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Mastering Complexity: Adding Coherence Throughout Your Business with Dependency Structure Spreadsheets book cover

1st Edition

Mastering Complexity Adding Coherence Throughout Your Business with Dependency Structure Spreadsheets

By Stephen Denker Copyright 2015
143 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

143 Pages
by Productivity Press

143 Pages
by Productivity Press
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Mastering Complexity is designed to help readers develop and maintain logical, adaptable solutions to business problems. It demonstrates how to visualize business dependency connections with a square spreadsheet called a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM). Once the links representing dependencies are visualized in a DSM, it can be used to improve the business. The book focuses on simple... Read more

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Work Has Structure
What Is Structure?
Why a Structural Model?
DSM Spreadsheet Process Model
DSM Spreadsheet Shows a Plan
Putting on My Shoes
Reducing Cycle Time
Reviews that Add Value

Business Process Structures
Visualizing a Business
Cross-Organizational Collaboration
Representing Complexity

Building Dependency Maps
What Depends on What?
Introduction
Some Dependency Types
Direct Dependencies
Projects and Structure
Making Assumptions
Manipulating Assumptions
Active Risk Management
Unwrapping Circuits

Exposing Logical Structure
Topological Order
Partitioning
Tearing Circuits
Introduction
What Tearing Does
Problem-Solving Advice
Structural Components
Configuration Testing
Control Dependencies
Breakthrough Thinking

Putting DSM Spreadsheets To Work
Understanding Structure Essentials

Tools
Microsoft Excel-Based Free Software
Problematics PSM 32
Lattix Architect and Lattix Analyst

Index

Biography

Stephen Denker

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