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Project management is covered in this article. Flexibility is the key to planning. The ability to change to the needs of the project is stressed. Methodology that is rigid must be allowed to change itself to meets then needs of the project.

Network Buying Decisions Can Be Complicated The consensus of opinion is that the smartest decision you can make when selecting a local area network (LAN) is to get someone else [...]

Automating a Bureaucracy The immovable object, government, has met the irresistible force, office automation. And after waging combat for almost three years, the force would seem to have the object [...]

Scheduling in single-machine data processing environments is addressed, with the objective of minimizing weighted total completion times without missing established deadlines for specific jobs to be processed. Optimal scheduling, defined as minimized completion time requirements, is shown to be a function of precedence relations between jobs within the system. The optimal scheduling solution developed employs branch and bound techniques and tight bounding criteria, after considering the precedence relations identified.

THE PLANNING RITUAL The data processing revolution of the past 20 years has made software development a priority item for large and small organizations. Since the late '60s, research has [...]

INCREASED computer use and more complex automated systems are a fact of business life for the 1980s. Consequently, greater electronic data processing (EDP) dependence is an accepted condition in current [...]

AVOIDING THE VON NEUMANN BOTTLENECK In the days of the ENIAC (begun in 1943) and the EDVAC (1944), both random access memory and secondary storage were very small. In the [...]

PROGRAMS AS ESSAYS When I consider the field of computing, two phenomena astonish me: that programmers aren't the best of writers, and that computer science has had to discover what [...]

MENDING CRAZY QUILT SYSTEMS As data processing has grown through the '60s and '70s, the volume of implemented software has become enormous. The development expense for software applications is now [...]

Managing the worldwide incorporation of new services and products is a particularly difficult task, especially for large, diversified organizations. The activities surrounding such changes include notification and training for all [...]

Careful planning is needed before setting up a communications network. More important than the technology used in a particular system are the requirements of the company, as well as federal standards and organizational units and their functions.

Placing yourself at the leading edge of technology has its hazards. New equipment might be faster and more efficient but it might also have unseen problems. The problem of fads also increases with technology.

That's All That's Left!' Let's say your company just suffered the violent effects of a hurricane. Your computer room is a pathetic array of abused machinery. Your communications network is [...]