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How To Implement the CMMI - Real Process Improvement Using Proven Solutions
In the year 1513, Machiavelli said... Let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes In most cases, this still holds true today. If your organization is having difficulty implementing Level 2 and/or Level 3 of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®), it is likely due to the method or techniques being used to affect the change. Whether you are just beginning an improvement journey or have become lost or frustrated along the way, this book will show you how to overcome typical obstacles, eliminate time wasters, and enhance communication throughout your organization. This book follows a clear, 10 step method for improvement through practical guidance and instruction for the entire improvement lifecycle from "how to get started" to "a successful appraisal" and continuous improvement. How To Implement the CMMI is based on Ms. Burwick's previous top-selling book, "How To Implement the CMM." What's different? The book has been updated for the current model, CMMI-DEV v1.2, and tons of great new information, examples, tips and tricks are included. Also, the samples process documents have been completely revised and are now quite streamlined. What's the same? Rather than a lot of theory, this book provides instruction for practical application. Ms. Burwick explains how to overcome resistance to implementation and much, much more. She provides a basic Process Improvement Plan as a starting point, and a standard set of policy, flows, and descriptions that can easily be modified for any organization and serve as the requisite organizational process manual for each process area. She also provides a transition package for use at the project level, with detailed instructions every step of the way..
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Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination
Using as his starting point the historical notion that poets may be, at least in moments of inspiration, "out of their senses," Frederick Burwick here explores the theoretical implications of inspiration as furor poeticus, particularly as that concept was presented during the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on social and medical attitudes toward madness and the so-called poetic rapture, Burwick addresses the appeal to poetic madness in critical theory, the thematization of the mad poet in literature, and the reception of mad poets. With a mad king on the throne of England, mad prophets in the marketplace, and mad poets in their midst, many writers of this period, not surprisingly, used their fiction to explore the conditions of madness. In discussing the mad poet as a character in Romantic literature, Burwick examines the reception and representation of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso in Goethe's play and in the poetry and criticism of the Schlegels, Byron, Shelley, Peacock, and Hazlitt. In his commentary on narratives of madness, Burwick discusses Nodier's Jean-Fran¿ois les bas-bleus, Hoffmann's Der Goldne Topf, Shelley's Julian and Maddalo, and Blake's account of the struggle between Los and Urizen. The final section interprets the visual strategies adopted by H¿lderlin, Nerval, and Clare in relating their visionary experiences..
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Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power (Romanticism in Perspective)
This book examines what De Quincy called "psychological criticism," a mode of studying how "literature of power" arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious He explores this "power" by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled re-writing of a German forgery of a Waverley novel, as well as such better known works as "Suspiria de Profundis," "Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts," "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," "The English Mail-Coach," and "Wordsworth's Poetry." New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts. .
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