Books

Learning never exhausts the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci

ShareDynamics founder Joseph Raynus has written two well-received books, one on project management/metrics and an earlier book on software quality using CMM.

Getting people to invest in your product ideas is easier said than done. Practically, investors and businesses can be very picky about the type of investments they go for. Even getting them to streamline their existing ideas can be an uphill battle.

  • Are you tired of getting your business ideas shot down?
  • Do you feel that you have viable investment ideas but just can’t get investors?

Then this workbook is perfect for you. Learn how to develop successful business cases that investors can’t pick apart. By applying the Business Case Canvas methodology, you can highlight the level of thorough analysis, research and effort you’re putting in your business cases.

In this book, we will discuss the importance of agility and how it affects the solutions that are being delivered by an organization. We will also talk about how a blend of strategic innovation, visionary leadership, and organizational agility go hand in hand to ensure the success of an organization. Enterprise agility is not a far-fetched possibility. Once the problems of the organization are identified, with the right tools and effort, the agility, efficiency, and effectiveness of an organization, as well as the processes that the success of the organization are based on, can all be maximized. This book will broaden your thinking and will help you expand your horizons.

The managerial practices that successfully drove industry for decades have become insufficient to support the rapidly changing business landscape. Companies around the world are being challenged to improve performance, reshape operations, and adapt swiftly to new opportunities. With an abundance of improvement methodologies and frameworks like BPM, BPI, Six Sigma, and Lean, many questions where to begin.

This book offers a practical method for building a measurement framework that will help you gain the ability to monitor events and continuously refine them using feedback loops for analysis, goal-setting and strategy adjustment. Linking the framework in “Improving Business Process Performance” to your organization’s overall strategy aligns every project or program with defensible achievement and information that clearly supports a bigger-picture dynamic strategy.

A step-by-step approach for improving your software development process, using the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM). This book gives software project managers and administrators a real-world understanding of software process improvement and use in each stage of the development lifecycle. Process definition, the effective use of software metrics, and common sense software project management along with CMM specifics delivers an integrated approach.

Articles & Presentations

This presentation introduces a practical framework for developing implementation strategies and planning programs as a two-way process that ensures alignment with business strategy and goals as guiding objectives for solution/program planning and execution to achieve expected outcomes. Participants will explore a step-by-step approach to designing programs using Strategic Program Design Canvas that provides structure and visual guidance for creating a strong, strategic foundation.

The approval and funding of programs within any organization, generally requires the preparation of a business case. The business case is more than just financial justification and includes answers to questions like “Why the project should be undertaken?”, “What is a business problem?”, “How will the business issue be solved?”, “What are the benefits to the organization?”, “How much money, resources and time will be needed to deliver the solution?”, “What are the risks, assumptions and constraints?”. This presentation introduces the approach and a thought process that will help you understand what is really expected from the business case you developing and will show you how your strategic thinking can be complemented by a practical framework to organize what can otherwise be an amorphous process.
The approval and funding of programs within any organization, generally requires the preparation of a business case. The business case is more than just financial justification and includes answers to questions like “Why the project should be undertaken?”, “What is a business problem?”, “How will the business issue be solved?”, “What are the benefits to the organization?”, “How much money, resources and time will be needed to deliver the solution?”, “What are the risks, assumptions and constraints?”. This presentation introduces the approach and a thought process that will help you understand what is really expected from the business case you developing and will show you how your strategic thinking can be complemented by a practical framework to organize what can otherwise be an amorphous process.
The approval and funding of programs within any organization, generally requires the preparation of a business case. The business case is more than just financial justification and includes answers to questions like “Why the project should be undertaken?”, “What is a business problem?”, “How will the business issue be solved?”, “What are the benefits to the organization?”, “How much money, resources and time will be needed to deliver the solution?”, “What are the risks, assumptions and constraints?”. This presentation introduces the approach and a thought process that will help you understand what is really expected from the business case you developing and will show you how your strategic thinking can be complemented by a practical framework to organize what can otherwise be an amorphous process.
The approval and funding of programs within any organization, generally requires the preparation of a business case. The business case is more than just financial justification and includes answers to questions like “Why the project should be undertaken?”, “What is a business problem?”, “How will the business issue be solved?”, “What are the benefits to the organization?”, “How much money, resources and time will be needed to deliver the solution?”, “What are the risks, assumptions and constraints?”. This presentation introduces the approach and a thought process that will help you understand what is really expected from the business case you developing and will show you how your strategic thinking can be complemented by a practical framework to organize what can otherwise be an amorphous process.
The approval and funding of programs within any organization, generally requires the preparation of a business case. The business case is more than just financial justification and includes answers to questions like “Why the project should be undertaken?”, “What is a business problem?”, “How will the business issue be solved?”, “What are the benefits to the organization?”, “How much money, resources and time will be needed to deliver the solution?”, “What are the risks, assumptions and constraints?”. This presentation introduces the approach and a thought process that will help you understand what is really expected from the business case you developing and will show you how your strategic thinking can be complemented by a practical framework to organize what can otherwise be an amorphous process.