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The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model

Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software

By: Barry Boehm,Jo Ann Lane,Supannika Koolmanojwong,Richard N. Turner

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The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model

Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software

By: Barry Boehm,Jo Ann Lane,Supannika Koolmanojwong,Richard N. Turner

“The title makes a huge promise: a way to divide commitment into increments that are both meetable (good news for developers) and meaningful (good news for managers and stakeholders). And the book makes good on that promise.” –Tom DeMarco, Principal, The Atlantic Systems Guild, author of Peopleware, Deadline, and Slack “I am seriously impressed with this ICSM book. Besides being conceptually sound, I was amazed by the sheer number of clear and concise characterizations of issues, relationships, and solutions. I wanted to take a yellow highlighter to it until I realized I’d be highlighting most of the book.” –Curt Hibbs, Chief Agile Evangelist, Boeing Use the ICSM to Generate and Evolve Your Life-Cycle Process Assets to Best Fit Your Organization’s Diverse and Changing Needs Many systems development practitioners find traditional “one-size-fits-all” processes inadequate for the growing complexity, diversity, dynamism, and assurance needs of their products and services. The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM) responds with a principle- and risk-based framework for defining and evolving your project and corporate process assets, avoiding pitfalls and disruption, and leveraging opportunities to increase value. This book explains ICSM’s framework of decision criteria and principles, and shows how to apply them through relevant examples. It demonstrates ICSM’s potential for reducing rework and technical debt, improving maintainability, handling emergent requirements, and raising assurance levels. Its coverage includes What makes a system development successful ICSM’s goals, principles, and usage as a process-generation framework Creating and evolving processes to match your risks and opportunities Integrating your current practices and adopting ICSM concepts incrementally, focusing on your greatest needs and opportunities About the Website: Download the evolving ICSM guidelines, subprocesses, templates, tools, white papers, and academic support resources at csse.usc.edu/ICSM.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0132882973

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With Her in Ourland

Sequel to Herland

By: Mary Jo Deegan,Michael R. Hill

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With Her in Ourland

Sequel to Herland

By: Mary Jo Deegan,Michael R. Hill

Two works in one, this volume contains the full text of With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as an illuminating sociological analysis by Mary Jo Deegan with the assistance of Michael R. Hill. Ourland is the sequel to Gilman's acclaimed feminist utopian novel Herland; both were published in her journal, The Forerunner, in 1915 and 1916. Ourland resumes the adventures of ^IHerland^R's protagonists, Ellador and Van, but turns from utopian fantasy to a challenging analysis of contemporary social fissures in his land, or the real world. The republication of Herland as a separate novel in 1979 revived critical interest in Gilman's work but truncated the larger aims implicit in the ^IHerland/Ourland^R saga, leaving an erroneous understanding of Gilman's other/better half of the story, in which it is suggested that strong women can resocialize men to be nurturant and cooperative. Gilman's choice of a sexually integrated society in With Her in Ourland provides us with her answer to her ideal society, but her foray into a woman-only society as a corrective to a male dominated one is a controversial option. The challenging message of Ourland, however, does not impede the pleasure of reading it as a novel. Though known more for her fiction today, Gilman in her time was a recognized and accomplished sociologist who admired Lester F. Ward and frequently visited Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull-House. The male protagonist in Herland/Ourland, Van, is a sociologist, used by Gilman as a foil on which to skewer the assumptions and practices of patriarchal sociology. The interpretation presented here, which adopts a sociological viewpoint, is invaluable reading for scholars and students of sociology, American women's studies, and utopian literature.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313373604

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9780313373602

Christmas with Southern Living 1983

By: Jo Voce

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Christmas with Southern Living 1983

By: Jo Voce

Recipes and craft patterns.

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156

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Oxmoor House

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0848705432

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The Transportation Research Board, 1920â¬"2020

Everyone Interested Is Invited

By: Sarah Jo Peterson

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The Transportation Research Board, 1920â¬"2020

Everyone Interested Is Invited

By: Sarah Jo Peterson

In 1920, state highway engineers, federal officials, and experts from academia were among a small group convened by the National Academy of Sciences to confront the problems of the highway. The public was entrusting them with billions of dollars for good roads, and World War I had proved the feasibility of moving freight long distances by truck. But even new highways were crumbling. They turned to research for solutions. The founders of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the generations that followed took on problems such as safety, social equity, and environmental issues. They embraced "total transportation," adapting their highway research model to urban transportation and then applying it to rail, marine, and aviation modes. Today TRB convenes thousands of researchers, practitioners, and administrators every year to advise the government, solve practical problems, foster innovation, and stimulate new research. In The Transportation Research Board, 1920â€"2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited, Sarah Jo Peterson tells the story of how people and institutions created and have continued to shape TRB. In a compelling narrative accompanied by more than 150 images exploring the history of transportation and research, she argues that TRB can be best understood as an infrastructureâ€"one that people purposely designed and devotedly maintained. Despite TRB's institutional complexity, its unique mission, the vast collection of acronyms in its orbit, and the significant changes to the organization in its first 100 years, Dr. Peterson provides a view from 30,000 feet, deftly describing the social, political, and economic context in which transportation (and TRB) functioned. At the same time, she attends to details of the key events, individuals, and human motivations that shaped TRB's evolution. The author's skills as a historian, her experience in the transportation field, and her manifest ability to tell a good story have produced a book that transportation professionals of all stripesâ€"and, for that matter, anyone interested in the history of transportation in the United Statesâ€"should find both engaging and informative and an essential addition to their library.

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National Academies Press

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0309493749

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9780309493741

Exiles and Communities

Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness

By: Jo Anne Pagano

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Exiles and Communities

Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness

By: Jo Anne Pagano

This book is a meditation on the profession of teaching from the perspective of a woman whose intellectual identity as teacher and writer is inseparable from her whole life as a woman. Pagano brings the methods and insights of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism to bear on a reading of her own educational practice in order to reach a transformed understanding of the educational enterprise. She raises serious questions: How are we implicated in what we know? What actions are required by our knowledge? Responses to these questions are given with probing analyses of practice, ethics, gender, knowledge, and curriculum. In Exiles and Communities: Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness Jo Anne Pagano teaches us how to teach as she sustains identity in transformation and relinquishes neither the world nor other people to thought.

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State University of New York Press

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1438415338

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Beyond Technology's Promise

An Examination of Children's Educational Computing at Home

By: Joseph B. Giacquinta,Jo Anne Bauer,Jane E. Levin

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Beyond Technology's Promise

An Examination of Children's Educational Computing at Home

By: Joseph B. Giacquinta,Jo Anne Bauer,Jane E. Levin

This book, first published in 1994, examines how children use home computers, and proposes steps to facilitate a better educational use of available technology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521407842

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Stepmothers

Keeping it Together with Your Husband and His Kids

By: Merry Bloch Jones,Jo Ann Schiller

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Stepmothers

Keeping it Together with Your Husband and His Kids

By: Merry Bloch Jones,Jo Ann Schiller

Based on interviews with fifty-two stepmothers, a guide to surviving in this often uncomfortable role discusses the realities of changes in routines and lifestlyles, territorial squabbles, co-parenting, and more.

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Carol Publishing Corporation

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1559721200

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Never Say Never

By: Jo-Ann Power

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Never Say Never

By: Jo-Ann Power

When his ex-wife, Colleen, abducts his only child and much-loved heir, three-year-old Ford, Bryce Falconer, the twelfth earl of Aldersworth, recruits Colleen's sister Augusta to aid in his search--a search that leads them to much more than they were looking for. The third and final book in the "American Beauties" trilogy.

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0671024221

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9780671024222

Remembrance

By: Jo-Ann Power

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Remembrance

By: Jo-Ann Power

When Stephanie Douglass inherits a Georgetown mansion--complete with ghosts--a recurring dream becomes a daytime nightmare, and a mysterious journey back in time to the war-torn Washington of the 1860s leads to a life that spans two lifetimes.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786001011

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9780786001019

Prime Time

By: Barbara Cummings,Jo-Ann Power

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Prime Time

By: Barbara Cummings,Jo-Ann Power

In the glitzy tradition of the novels of Jackie Collins, the author of Frontier Fire offers a sizzling story of power and passion. The DCC Cable Network: where beautiful on-camera personalities and brilliant backstage minds battle for supremacy in work and in love--and where marital infidelities, steamy affairs, and back-stabbing rivalries heat up the studios and the bedsheets.

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Pinnacle Books

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1558176675

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A Husband for Christmas

By: Jo Ann Algermissen

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A Husband for Christmas

By: Jo Ann Algermissen

Barbara Stone can't believe her wedding-wary eyes. Her boss is getting married in less than three weeks to someone with the initials S.E.C.! Then he reveals the identity of his mystery bride, and Barbara knows she's in trouble. Not only does S.E.C. stand for secretary, that secretary is her!

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Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Yours Truly 90s

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0373520816

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Exiles and Communities

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Beyond Technology's Promise

Beyond Technology's Promise

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Never Say Never

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