Techniques
 Techniques
15-Minute Rule
360-Degree Reviews
8-7-6-5-4-3 Technique
80/20 Rule
Action Items
Active Listening
Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
Alexander Technique
Archiving
Arrow Diagramming Method
Assumptions
Balanced Scorecard
Benefits Management
Bid Management
Body Language
Body Shopping
Brainstorming
Budgetting
Business Assurance
Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR)
Capacity Planning
Check Lists and Templates
Chief Programmer Teams
Concurrent Engineering
Conference Room Piloting
Configuration Management
Consensus Building
Cost/Benefit Analysis
CRC Cards
Crisis Management
Critical Path Analysis
Cyclomatic Complexity Metric
Daily Build
Data Base Design
Data Flow Diagrams
Data Modelling
Decision Trees/Tables
Deliverable Management
Design By Contract
Dirt Files
Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Document Mill
Documentation Management
Dog Fooding
Dual Programming
Due Diligence
Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
Economic Value Added (EVA)
Empowerment
Entity Relationship Diagramming (ERD)
Estimating
Event Models
Exception Reporting
Existing System Cross-Check
Expectation Management
Extended Relational Analysis (ERA)
Facilitation and Moderation
Facilities Management (FM)
Financial Management
Flowcharts
Focus Groups
Force-Field Analysis
Function Analysis
Function Point Counting
Gap Analysis
Goal/Question/Metric (GQM)
Good Guy/Bad Guy
Handling Complaints
Handling Difficult People
Handover Management
Hierarchy plus Input-Process-Output (HIPO)
Homework
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Impact Assessment
Inspections
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Interviewing
Issues Management
Joint Application Design (JAD) workshops
Knowledge Management
Legal Management
Life Planning
Management By Objectives (MBO)
Management By Walking Around (MBWA)
Management Retreat
Managing Complexity
Managing Conflicts
Managing Contracts
Managing Relationships
Managing Upwards
Meeting Management
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
Mind Mapping
Mini Specs
Monte Carlo Analysis
Negotiating
Net Present Value (NPV)
New Business Getting
Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA)
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Option Analysis
Organisation Change Management
Organisation Design
Outsourcing
Parallel Development
Parallel Running
Participants' Training
Pattern Recognition
Performance Benchmarking
Performance Improvement Programme
Performance Needs Analysis (PNA)
Performance Reviews
Performance Tuning
Permission Statements
Pilot/First Site
Politics
Pragmatic Project Prioritisation Process
Prime Contracting
Problem Analysis
Problem Management
Process Analysis
Product Branding
Product Development
Program
Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Proof of Concept (POC)
Project Inspection
Project Review
Project Management
Project Tracking Review Meeting
Prototyping
Pseudo Code
Quality Circle
Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Reaction Management
Refactoring
Reference Checking
Requirements Management
Return on Investment (ROI)
Reverse Engineering
Reviews
Risk Management
Round-Trip Engineering
Sales and Marketing
Sandboxing
Scope Change Management
Sensitivity Analysis
Signposts of Danger (SOD)
Simulation
Skills Transfer
Slow Throw Drawer
Source Code Walkthrough
Sponsor's Satisfaction Barometer
Stakeholder Assessment
Stakeholder Management
State Models
State Transition Diagrams
Statistical Sampling
Stretch Targets
Structured Analysis and Design
Structured Programming
Succession Planning
SWOT Analysis
Systems Integration (SI)
Targeted Recruitment
Task Analysis
Teamwork
Technology Transfer
Telephone
Testing
Tie Breaker
Time Management
Timeboxing
Timesheets
Town Hall Meetings
Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
Train-the-Trainer
Transactional Analysis (TA)
Triage
Unresolved Issues
Use Case
Variance Analysis
Walkthroughs
Waterfall
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All of the above techniques have the following common characteristics:
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Easy to learn.
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Understandable by both Business Staff and Technical Staff.
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Quick and easy to use and apply by both Business Staff and Technical Staff.
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Provide maximum return for economy of effort.
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Foster teamwork.
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