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How to Kill the Scrum Monster: Quick Start to Agile Scrum Methodology and the Scrum Master Role
Author Ilya Bibik
Implement Scrum or improve how Scrum works in your team or organization using this concise, sharp, and programmatic book. You will quickly learn what you need to know without getting confused with unnecessary details.What You'll LearnBecome familiar with Agile con....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Balancing Perseverance with Agility
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Today’s leaders need to be able to adapt and stay focused in the age of uncertainly. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the need for continual reinvention, the ways to tap creativity strategically, and the fact that to grow ....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Not every leader is wildly charismatic or cut from the same cloth as other leaders in the organization. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways leaders can turn their weaknesses into strengths, overcome their personal deficits....
Release Date 2018/07 -
PRINCE2 Study Guide, 2nd Edition
Author David Hinde
Everything you need to pass the PRINCE2 with flying colorsThe PRINCE2 Study Guide, Second Edition, offers comprehensive preparation for the latest PRINCE2 exam. Covering 100 percent of the exam objectives, this guide provides invaluable guidance that will help you ....
Release Date 2018/07 -
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 -
Author Glenn Wallis , David Pilbeam
EVERY LEADER IS DIFFERENT. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS WITH LEADER ID. With a diagnostic test to discover your strengths and areas to improve, you’ll become a more effective, authentic and confident leader. What’s your Leader ID? To be a confident, ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
An Executive’s Guide to Software Quality in an Agile Organization: A Continuous Improvement Journey
Author Navid Nader-Rezvani
Utilize a set of practical guidelines to help your Agile organization elevate software design quality as an important business driver to achieve customer satisfaction and, ultimately, higher revenue for your company. This is the first book to focus on a holistic qu....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Author Dr. Alan S. Gutterman
This book traces the foundations for sustainable entrepreneurship, beginning with sustainability, ecopreneurship, and social entrepreneurship. Sustainability has become a multidimensional concept that extends beyond environmental protection to economic development ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
The Myths and Truths of Lean Transformations
Author Raymond Kelly
This book is a crucial resource for Lean practitioners (experienced or not) who are seeking: insight on how to gain more from their Lean efforts, how to overcome resistance to change (that is, to effectively convey 'What’s in it for me?' to their business associa....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Daniel Protzman , Fred Whiton , Charles W. Protzman
Everyone has heard the phrase about doing twice the work in half the time, but instead of focusing only on time, this book focuses on driving increased output with consistently less input. Implementing Lean: Twice the Output with Half the Input! teaches readers not ....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Hacking Product Design: A Guide to Designing Products for Startups
Author Tony Jing
Understand how designing a technology product in a startup environment is markedly different from product design at established companies. This book teaches product designers how to think and frame problems in the dynamic context of startups. You will discover how ....
Release Date 2018/09 -
A First Course in Quality Engineering, 3rd Edition
Author Arunkumar Pennathur , V. Ram Krishnamoorthi , K. S. Krishnamoorthi
This book is the leader among the new generation of text books on quality that follow the systems approach to creating quality in products and services; the earlier generations focused solely on parts of the system such as statistical methods, process control, and ....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Joe Willmore
A Simple, Effective Approach to Attaining Learning and Performance ResultsJob aids are often the most practical way to get quick performance improvement, particularly in time-pressured, resource-constrained situations. Not sure where to begin, or even if a job aid i....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Dion Nicolaas
Scrum is an agile framework for completing complex projects. This book gives examples, tools, and tricks to do Scrum well.For each trick it is explained why it helps. The practices themselves may be worth trying, but by understanding why it works the readers will b....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Susanne Pejstrup , Vibeke Fladkjaer Nielsen
Responding to a recent surge in interest, this is the first book to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture. This handbook breaks down barriers, clearly showing how techniques originally developed for use in factories wo....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Lean Development and Innovation
Author Luciano Attolico
Using Toyota's principles for product and process development, this book focuses the implementation of the Lean system during the past 10 years in dozens of corporations across various industries. The book highlights all steps on the journey from common trouble are....
Release Date 2018/10 -
The BASICS Lean™ Implementation Model
Author William Keen , Daniel Protzman , Charles W. Protzman III
In 2004 Charlie Protzman created The BASICS Lean Implementation Model, which covers the full spectrum of what is needed to be effective and successful at implementing a Lean System. The reader is taken through a step by step approach developed over the last 15 year....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Author Matt LeMay
The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at night: How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software.....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Consider Culture When Implementing Agile Practices
Author Tabitha L. James , Kannan Mohan , Jongwoo Kim , Lan Cao , Balasubramaniam Ramesh
Adopting agile development practices helps organizations to bring their products and services to market quickly and respond to market changes. In an increasingly global business landscape, taking the time to address cultural differences when implementing agile is c....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Author Jamie Lynn Cooke
Now in its second edition, The Power of the Agile Business Analyst has expanded to include new Agile methods that have emerged or gained prominence since the first edition. Buy this book to learn how to revolutionise your Agile development and increase the va....
Release Date 2018/11 -
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 -
What's Your Competitive Advantage?
Author Paul Raspin , Cliff Bowman
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Release Date 2018/12 -
Create and Deliver a Killer Product Demo: Tips and Tricks to Wow Your Customers
Author Oscar Santolalla
Create great product demos and sell more of your product with the strategies and inspiration in this book. Insightful interviews are presented with professionals who are giving killer product demos in several types of businesses today. The strategies taught in....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Navigating Hybrid Scrum Environments: Understanding the Essentials, Avoiding the Pitfalls
Author Frederik M. Fowler
Know the details of each part of Scrum so you can understand the purpose each part serves in the framework. Many books describe the “what” part of Scrum, but few explain the “why." Every part of the Scrum framework is important. You need to know the purpose behind ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Great Big Agile: An OS for Agile Leaders
Author Jeff Dalton
Big Agile leaders need an empirical, "high-trust" model that provides guidance for scaling and sustaining agility and capability throughout a modern technology organization. This book presents the Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)—a "how-ability" model that pro....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Lead With Your Customer, 2nd Edition:Transform Culture and Brand into World-Class Excellence
Author J. Jeff Kober , Mark David Jones
Your one-stop shop for world-class resultsThe most admired organizations in the world have the same basic resources that you have—offices, computers, pencils, pens, phones, Internet, people. The primary difference is the way they use those resources. How do success....
Release Date 2019/02 -
The Concise PRINCE2® - Principles and Essential Themes, 3rd Edition
Author Colin Bentley
This guide explains the fundamental principles of PRINCE2 2017, enabling you to review essential themes before taking your PRINCE2 Foundation exam. Following accreditation, it serves as a reference guide to help you manage ongoing PRINCE2 projects within your organ....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Managerial Communication for Organizational Development
Author Professor Emeritus Jeanette S. Martin , Professor Reginald L. Bell
Managerial Communication for Organizational Development provides clarity for top, middle, and frontline managers on paramount communication issues It helps them anticipate and respond to communication challenges managers face daily. Challenges occur rapidly and with....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Managerial Communication for Professional Development
Author Professor Emeritus Jeanette S. Martin , Professor Reginald L. Bell
Managerial Communication for Professional Development offers a unique functions approach to managerial skills.It explores what the communication managers actually do in business across the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling functions when p....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Author Dr. Alan S. Gutterman
A wide range of conceptualizations of "management" have been offered and it is often difficult for managers to fully understand their roles within the organization; however, managers striving for effectiveness would do well to invest effort into understanding the f....
Release Date 2019/03