Chapters are sent to a technical editor, reviewed, updated, reviewed by a copy editor,
updated, typeset (for lack of a better word), reviewed again, and finally they??™re
ready to go. In between, questions fly back and forth between editors, managers, and
technical people as the book comes together. Somewhere, one or more artists create
professional images from hand-drawn pictures when the author, as in my case, lacks
any sort of artistic skill.
I??™ve been extremely lucky to have excellent help on this project. Two people,
in particular, are singled out for high praise. The first is Alyson Powell Erwin, a
program manager on the PerformancePoint Server team. Alyson was the technical
editor for this book and her suggestions were always excellent. Beyond simply being
the technical editor, however, Alyson answered many of my often inane questions,
provided insight about why some features worked as they did, and offered alternatives
to the ways I first presented some of the material in this book. Alyson was my conduit
into the PPS team at large and I truly appreciate her as well as her efforts.
The second person to make a major impact on this book is Sony Jose. Sony is
a colleague of mine at Solid Quality Mentors, but as of the time of this writing we
have not met in person. Sony was lucky enough to be involved with one of the first
production installations of the Planning Server portion of PerformancePoint Server;
as such, I asked him to write Chapter 7 and he obliged.
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