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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. When used in combination with resource metrics, waits can be valuable for assessing certain performance characteristics of the workload and aid in steering tuning efforts.

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Tasktop Viz Limited Release Announced, Flow Metrics Made Easy

Tasktop

With the underpinnings of our organizations and our economy shifting to intangible assets powered by software, how is that we still do not have an established way of measuring value and risk in software delivery? My personal quest for meaningful software delivery metrics started by accident.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

The basic idea of the framework is to use an economic metric such as gross margin as the optimization objective and consider it a function of possible retailer’s actions such as marketing campaigns or assortment adjustments. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The model (2.1)

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

Do you have a complete set of process metrics established with your suppliers? To what degree of certainty do you trust the data you receive for those metrics? All anybody cares about is that we produce "results" - for us, this means getting software into production no matter what. It interferes with our focus on results.