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Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential
Author Robert Webber
UNLOCKING AGILE'S MISSED POTENTIALAgile has not delivered on its promises. The business side expected faster time to market, but they still experience the long delays of bloated releases. Engineers thought they would be given time to build the product right the first time, but they are rushed under....
Release Date 2022/08 -
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Author David Schmaltz
If you work, you probably manage projects every day-even if "project manager" isn't in your official title-and you know how frustrating the experience can be. Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor....
Release Date 2003/04 -
CPM Scheduling for Construction: Best Practices and Guidelines
Author Craig Relyea , Peter Oakander , Christopher Carson
The present edition, an SEI collaboration with the PMI Scheduling Community of Practice, provides readers with a reference guide that is like having an experienced scheduling professional at hand. The book itself is laid out in a way that follows the phases of bui....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Richard Krevolin
Corporations can no longer just worship the bottom line. Consumers and customers want to be associated with brands that align with their values. For business success today, your company needs to tell a compelling story that creates engagement, word-of-mouth, and br....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Agile for Instructional Designers: Iterative Project Management to Achieve Results
Author Megan Torrance
Discover Agile for Better Instructional DesignTo serve business needs amid greater volatility and uncertainty in the workplace, learning and development professionals need project management methods that can keep up. Enter Agile.Popular in the software development ....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Project Management Success with CMMI
Author James Persse
Use CMMI to Improve Project Management Efficiency, Effectiveness, and AccountabilityThe Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 2 offers powerful, end-to-end tools for improvement throughout your organization. In Project Management Success with C....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Stocks Under Rocks: How to Uncover Overlooked, Profitable Market Opportunities
Author Peter F. Ricchiuti
Find great stocks "in your own backyard": master do-it-yourself research techniques for uncovering today’s best small-cap equity opportunities! Peter Ricchiuti reveals the secrets of Tulane University’s Burkenroads Reports program, where he and 200+ business student....
Release Date 2013/12 -
SAFe® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Enterprises, Second Edition
Author Dean Leffingwell , Richard Knaster
SAFe®: The World's Leading Framework for Enterprise Agility "Philips is continuously driving to develop high-quality software in a predictable, fast, and Agile way. SAFe addresses this primary goal, and offers these further benefits: reduced time-to-market, improv....
Release Date 2018/08 -
The Professional Agile Leader: Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations
Author Ron Eringa , Kurt Bittner , Laurens Bonnema
Hone Your Agile Leadership Skills to Help Your Organization Transform and Thrive“Drawing on vast experience, Ron, Kurt, and Laurens tease out practical tips and patterns for good leadership [and show] how a leader can help shape the environment for agile teams to succeed. . . . The narrative style o....
Release Date 2022/06 -
Author Isabella Villani
Your customers are your future.Smartphones, social media and the internet have given customers access to more information than ever before. If your business fails them, they will switch to your competitor and never return. So how do you keep them? By mapping their ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Author Rebecca Duray , Howard Williams
Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT presents Lean concepts and techniques for improving processes and eliminating waste in IT operations and IT Service Management, in a manner that is easy to understand. The authors provide a context for discus....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Pamela Pavliscak
The need to understand people lies at the core of any product design, and currently there are two standard ways to measure that understanding: big datasets and small research studies—aka "thick data." Most organizations favor big over thick, but in doing so they mi....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Paul Witt
In this volume, leading scholars from the fields of communication, educational psychology, and international education address what is known about the strategic role of interpersonal communication in the teaching/learning process. Instruction often involves spoken ....
Release Date 2016/09 -
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 -
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 -
Designing the Editorial Experience
Author Juliette Cezzar , Sue Apfelbaum
In a world of media that seems to be ever-changing, how do we define a newspaper, magazine or journal? Are we drinking our morning coffee on a Sunday as we sit down and read our newstablet? Look around any doctor’s office waiting room and you will find two people re....
Release Date 2014/03 -
How Strong Is Your Firm’s Competitive Advantage?
Author Daniel Marburger
Perhaps the most confounding characteristic of the competitive marketplace is that everyone wants a piece of the action. If a firm successfully enters a new market, creates a new product, or designs new innovations for an existing product, it’s just a matter of time....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises
Author Cecil Rupp , Manjit Singh
Establish business agility in your organization by applying industry-proven scaling strategies from popular Scrum frameworks such as Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Scrum@Scale, Nexus, Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile, and SAFeKey FeaturesLearn how to be Agile at scale ....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Author Tony Martyr
We are all involved at some time in our lives in projects, if not professionally then in our private and community lives. Some projects fail completely and many more disappoint. We frequently hear reports of IT, construction, engineering, and personal projects fail....
Release Date 2018/05 -
7 Tenets of Taxi Terry: How Every Employee Can Create and Deliver the Ultimate Customer Experience
Author Scott McKain
Inspired by the Ideas and Insight of Taxi Terry…The Best Guide to Customer Service You Will Ever ReadNo matter who you are, what you do, where you work, or how much money you make, you can learn a lot from a cab driver--especially when it is Taxi Terry, a successful....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Author Eileen C. Forrester , Brandon L. Buteau , Sandy Shrum
CMMI® for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a comprehensive set of guidelines to help organizations establish and improve processes for delivering services. By adapting and extending proven standards and best practices to reflect the unique challenges faced in service industri....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Author Janine Garner
Meet the twelve people that can accelerate your success – in business and in lifeIt's Who You Know is the long-awaited handbook to effective, productive and influential networking. Having the right relationships is more important than ever before, but digital conn....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Haikady N. Nagaraja , Pankaj K. Choudhary
Presents statistical methodologies for analyzing common types of data from method comparison experiments and illustrates their applications through detailed case studiesMeasuring Agreement: Models, Methods, and Applications features statistical evaluation of agreem....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Author David Hinde
Everything you need to be fully prepared to take the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner examAs an internationally recognized certification which focuses on the Foundation and Practitioner levels along with being recommended by the Project Management Institute, the ....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Author David Norton
The marketing guru of Caesars/Harrah’s shows how you can double-down and win with a proven data-driven approachWalking through Caesars in Las Vegas may seem like a dream—the lights are not too bright, the temperature is perfect, and everything is within your reach.....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Author Allan Kelly
Every product owner faces a complex and unique set of challenges within their team. This provides each individual the opportunity to fill the role with different ambitions, skills, and insights. Your product ownership journey can take a variety of paths, and The Ar....
Release Date 2019/09 -
The Earned Value Management Maturity Model
Author Ray W. Stratton
The Earned Value Management Maturity Model® gives you the fundamental tools needed to build an effective Earned Value Management System (EVMS). This must-have resource makes earned value management easy by defining a maturity model and describing metrics to me....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Author Rob Ptacek , Jaideep Motwani
Over the past decade, Lean methods and tools have helped manufacturing organizations improve their productivity levels significantly by focusing on data, systematic elimination of waste, and improvement of flow. Today many nonmanufacturing organizations are applying....
Release Date 2014/06