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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 -
Author Jody Spiro
Focus on the right thingsAn education leader’s job can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Research shows that by spending time on just a few high-payoff strategies, leaders can bring about the meaningful change their schools and districts need.H....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author Joe Calloway
Magnetic: The Art of Attracting Business is a look at how consistently successful businesses are able to attract a steady and ever-increasing flow of customers. This innovative text examines a range of simple, powerful strategies that businesses of any size or type....
Release Date 2015/11 -
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 -
Lean Startups for Social Change
Author Michel Gelobter
For years, the lean startup has been revolutionizing both new and established businesses. In this eye-opening book, serial social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter shows how it can do the same for nonprofits.Traditionally, whether creating a new business or a new p....
Release Date 2015/11 -
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 -
Author Thomas A. Kochan
Business leaders have a choice in how they want to compete. “High-road” companies, author Thomas A. Kochan argues, are managed for the long term, seeking to compete through a combination of high productivity, innovation, and quality customer service tha....
Release Date 2015/10 -
X: The Experience When Business Meets Design
Author Brian Solis
Welcome to a new era of business in which your brand is defined by those who experience it. Do you know how your customers experience your brand today?Do you know how they really feel?Do you know what they say when you re not around?In an always-on world where ever....
Release Date 2015/10 -
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 Ralph L. Kliem
Lean is a set of disciplines that can result in tremendous savings and profitability for companies. It can significantly reduce cycle times and increase customer satisfaction. Lean, however, must be applied efficiently and effectively to achieve optimum results. Th....
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 -
Author Gene Fliedner
Lean is a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. This book examines these elements following a systematic, hierarchical orientation and explains their relevance for guiding....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Edgar Papke
When leaders fail to confront conflict, they become the ‘biggest elephant’ in the room. In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives, and managers, more than 90 percent admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict. Show and hide mo....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Operationalizing Sustainability
Author Patrick Corsi , Pierre Massotte
This book focuses on the emergence of the “science of sustainability” and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization. The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Global Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model
Author Terence T. Burton
The book that reinvents Lean for a new generation, a new global culture, and a new benchmark of successGlobal Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model™ sets a new benchmark for the evolution of Lean and strategic improvement. The book and the ....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Trend-Driven Innovation: Beat Accelerating Customer Expectations
Author Alexander Osterwalder , Delia Dumitrescu , Maxwell Luthy , David Mattin , Henry Maso
Trend-Driven InnovationBeat accelerating customer expectations.Every business leader, entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer wants to know where customers are headed. The problem? The received wisdom on how to find out is wrong.In this startling new book, the team a....
Release Date 2015/09 -
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 Jay Holben
Filmmaker Jay Holben has been battling in the production trenches for most of his life. For the past 17 years, he’s chronicled his adventures in the pages of American Cinematographer, Digital Video, Videography, and TV Technology. Now, in Behind the Lens: Dispatches....
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 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 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 -
The Customer Trap: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake in Business
Author Andrew R. Thomas , Timothy J. Wilkinson
American business is dysfunctional. Companies of all sizes follow the mistaken belief that their products and services are best sold through mega-customers with pervasive market reach, such as Amazon and Walmart. Far too many business leaders fail to realize—until i....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Improving Business Performance With Lean, Second Edition
Author James R. Bradley
This book is a concise introduction to the essential concepts and tools used in the Lean method for improving business processes. It constitutes a sufficient toolkit to enable practitioners to quickly start using Lean to improve business processes in thei....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Author Jacob Stoller
As organizations strive to do more with less, many are turning to Lean methodology, which is based on the same techniques that propelled the legendary turnaround of Japan's industrial sector after World War II. Few leaders, however, understand that the real se....
Release Date 2015/03