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Effectively Define and Gather Your Business Requirements Today!
Many programming systems today are designed and constructed before business requirements are completed and finalized. Without a proper foundation, these systems will eventually crumble. Streamlining Business Requirements: The XCellR8™ Approach provides project managers and business analysts with the foundation, principles, and steps needed to document business requirements in an accurate and efficient manner. Author Gerrie Caudle introduces the XCellR8™ approach, an analysis method used to gather business requirements in a structured, well-defined set of steps.
This book offers comprehensive framework needed to:
• Effectively analyze business requirements
• Properly identify business events
• Prepare for a requirements session
• Better understand the “big picture”
Many programming systems today are designed and constructed before business requirements are completed and finalized. Without a proper foundation, these systems will eventually crumble. Streamlining Business Requirements: The XCellR8™ Approach provides project managers and business analysts with the foundation, principles, and steps needed to document business requirements in an accurate and efficient manner. Author Gerrie Caudle introduces the XCellR8™ approach, an analysis method used to gather business requirements in a structured, well-defined set of steps.
This book offers comprehensive framework needed to:
• Effectively analyze business requirements
• Properly identify business events
• Prepare for a requirements session
• Better understand the “big picture”
Perform Contracting Successfully!
This master reference — in its fifth edition — contains everything you need to know about government pricing rules and regulations in one easy-to-use volume.Guide to Contract Pricing: Cost and Price Analysis for Contractors, Subcontractors, and Government Agencies, Fifth Edition, explains how the government conducts business and walks you through every step of the contracting process. This fully updated edition includes a new chapter on the role of auditors in contract pricing as well as five new detailed appendices.
You'll be able to:
+ Master the steps of the sealed bid process
+ Improve your skills at evaluating bids, proposals, and quotations
+ Perfect your ability to analyze direct and indirect labor costs
+ Improve your chances for securing a fair and reasonable price
This master reference — in its fifth edition — contains everything you need to know about government pricing rules and regulations in one easy-to-use volume.Guide to Contract Pricing: Cost and Price Analysis for Contractors, Subcontractors, and Government Agencies, Fifth Edition, explains how the government conducts business and walks you through every step of the contracting process. This fully updated edition includes a new chapter on the role of auditors in contract pricing as well as five new detailed appendices.
You'll be able to:
+ Master the steps of the sealed bid process
+ Improve your skills at evaluating bids, proposals, and quotations
+ Perfect your ability to analyze direct and indirect labor costs
+ Improve your chances for securing a fair and reasonable price
Performance Networks
2009
Problems cross boundaries and so must solutions. Multi-agency, cross-boundary coordination and partnerships are needed to solve today's problems. These networks coordinate, communicate, and leverage resources and best practices to deliver measurable results across traditional agency boundaries. Performance Networks: Transforming Governance for the 21st Century provides roadmaps and guidelines for executives, managers, and team leaders who are accountable for results in the new world of interagency networks that aim to deliver measurable results across traditional boundaries. The author presents ten “views” of performance networks, adapted from current, successful, multi-agency partnerships; these views provide specific guidance on transformational strategic planning to deliver better results.
Working across government agencies and boundaries is difficult at any level of government, but it may be the only solution for today's problems. Performance Networks: Transforming Governance for the 21st Century offers the public manager a valuable new governance tool. This resource provides a practical approach to:
• Understanding the history and workings of government-based networks
• Establishing multi-agency, cross boundary partnerships and making them work
• Improving citizen engagement
Working across government agencies and boundaries is difficult at any level of government, but it may be the only solution for today's problems. Performance Networks: Transforming Governance for the 21st Century offers the public manager a valuable new governance tool. This resource provides a practical approach to:
• Understanding the history and workings of government-based networks
• Establishing multi-agency, cross boundary partnerships and making them work
• Improving citizen engagement
Find the Answers You Need to Comply with the Prompt Payment Act!
It can be challenging for federal agencies to comply with the Prompt Payment Act. Although the basic rules are simple, they can be difficult to interpret and apply properly — until now. Designed as a reference, The Prompt Payment Act Answer Book lays out the prompt payment rules in a question-and-answer format, enabling readers to find answers to hundreds of specific questions. Practitioners will find the information they need to get and stay in compliance with the Prompt Payment Act and will benefit from real-world examples they can apply in everyday operations.
• Government payment personnel: Get advice on how to structure your processes to comply with prompt payment rules, avoid negative audit findings, and deal with contractor inquiries about interest entitlements
• Auditors: Structure your prompt payment audits and pertinent information effectively
• Contractors and vendors: Verify that your invoices are being handled properly, determine whether you are due interest penalties, and learn how to appeal improper payment amounts
Plus! Two quantitative sections show you how to calculate payment due dates and interest penalties, and two quizzes help reinforce learning.
It can be challenging for federal agencies to comply with the Prompt Payment Act. Although the basic rules are simple, they can be difficult to interpret and apply properly — until now. Designed as a reference, The Prompt Payment Act Answer Book lays out the prompt payment rules in a question-and-answer format, enabling readers to find answers to hundreds of specific questions. Practitioners will find the information they need to get and stay in compliance with the Prompt Payment Act and will benefit from real-world examples they can apply in everyday operations.
• Government payment personnel: Get advice on how to structure your processes to comply with prompt payment rules, avoid negative audit findings, and deal with contractor inquiries about interest entitlements
• Auditors: Structure your prompt payment audits and pertinent information effectively
• Contractors and vendors: Verify that your invoices are being handled properly, determine whether you are due interest penalties, and learn how to appeal improper payment amounts
Plus! Two quantitative sections show you how to calculate payment due dates and interest penalties, and two quizzes help reinforce learning.
Avoid Violations of the Antideficiency Act!
Antideficiency Act (ADA) violations within both the financial and audit communities are now at an all-time high. Violations often result from a lack of knowledge about what is and what is not permissible under the law. The Antideficiency Act Answer Book is an easy-to-understand question-and-answer tool that guides you through all the rules associated with the Antideficiency Act and helps you detect and report violations in a timely manner.
• Covers all aspects of the Antideficiency Act, from its history to common violations, penalties for violation, and reporting requirements
• Includes the tools you need to help avoid Antideficiency Act violations
• Plus! Includes an analysis of all the ADA reports collected by the Government Accountability Office, summarized by agency, appropriation, amount, and type of violation.
Antideficiency Act (ADA) violations within both the financial and audit communities are now at an all-time high. Violations often result from a lack of knowledge about what is and what is not permissible under the law. The Antideficiency Act Answer Book is an easy-to-understand question-and-answer tool that guides you through all the rules associated with the Antideficiency Act and helps you detect and report violations in a timely manner.
• Covers all aspects of the Antideficiency Act, from its history to common violations, penalties for violation, and reporting requirements
• Includes the tools you need to help avoid Antideficiency Act violations
• Plus! Includes an analysis of all the ADA reports collected by the Government Accountability Office, summarized by agency, appropriation, amount, and type of violation.
Combat the Deadly Sins of Project Management!
Project management is a tough business. Not only must project managers contend with schedules, budgets, and a host of stakeholder demands, but they must also deal with sometimes vexing human behaviors, such as whining, indecision, opposition, inflexibility, complacency, and tunnel vision, to name a few. Projects can be negatively impacted by common "sins" that hinder, stall, or throw the project off track.
In The 77 Deadly Sins of Project Management, the contributors focus on each "deadly sin" and probe its manifestations and consequences for projects. By sharing their personal experiences, as well as some historical events, the contributors spotlight the effects and costs — both financial and human — of failing to get a handle on these sins and reign them in. Through anecdotes and case studies, The 77 Deadly Sins of Project Management will help you better understand how to execute the myriad aspects of today's projects.
• Identify danger signs and solutions for each "sin"
• Learn proven methods for tackling project mishaps
• Gain practical and hands-on information from seasoned professionals
• Keep a variety of "sins" from derailing your project
BONUS! Each book comes with a "77 Deadly Sins of Project Management" poster!
Project management is a tough business. Not only must project managers contend with schedules, budgets, and a host of stakeholder demands, but they must also deal with sometimes vexing human behaviors, such as whining, indecision, opposition, inflexibility, complacency, and tunnel vision, to name a few. Projects can be negatively impacted by common "sins" that hinder, stall, or throw the project off track.
In The 77 Deadly Sins of Project Management, the contributors focus on each "deadly sin" and probe its manifestations and consequences for projects. By sharing their personal experiences, as well as some historical events, the contributors spotlight the effects and costs — both financial and human — of failing to get a handle on these sins and reign them in. Through anecdotes and case studies, The 77 Deadly Sins of Project Management will help you better understand how to execute the myriad aspects of today's projects.
• Identify danger signs and solutions for each "sin"
• Learn proven methods for tackling project mishaps
• Gain practical and hands-on information from seasoned professionals
• Keep a variety of "sins" from derailing your project
BONUS! Each book comes with a "77 Deadly Sins of Project Management" poster!
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