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Hello and welcome to the Distributive ENote. Our monthly newsletter will provide events, news and information related to measuring and managing systems, software and IT projects.
Also, this ENote provides information about DataDrill, Distributive's market leading performance measurement solution. Distributive Management's DataDrill simplifies and speeds the use of measurement as a tool for getting to market sooner, raising product quality and reducing the risk associated with product development.
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Webinar Event:
If You Value Decision Making, Then You Need Valuable Information
How To Identify "Accurate" Information Needs for Managing and Controlling Software and Systems
Does your organization just use the data that is available to make decisions? Or maybe managers use their "gut" to make key project decisions. Do you have a metrics or measurement process but no one is using it? Would it surprise you to learn that most software companies have never systematically identified what information they need to make their critial business decisions?
In this webinar, you will learn techniques for identifying what information is needed to monitor and control your development processes. This webinar will show how to find these information needs and how to specifiy them so they are suitable for organizational-grade decision. Finally, all information needs are defined, organized and demonstrated using DataDrill, the industry's most powerful solution for effective information delivery.
Common types of information needs that will be explored:
- Identify Information Needs for Current Management Practices
- Identify Measurements of "Requirements"
- Identify Risks That Impacted Previous Programs
- Measure What You are Trying to Improve
- Identify Assumptions Used in Preparing the Project Plan
- Identify the Information Needed to Satisfy Organizational Policy
Date: September 28, 2010 Time: 1:00pm EDT (GMT-5)
Duration: 1 Hour
Location: Your Desktop
Cost: Free
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WhitePaper: Focusing Measurement on the Information Needs of Managers
Establishing a measurement process has evolved from the days of "If it moves, count it", through goal-question-metric to today's information-needs based approach for identfying and defining what to measure. Measurement process guidance from ISO and Practical Software and Systems Measurement provides a robust and flexible framework for measurement, but sadly only identify the purpose of measurement as the "information needs" of managers. What are these information needs? This whitepaper describes simple techniques for identifying information needs within your organization; information needs that become the requirements of your measurement process and lead to a useful and effective measurement process.
Basic Measurement Process
To receive a copy of this whitepaper, simply click below:
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Use Our Expert to Define the Best Information Needs for You
The #1 New York Times bestseller book, The Happiness Project, maintains that, "You manage what you measure." It is as true for happiness initiatives as business initiatives.
The fact is that measuring a value (or not) changes the way we act on it. In her blog, The Happiness Project, author Gretchen Rubin says, "So figure out something you'd like to change in your life - more of something good or less of something bad. Then figure our a very concrete way to measure it and to hold yourself accountable for living up to it."
Precisely the same principles can be put to work for your organization or project. Identify the key indicators of happiness according to your company's goals and begin tracking them. What gets measured - gets done!
But where to begin, exactly? What should you measure? What to count and which graphs to use: If only you had an expert to ask...Visit our website:
DataDrill EXPRESS Indicator Expert
P.S. Don't forget to step back once and a while and check if the result you are getting is the one you want. Prevent headachy mismatches between you goals and your metrics by measuring what you want to manage.
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