This book is about ecosystem mechanics and how to generate revenue through ecosystems and partnerships in the software industry. Topics include: economic foundations, value chains, business and partnering models as well as examples from Google, Microsoft, SAP, OpenSource among many others. Preface by Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG and Executive Member of BITKOM, the German Federal Association for IT, Tele-communications and New Media on "Software Clusters". Industry Comments: Tho...

Profit from the SAP Ecosystem: Thanks to over USD 23 billion in sales revenues, 355,000 customers and 87,000 employees, SAP is the world's 3rd largest software company. The SAP ecosystem is the largest business software community worldwide, with more than 15,000 official SAP partner companies, millions of experts and impressive KPIs like: - SAP "touches" more than USD 16 trillion of the world's B2C purchases - 74 percent of the world'stransaction revenues run thru SAP systems - SAP banking...

If you’re a tech company, the most dramatic effect of megatrends like cloud computing, managed services, and the rise of consumer technology won’t be felt in your company’s product line. The true disruption will be to your business model. Future customers won’t want to pay you high prices out of big “CapEx” budgets anymore. They will expect lower “cloud” prices paid from “OpEx” budgets only when and if they successfully consume the business value of your products. How your company reacts t...

Business analysis is the fastest growing field in business today and the role of the business analyst is both strategic and tactical. At the strategic level, the focus is on understanding the needs of the business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will enable the business to meet its goals. At the tactical level, the discipline originally emerged from work previously done by project managers, such as gathering high level business requirements, and work d...

Industry after industry is becoming technology-driven as software rapidly eats the world. As it spreads, so do complexity and opportunity. There are clear signs that the traditional B2B business model designed 125 years ago as a simple “make, sell, ship” approach for early manufacturing companies is no longer capable of delivering the full potential of high-tech and near-tech solutions. B4B seeks to frame what is possible in an age where suppliers are connected to their customers in real t...

“We need better approaches to understanding and managing software requirements, and Dean provides them in this book. He draws ideas from three very useful intellectual pools: classical management practices, Agile methods, and lean product development. By combining the strengths of these three approaches, he has produced something that works better than any one in isolation.”–From the Foreword by Don Reinertsen, President of Reinertsen & Associates; author of M...

As a seasoned project management consultant and instructor for the American Management Association, author Jack Ferraro has gained years of experience bridging the gap between project managers and functional managers to help countless teams improve their performance. Now, in this practical guide he shares engaging stories and lessons from his experiences and reveals the project management methodology and processes that will give you the advantage to ensure your projects’ success--and advan...

Successful project management requires organization, skill, and a systematic approach to ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget. For both small and large organizations, Idiot's Guides: Project Management, Sixth Edition, is fully updated and includes coverage on the Fifth Edition of PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). Covering all of the latest methodologies, this new, step-by-step edition includes updated assessment questions for the PMP certification e...

Project Management Metrics, KPIs,and DashboardsEnables readers to easily understand and implement essential strategies on measuring project management performanceProject Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards provides complete coverage of what metrics and KPIs are and how to use them effectively, offering comprehensive coverage of the different dashboard types, design issues, and applications that readers may come across during p...

Note: This pocket book is available in several languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch. This pocket guide is based on the PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition. It contains a summary of the PMBOK® Guide, to provide a quick introduction as well as a structured overview of this framework for project management. This pocket guide deals with the key issues and themes within project management and the PMBOK® Guide as follows: - Key terms and definitions in the project management profession - A ...

THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIMEAs a project manager, your job is to ensure that every project is completed on time and on budget, which involves defining your objectives, understanding the processes, and communicating with clarity to team members. It all comes down to mastering the language of project management. Perfect Phrases for Project Management includes hundreds of words and phrases that will help you:Clarify project goals...

Organizations are constantly struggling with complex development projects and are in search for a few, straightforward, and easy to learn methods to help deal with their problems. For this reason, more and more software companies are rapidly turning to Agile development to cope with fast changing markets, unknown or changing product requirements, borderless competition, and to solve complex problems. Yet little has been written to guide product managers through the transition in working wi...