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Collaborative Process Improvement Celeste Labrunda Yeakley

Collaborative Process Improvement By Celeste Labrunda Yeakley

Collaborative Process Improvement by Celeste Labrunda Yeakley


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Summary

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.

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Collaborative Process Improvement: With Examples from the Software World by Celeste Labrunda Yeakley

This practical, user-friendly handbook specifically addresses software companies that are interested in implementing effective improvement processes into the daily work life of every employee. A wealth of checklists, templates, exercises, tips, and pitfalls to avoid make it easy for readers to integrate quality awareness into their organization's day-to-day processes at every level.

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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)

About Celeste Labrunda Yeakley

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures.

Preface.

How to Read This Book.

Introduction.

Special Thanks and Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. Your World-Understanding Your Situation and Preparing First Steps.

Chapter 2. Welcome to the World-Establishing Advocates and Champions.

Chapter 3. Drawing Your Map-Initiating your CPI Program.

Chapter 4. World Vision-Training the Organization.

Chapter 5. World Views-Addressing the Capital Q.

Chapter 6. Around the World-Acknowledging Cultural Diversity.

Chapter 7. Move Your World-Managing Change.

Chapter 8. Rock Your World-Encouraging Process Perpetual Motion.

Chapter 9. Your World of Influence-Sneezing and Spreading the Improvement Virus.

Chapter 10. World Climate-Checking for Vital Signs.

Chapter 11. World Health-Evaluating Progress.

Chapter 12. World News-Rewarding and Recognizing Work.

Chapter 13. Modern World-Building Meaningful Quality Pictures.

Chapter 14. One World-Uniting Your Change Maps with the New World View.

Definitions.

Acronyms.

References and Resources.

Index.

Additional information

NLS9780470084601
9780470084601
047008460X
Collaborative Process Improvement: With Examples from the Software World by Celeste Labrunda Yeakley
New
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2007-04-05
200
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