The Resource Management And Capacity Planning Handbook A Guide To Maximizing The Value Of Your Limited People Resources

Author : Jerry Manas
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071836195
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook: A Guide to Maximizing the Value of Your Limited People Resources written by Jerry Manas and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO MAXIMIZING LIMITED RESOURCES TO INNOVATE AND GROW Trying to accomplish too much with too few resources has become almost customary in business today. More often than not, though, all that we "accomplish" is delayed projects, mass confusion, and missed opportunities--not the achievement of business goals. The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook helps you tackle the critical challenges of resource management and capacity planning head on by providing a proven tool for making the leap from chaos to control: the Capacity Quadrant, a framework for addressing visibility, prioritization, optimization of existing resources, and integrated planning and governance. The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook demystifies the complexities of resource capacity and demand management and offers clear ways for maximizing your limited resources to drive business growth and sustainability. This groundbreaking guide includes: The latest benchmark data from a comprehensive study of resource management Case studies from organizations that have used the book's methods with great success Tools for overcoming common barriers and making decisions involving time capture, resource assignments, and competing priorities Recommendations on ownership of the organization's resource management and capacity planning functions Considerations for addressing the human side of resource management and capacity planning The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook gives you the information, insight, and proven methods to take your company where it has never been before. PRAISE FOR THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY PLANNING HANDBOOK "There are lots of leadership books, scores of human resources books, and plenty of project and portfolio management books. This is the first book dedicated to what is essentially the drivetrain of organizations--the effective use of its people toward its most important activities. This is Manas's best and most ambitious book yet." -- Judith E. Glaser, CEO, Benchmark Communications, Inc.; Chairman of The Creating WE Institute; and author of the bestselling Conversational Intelligence "Jerry's book and the Capacity Quadrant model he outlines give you a realistic view of your workforce and an approach to maximizing the 'people power' in your organization that's easy to understand and apply. It could very well help transform your company and make you a hero in the process!" -- Dave Garrett, President and CEO, ProjectManagement.com "Unlike lifeless products, people skills and capacity are difficult to measure and vary widely between 'good' days and 'bad' days. Manas steps nimbly through this minefield with solid evidence and practical advice--all laced together in an easy-to-read style." -- R. Max Wideman FCSCE, FEIC, FICE, FPMI "It didn't take me too long into reading when I realized how much we really needed this book. I wish we had it when we started implementing Resource Capacity Planning and Investment Planning. I will make sure all of my staff members have copies." -- Gary Merrifield, PMP, Manager, IT Project Delivery and Quality Assurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana "A great guide to the most important topic in management: how to maximize your limited people resources." -- Hans Heuschkel, Senior Business Intelligence Analyst/Project Manager, Swiss insurance company

Author : Susan M. Houston
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000026183
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effective Lifecycle Management of Healthcare Applications written by Susan M. Houston and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of software applications within healthcare organizations has made it essential to have defined methodologies and formal processes for the management of the entire Information Technology (IT) portfolio. Utilizing a portfolio management framework throughout an application’s lifecycle will provide the necessary structure to ensure that all new applications are properly evaluated, and, once implemented, remain relevant while continuing to meet organizational requirements. While an organization may have a few large "organization-wide" systems such as the Electronic Health Record (EHR), lab or radiology systems, they also have a large quantity of other clinical, administrative, and research systems. Some larger organizations now have hundreds of software applications to support and manage. The IT staff must be able to implement new requests while still maintaining the current application portfolio. Utilizing a standard repeatable process will help to manage these large portfolios of software applications. This book reviews the management of applications throughout their lifecycle, from initial request through disposition. Best practices dictate that every newly requested application undergoes analysis followed by an approval decision from the organization’s governance committee. The initial implementation project must include activities to prepare for ongoing support while ensuring the application is compliant with all security, privacy, and architecture requirements. An application spends years in operations and maintenance where changes occur regularly through configuration and release management, or additional projects. The cycle continues until disposition. Understanding when to dispose of an application is just as important as deciding when to implement a new one. A defined process for disposing of an application ensures all parts are properly removed or destroyed.

Author : Adam Grummit
Publisher : Van Haren
ISBN 13 : 9087535198
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capacity Management - A Practitioner Guide written by Adam Grummit and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capacity Management is described in most key ITSM frameworks: ITIL, ISO 20000 Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and the Application Service Library (ASL) all note the importance of Capacity Management. This major title meets the need for an in-depth practical guide to this critical process. Written and reviewed by some of the world’s most respected experts in this field it shows how Capacity Management best practice can support provision of a consistent, acceptable service level at a known and controlled cost. Practical advice covers the essential control of two balances: Supply versus demand and resources versus cost. In times of mean, frugal economic measures, it is essential to focus on those practices that are effective and yield practical results. In enlightened times of sustainability, it is also a requirement to find solutions that satisfy the criteria for 'greenness'. This excellent title shows how Capacity Management works not only within an IT environment but also why it is pivotal in meeting high profile business demands. Aligns with ISO/IEC 20000 and ITIL® ­ISO/IEC lists a set of required capacity management deliverables ­ITIL outlines what should be done in capacity management ­this book starts to describe how to do it Covers details of what capacity management is all about: ­what is capacity management ­why do it – benefits and cost-benefit analysis ­how to do it – data-flows and activities ­who does it – roles and perspectives ­implementation, maintenance, improvement, tools Provides comprehensive templates and checklists: ­objectives, interfaces and data-flows, sub-practices and activities ­metrics, application sizing parameters, data for modelling ­deliverables, reports, CMMI levels, KPIs, risk matrix ­sample capacity plan

Author : John Allspaw
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596551835
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Capacity Planning written by John Allspaw and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure. The Art of Capacity Planning is written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, now owned by Yahoo! John Allspaw combines personal anecdotes from many phases of Flickr's growth with insights from his colleagues in many other industries to give you solid guidelines for measuring your growth, predicting trends, and making cost-effective preparations. Topics include: Evaluating tools for measurement and deployment Capacity analysis and prediction for storage, database, and application servers Designing architectures to easily add and measure capacity Handling sudden spikes Predicting exponential and explosive growth How cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy In this book, Allspaw draws on years of valuable experience, starting from the days when Flickr was relatively small and had to deal with the typical growth pains and cost/performance trade-offs of a typical company with a Web presence. The advice he offers in The Art of Capacity Planning will not only help you prepare for explosive growth, it will save you tons of grief.

Author : Gerardus Blokdyk
Publisher : 5starcooks
ISBN 13 : 9781489145536
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capacity Planning Complete Self-Assessment Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are accountability and ownership for Capacity Planning clearly defined? Does Capacity Planning analysis isolate the fundamental causes of problems? What are specific Capacity Planning Rules to follow? What is our Capacity Planning Strategy? Is maximizing Capacity Planning protection the same as minimizing Capacity Planning loss? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Capacity Planning assessment. Featuring 619 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Capacity Planning improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Capacity Planning projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Capacity Planning and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Capacity Planning Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Capacity Planning areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Capacity Planning Self-Assessment downloadable resource, containing all 619 questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book. This helps with ease of (re-)use and enables you to import the questions in your preferred Management or Survey Tool. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help. This Self-Assessment has been approved by The Art of Service as part of a lifelong learning and Self-Assessment program and as a component of maintenance of certification. Optional other Self-Assessments are available. For more information, visit http: //theartofservice.com

Author : Freda Matassa
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856047016
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum Collections Management written by Freda Matassa and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark publication is the first to draw together all aspects of museum collections management in one handbook. It is designed for anyone with responsibility for a cultural collection and covers everything a collections manager needs to know. It describes professional practice in managing cultural objects and works of art, whatever the size and nature of the collection. The book includes essential information on: Legal aspects of collections Ethical issues such as due diligence and immunity from seizure Up to date concerns such as sustainability, crossing borders and financial constraints Loans, acquisitions, inventory and movement. The book describes all collections management procedures in a simple step-by-step process and is clear and easy to use with all procedures based on international museum practice. Examples of real forms, policies and documents drawn from major museums are included throughout the text and act as guides for any transaction. Readership: Packed full of practical information, advice and good practice, this will be essential reading for all museum professionals, curators of private collections and museum studies students.

Author : Gerardus Blokdyk
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546830245
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capacity Planning Complete Self-assessment Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are accountability and ownership for Capacity Planning clearly defined? Does Capacity Planning analysis isolate the fundamental causes of problems? What are specific Capacity Planning Rules to follow? What is our Capacity Planning Strategy? Is maximizing Capacity Planning protection the same as minimizing Capacity Planning loss? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Capacity Planning assessment. Featuring 619 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Capacity Planning improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Capacity Planning projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Capacity Planning and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Capacity Planning Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Capacity Planning areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Capacity Planning Self-Assessment downloadable resource, containing all 619 questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book. This helps with ease of (re-)use and enables you to import the questions in your preferred Management or Survey Tool. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help. This Self-Assessment has been approved by The Art of Service as part of a lifelong learning and Self-Assessment program and as a component of maintenance of certification. Optional other Self-Assessments are available. For more information, visit http://theartofservice.com

Author : Michael Armstrong
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749459905
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armstrong's Essential Human Resource Management Practice written by Michael Armstrong and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armstrong's Essential Human Resource Management Practice provides a complete overview of the practices and processes fundamental to managing people. The text provides a thorough introduction to the core areas of HR including: people resourcing, performance management, learning and development and rewarding people. It also examines the contribution of HR to organizational aims and objectives and how it is integrated within the business. The book is accompanied by online resources for both lecturers and students and adopts an increased focus on employee engagement, a concept which is becoming increasingly prominent in people management, but which is often presented as a mantra without being properly understood; this is examined in detail with reference to recent research. Michael Armstrong's original Handbook of Human Resource Management is the classic text for all those studying HR or who are entering the profession for the first time. In this new title Michael Armstrong provides a condensed text which has been rewritten with the non-HR student or professional in mind, describing and evaluating key HRM concepts such as: HRM itself; strategic HRM; the resource-based view; the choice between best practice and best fit; human capital measurement; motivation theory; emotional intelligence; the flexible firm; the learning organization; and financial rewards. Online supporting resources for this book include lecture slides, an instructor's manual, case examples and a literature review.

Author : James A. Constantin
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Resource Management written by James A. Constantin and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. management seems to have fallen behind in its competition with managements in other countries. This book identifies the nature of the managerial problem--key oversights in managing crucial resources--and gives specific guidelines for identifyinf internal and external resources and maximizing these resources for the overall benefit of the firm.

Author : Dominic Cappello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781707879090
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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