“…Praise for Design Patterns in Ruby " Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly encounter. …”

“…Chapter 1: Introducing Visio 2010 Tell Me More Media 1.1 —About the Author and Why He Loves Visio Show Me Media 1.2 —Creating a Simple Visio Flowchart Show Me Media 1.3 —Panning and Zooming a Diagram Using the Status Bar and Pan & Zoom Window Show Me Media 1.4 —A Whirlwind Tour of Visio Shape Handles Chapter 2: Working Around the Diagram Show Me Media 2.1 —Quickly Sketching with Blank Drawings Show Me Media 2.2 —Understanding External Stencils, Local Masters, and the Document Stencil Show Me Media 2.3 —Adding and Manipulating New Pages Show Me Media 2.4 —Adding Background Pages Manually Tell Me More Media 2.5 —Making PowerPoint-Style Presentations with Visio Chapter 3: Organizing and Annotating Diagrams Show Me Media 3.1 —Organizing Shapes with Containers Show Me Media 3.2 —Creating Grouped Shapes Tell Me More Media 3.3 —When to Use Groups Show Me Media 3.4 —Adding Callouts to Shapes Show Me Media 3.5 —Cool Tricks with Legacy Callout Shapes Chapter 4: Connecting Shapes Show Me Media 4.1 —Basic Connecting in Visio 2010 Show Me Media 4.2 —Grand Tour of Connection Options Tell Me More Media 4.3 —Connector Begins and Ends: Structure vs. …”

“…Work from sample checklists, templates, project plans, and workflow documents to guide your planning process. Keep the Steps to Success on the minds of your project team. …”

“…After reading this book you will be able to · Get past the myths of software process improvement to focus on what’s truly practical · Identify and evaluate your best candidate process solutions · Objectively project the ROI achievable with IBM R UP and IBM Rational solutions · Develop funding models, business cases, and executive support · Recruit, staff, organize, and motivate your implementation team · Plan for effective integration, process alignment, and change management · Choose the right pilots, learn the right lessons, and develop effective adoption models · Move quickly to successful program-level implementation · Set maturity level goals for process and tool utilization · Map “End States” for both quantity and quality · Plan for training and mentoring–and understand the distinct role of each · Keep the momentum going after your implementation is complete Link to www.upmentors.com, where you can download actual sample implementation documents–not just templates! www.ibmpressbooks.com Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxiii About the Author xxv Chapter 1: Evaluating Process Solutions 1 Chapter 2: Your First Steps Toward Implementing RUP and IBM Rational Solutions 17 Chapter 3: Assessing Your Organization and Building Your Business Case for Organizational Change 29 Chapter 4: Implementation Team 49 Chapter 5: Settin..…”