Collaborative Process Improvement - Yeakley, Celeste Labrunda;Fiebrich, Jeffrey D.
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The battle cry "Do more with less" has become "Work Hard, Work Smart!" This book will help you work smart by providing an easy to understand framework where you can quickly develop Software Quality advocates throughout your organization. These easy methods will accelerate process improvements for your organization.
"Masterfully written by Yeakley and Fiebrich, this book, Collaborative Process Improvement, offers refreshing encouragement in a worldly approach that transcends boundaries of functional processes, and provides many metaphors which may be used in human relations." -Salvador…mehr

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The battle cry "Do more with less" has become "Work Hard, Work Smart!" This book will help you work smart by providing an easy to understand framework where you can quickly develop Software Quality advocates throughout your organization. These easy methods will accelerate process improvements for your organization.
"Masterfully written by Yeakley and Fiebrich, this book, Collaborative Process Improvement, offers refreshing encouragement in a worldly approach that transcends boundaries of functional processes, and provides many metaphors which may be used in human relations."
-Salvador SeBasco, Literary Director and host of the INSIDE VIEWTM show, on CNN affiliate station KNLE

The complete and practical handbook to successfully implement quality awareness at any software company

Collaborative Process Improvement specifically addresses software companies that are interested in addressing quality in human terms. Using Collaborative Process Improvement techniques builds effective processes to deliver quality products; it helps readers relate to what quality means to the end-user and provides the essential tools and methods to integrate the face of the customer into the organization's day-to-day processes. It comes complete with real-world examples that are practical and understandable to professionals in every role of a company.

Evolving from the authors' firsthand experiences in the software, semiconductor, and computer industries, Collaborative Process Improvement features practical methods that allow work to be individually mapped and analyzed, and then recombined to create an overall picture. It makes implementation easy with a wealth of checklists, templates, exercises, tips, and pitfalls to avoid. This hands-on guide covers:
_ Mapping your own world
_ Establishing Advocates and Champions
_ Training the organization
_ Acknowledging cultural diversity
_ Managing change
_ Encouraging continuous process improvement
_ Spreading the improvement initiative
_ Determining measures of evaluation and success
_ Rewarding process improvement successes
_ Seeing your company from the customer's eyes
_ Uniting individual and group maps

There's no need for expensive tools or programs-Collaborative Process Improvement is all that software companies need to effectively build improvement processes into the daily work life of every employee.
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Autorenporträt
Celeste LaBrunda Yeakley is an organizational leader with more than twenty years of experience in software/systems engineering and process improvement. Her career has spanned small to large companies including Motorola, Dialogic Corp. Dell Inc., and the University of Texas' Applied Research Laboratories. She is a broad-based team player with a proven skill set in focusing teams with creative and innovative business planning processes. She is accomplished in business strategy, business planning, team/project management (certificate in Software Project Management), software capability enhancements, and organizational leadership. Jeffrey D. Fiebrich is Software Quality Manager for Freescale Semiconductor. He is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and has received ASQ certification in Quality Auditing and in Software Quality Engineering. During his twenty-year career, he played significant roles in leading organizations in ISO, Capability Maturity Model, and Capability Maturity Model Integrated efforts in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Romania, Asia, and India.
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"..perfectly suitable for an audience with no or little previous knowledge...experienced readers can also find...reading it worthwhile." (Computing Reviews.com, June 22, 2007)