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Managing programming productivity

Journal of Systems and Software, 1985
Abstract This paper reviews a study on programming productivity carried out to 1. (i) confirm previous published results, 2. (ii) explore the impact of the changing programming environment on productivity, and 3. (iii) examine the influence on productivity of organizational factors.
D. Ross Jeffery, M. J. Lawrence
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Management and productivity

International Library Review, 1969
The latest edition of the Baker Library Reference List Number 25 (Business Literature: An Annotated List for Students and Businessmen. Boston (Mass.) : Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1969, 139 pp., $5) is arranged under 14 subject headings with three appendixes (General Bibliographies and Periodicals, Published Case ...
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MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY

Journal of Business Strategy, 1982
Improving productivity is a central concern of all American businesses today. While there are many approaches to boosting productivity, they all hinge on achieving the right mix of stability in routine operations and innovation in adapting to new conditions in the marketplace.
J, Dutton, A, Thomas
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Managing Product Rollovers

Decision Sciences, 2010
ABSTRACTWe study the product rollover strategy decision, where a firm decides whether to phase out an old generation of a product to be replaced by a new with either a dual or single roll. Our model considers a final build of the old product and preannouncement of the new, and incorporates dynamic pricing and inventory decisions.
Eylem Koca, Gilvan C. Souza, Cheryl T. Druehl   +2 more
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Managing for breakthroughs in productivity

Human Resource Management, 1989
This article is about creating and managing projects so as to deliberately and predictably produce results well beyond what could have been reasonably expected beforehand. This methodology was originated in the mid-1980's and applied to 20 engineering projects at IBM with spectacular results. In the years since, many projects in a myriad of fields have
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Managing product requirements for medical IT products

Proceedings IEEE Joint International Conference on Requirements Engineering, 2003
In this paper we shall describe our experiences over several years in improving the product requirements management process in an industrial environment where information technology products are made for use in hospitals and clinics. Central to our approach is that we have introduced an improved product requirements management process and supporting ...
Stewart A. Higgins, Maurice de Laat, Paul M. C. Gieles, Emilienne M. Geurts   +3 more
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Productivity and Production Management

1981
There has been a productivity problem in the United States for many years, but it had gone unnoticed until recently. It is reflected by a decreasing rate of growth of productivity, the importance of which was not recognized as quickly as its symptoms: inflation, unemployment, weak currency, and deficit trade balances. With near-zero productivity growth,
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Product Line Management

Orthopaedic Nursing, 1991
The application of Product Line Management to the health care industry in the United States is an effort to use a management approach from the business world that aims at implementing, maintaining, and enhancing productivity without compromising quality patient care.
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Software Product Management

IEEE Software, 2014
The success of a product or solution depends on effective product management. This article provides a brief overview of software product management and some experiences with introducing, improving, and deploying the role of a product manager in industry.
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Evolution of the product manager

Communications of the ACM, 2014
Better education needed to develop the discipline.
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