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The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, Second Edition
Author Mitch Lacey
Thousands of organizations are adopting Scrum to transform the way they execute complex projects, in software and beyond. This guide will give you the skills and confidence needed to deploy Scrum, resulting in high-performing teams and satisfied customers. Drawing ....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Agile Development in the Real World
Author Alan Cline
This book is a practical guide for new agile practitioners and contains everything a new project manager needs to know to get up to speed with agile practices quickly and sort out the hype and dogma of pseudo-agile practices.The author lays out the general guidelin....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Agile Project Management for Business Transformation Success
Author Milan Frankl , Paul Paquette
This book is intended to provide project management office (PMO) executives’ practical information to promote enterprise Agile for business value compatibility within their organization. The primary benefit of this book is to promote a sense of common purpose....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Agile Product Development: How to Design Innovative Products That Create Customer Value
Author Tathagat Varma
Discover what it takes to develop products that blow your users away—and take market share from your competitors. This book will explain how the principles behind agile product development help designers, developers, architects, and product managers create awesome ....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Broken Agile: Stories from the Trenches, Second Edition
Author Tim Brizard
Learn how to be successful in adopting Agile and see good and bad examples of how Agile can be adopted. Broken Agile, Second Edition contains stories from years of real world experience on Agile teams and projects. The stories in each chapter are both educational a....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author Rachel Alt-Simmons
Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle managementAgile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. Yo....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Doug Rose
Leading Agile Teams is a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset. Most organizations work in large groups when trying to find solutions for big problems. Agile teams are different. They get more done by having a small s....
Release Date 2015/10 -
The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban
Author Ajay Reddy
Create Thriving, High-Performing Teams and Organizations with ScrumbanScrumban allows you to use Kanban as a catalyst for increasingly valuable changes to your existing software development processes, amplifying and expanding upon Scrum’s benefits. Now, there’s a de....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author David Scott Bernstein
We're losing tens of billions of dollars a year on broken software, and great new ideas such as agile development and Scrum don't always pay off. But there's hope. The nine software development practices in Beyond Legacy Code are designed to solve the problems f....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Jannika Björkholm , Tomas Björkholm
Modern and efficient organization that delivers resultsFind out how Kanban fits into the broader context of Agile, and get to grips with the core components of its philosophyIdentify problems and challenges in your current processes and take immediate steps to driv....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Mattias Skarin
Your team is stressed; priorities are unclear. You're not sure what your teammates are working on, and management isn't helping. If your team is struggling with any of these symptoms, these four case studies will guide you to project success. See how Kanban was us....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Mark C. Layton
Practice an agile form of management to stop wasting time and moneyScrum For Dummies is an easy to use guide to managing the tricky transition from a traditional project management methodology to the new and most popular agile framework. As the most efficient, succ....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Author Christian Stadil , Lene Tanggaard
Increasing creativity is now a priority – a driving force in the 21st century. We are constantly in need of new and significant ideas to ensure sustainable growth, whether personal or in business, nationally or internationally. This requires us to have the necessary....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Author David Moss
Understanding the Ground Rules for the Global EconomyIn this revised and updated edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging langua....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Leaving ADDIE for SAM Field Guide
Author Richard Sites , Angel Green
Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.In the 2012 bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, learning professionals were introduced to the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and the Savvy Start—the key to a successful project ki....
Release Date 2014/05 -
The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget: How to Live Well on $25,000 a Year
Author Suzan Haskins , Dan Prescher
Achieve your dream of retiring abroad while on a budgetThe International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget provides a detailed guide to one of the least-known but most effective retirement strategies in today's chaotic economic environment: retiring abr....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Tilo Linz
These days, more and more software development projects are being carried out using agile methods like Scrum. Agile software development promises higher software quality, a shorter time to market, and improved focus on customer needs.However, the transition to worki....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Marcus Hammarberg and Joakim Sundén
SummaryKanban in Action is a down-to-earth, no-frills, get-to-know-the-ropes introduction to kanban. It's based on real-world experience and observations from two kanban coaches who have introduced this process to dozens of teams. You'll learn the principles of wh....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Author Jamie Lynn Cooke
Agile methodologies go to great lengths to provide developers with the tools and support they need to produce world-class software. Yet, they rely on individual business users having sufficient knowledge, vision, objectivity, and time to ensure the best possib....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Author Ricardo Vargas
Quick tips on ideas, concepts and the use of project management in your profession and life.No matter what is your profession, every time that a temporary nature shows up in a work of yours, which is different from routine, you have in front of you a project. And ma....
Release Date 2013/09 -
“I Have a Dream”: A 50th Year Testament to the March that Changed America
Author Dr. Bernard LaFayette , Dr. Rodney Sampson , Bob Adelman , Dr. Charles Steele , Dami
On August 28, 1963, something quite amazing occurred. On that day, one of the largest political rallies ever took place in support of civil and economic rights of African-Americans, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, gave one....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Learn Popular Retail Strategies (Collection)
Author Dick Blatt , Rick DeHerder , Richard Hammond
The world's #1 guide to retail success, complete with crucial, up-to-date insights--including new case studies, ideas, strategies, and tactics from today's best retailers, like TopShop, IKEA, and Best Buy. Smart Retailincorporates several valuable chapters, includ....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Executable Specifications with Scrum: A Practical Guide to Agile Requirements Discovery
Author Mario Cardinal
Most books about specifications still assume that requirements can be known up front and won’t change much during your project. In today’s “real world,” however, you must specify and build software in the face of high and continuing uncertainty. Scrum and other agil....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools, & Tips
Author Ilan Goldstein
Practical, Step-by-Step Scrum Techniques for Improving Processes, Actions, and OutcomesThe widespread adoption and success of Scrum can be attributed in large part to its perceived intuitiveness and simplicity. But when new Scrum practitioners attempt to apply Scrum....
Release Date 2013/07 -
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Author Michael Lennington , Brian P. Moran
The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeksMost organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of ann....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Passing the PRINCE2 Exams For Dummies
Author Nick Graham
Everything you need to prepare for—and pass—the examsDoes the thought of sitting your PRINCE2 exams bring you out in a cold sweat? Fear not. Passing the PRINCE2 Exams For Dummies is your complete guide to preparing for—and passing—the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practiti....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Mr. Stephen Barker
Everything you need to know about the PRINCE2 qualification, whether your studying, have passed the exam and wondering what to do next, or simply wanting to start using the best of PRINCE2 straight away.This book is designed to give practical information and advice ....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Author Fergus O'Connell
Head banging against a brick wall? Nagging problem you just can’t solve?You’re not the only one.An astonishing number of intelligent people struggle to find solutions to some of the complex, varied and often frustrating problems we face in our day-to-day work. Wheth....
Release Date 2012/11 -
The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond
Author Peter Saddington
A fast and easy guide to Agile/Scrum principles for any organizationThe philosophy of Agile is to collaborate as much as possible with your teams and clients to build quality products that ship early and often, while learning and re-learning as you go. The Scrum app....
Release Date 2012/11