- Al jarenlang het standaardwerk voor rapportagetechniek in de technische sector;

- van allerhande rapporttypes tot sollicitatiebrieven, presentaties en professionele socialmedia-berichten;

- vol tips en tricks waardoor ‘leeslast’ plaatsmaakt voor ‘leeslust’.

‘Kan het wat korter?’ - een veel gehoorde vraag in de technische beroepspraktijk, wanneer het gaat over rapporten, mails en nieuwsbrieven. Hoe bereik je als tekstschrijver dat lezers met weinig tijd, jouw tekst willen lezen? ...

Praktisch UMLis een handleiding voor het toepassen van de Unified Modeling Language (UML), de standaard voor object georiënteerde analyse en ontwerp, die sinds 1997 wereldwijd wordt gebruikt.

Deze vijfde editie van Praktisch UMLbiedt:

• een beschrijving van de belangrijkste object georiënteerde principes;

• een beschrijving van de diverse UML-diagrammen;

• inzicht in de samenhang tussen de UML-diagrammen;

• een overzicht van de notatie van de UML-diagrammen;

• een beschrijvi...

Dit boek gaat over het analyseren, ontwerpen en inrichten van processen in organisaties. Het geeft concreet in stappenplannen wat je kunt doen als je processen in je organisatie wilt verbeteren en (her)ontwerpen. Daartoe worden ook de instrumenten en technieken aangereikt om dat te kunnen doen. De achterliggende kennis die hierbij nodig is wordt beknopt gepresenteerd met verwijzingen naar relevante literatuur.

Bij de tweede druk is een aanzienlijk deel van de methoden en beschrijvingen in het ...

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A new edition of the #1 text in the human computer Interaction field!

Hugely popular with students and professionals alike, the Fifth Edition of Interaction Design is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human-computer interaction, information design, web design, and ubiquitous computing. New to the fifth edition: a chapter on data at scale, which covers developments in the emerging fields of 'human data interaction' and data analytics. Th...

A leader in the field of data visualization, Stephen Few exposes the common problems in dashboard design and describes its best practices in great detail and with a multitude of examples in this updated second edition. According to the author, dashboards have become a popular means to present critical information at a glance, yet few do so effectively. He purports that when designed well, dashboards engage the power of visual perception to communicate a dense collection of information efficie...

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Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code.

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