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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 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 Joseph A. Michelli
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS!You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks success lies in its ability to create personalized customer experiences, stimulate business growth, generate profi....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Developing Government Policy Capability
Author Dr. Chivonne Algeo , Dr. Vanessa McDermott , Henry Linger , Dr. James Connor , Dr. J
The creation of public and government policy presents a “wicked” problem because it tends to be highly contested, involves many different stakeholders, and yields outcomes that change and evolve over time. Developing Government Policy Capability examin....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Author Henrik Kniberg
You know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is ....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Landlording on AutoPilot, 2nd Edition
Author Mike Butler
Simplify Your Landlord Experience with Smart Strategies and Smarter Tools“Without Landlording on Autopilot, I doubt I would have ever succeeded with rental properties. Mike's book guided my business every step of the way, and I owe a huge debt to Mike for his insi....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Author Jennifer Greene , Andrew Stellman
Head First Agile is a complete guide to learning real-world agile ideas, practices, principles.What will you learn from this book?In Head First Agile, you'll learn all about the ideas behind agile and the straightforward practices that drive it. You'll take deep ....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Agile Testing Foundations: An ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester guide
Author Rex Black
Agile is an iterative approach to software development that has rapidly gained popularity in the wider IT industry. For software testers, Agile testing brings many advantages to teams, from increasing overall product quality to providing greater scope for flexibili....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Illustrating PRINCE2 - Project Management in Real Terms
Author Susan Tuttle
Enjoy effective and profitable projects with PRINCE2®PRINCE2® is a versatile project management method that can be tailored to any project, of any size, in any environment, by any company. It is widely recognized and extensively used. This book will show you how PRI....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Adaptable Project Management – A combination of Agile and Project Management for All (PM4A)
Author Colin Bentley
Adaptable Project Management – A combination of Agile and Project Management for All (PM4A) dispels the myth that Agile approaches to project management can only be used for software development. It gives advice on how to combine the benefits of Agile and waterfall projec....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Author Richard E. Zultner , Peter C. Patton , Bijay K. Jayaswal
Leading companies around the world, including Toyota and General Electric, have practiced Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for decades. Developed in Japan by Dr. Yoji Akao and Dr. Shigeru Mizuno, QFD has two aims: to ensure that true customer needs are properly dep....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Scrum For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Author Mark C. Layton , Steven J. Ostermiller , Dean J. Kynaston
Learn how scrum can help in every part of your lifeScrum—an organizing approach that exposes work progress and quality —is used all over the place in software development, but it’s not just for coders. Scrum For Dummies shows you how scrum can improve performance regardless of your industry or proje....
Release Date 2022/11 -
Author Mark Graban
Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology an....
Release Date 2016/06 -
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 -
Author Andrew Stellman , Jennifer Greene
Agile has become popular with software teams because the ones that have “gone agile” often talk about the great results they get. The software they build is better, which makes a big difference to them and their users. Not only that, but when agile teams are effect....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Barry O'Reilly , Jez Humble , Joanne Molesky
Implementing an enterprise-level continuous improvement process is a prerequisite for any ongoing large-scale transformation effort (such as adopting an agile approach to software delivery) at scale. True continuous improvement never ends because, as our organizati....
Release Date 2018/02 -
VMware Workstation – No Experience Necessary
Author Sander Van Vugt
Get started from scratch with Vmware Workstation using this essential guide. Taking you from installation on Windows or Linux through to advanced virtual machine features, you’ll be setting up a test environment in no time.Create virtual machines on Linux and Window....
Release Date 2013/08 -
The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2010 Edition
Author Brian Fairrington , Daryl Cagle
The Best of the Year in Editorial CartoonsThe best cartoonists in the world contributed to this collection of the best cartoons of 2009, from Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index, the most popular cartoon site on the Web (www.cagle.com). More than 600 cartoons....
Release Date 2009/09 -
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 -
Author Matt LeMay
In a narrow sense, product managers work with designers and developers to build and maintain a company’s products. But product managers work best when they reach across organizational silos to connect internal stakeholders with your business goals—while ensuring th....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Hearing the Voice of the Customer
Author Bill Inmon
Increase the awareness of your customer's behavior to survive and excel within your industry. One hundred years ago, the voice of the customer was easily and routinely heard by the shopkeeper. In small towns, the shopkeeper knew everyone. Today's world has gott....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Julian Birkinshaw
In this article, the author examines agile as a management practice through a case study of ING bank in the Netherlands, which has adopted agile across its headquarters in Amsterdam. The research is based on in-depth interviews with 15 ING executives and many front....
Release Date 2018/01 -
McGraw-Hill Education ACP Agile Certified Practitioner Exam
Author Klaus Nielsen
We want to help you succeed on the Agile Certified Practitioner ExamMcGraw-Hill Education: Agile Certified Practitioner Exam helps you prepare for this important test and earn the certification that will advance your career. Written by a project manager and trainer....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Author Dave West , Patricia Kong , Kurt Bittner
Improve and Accelerate Software Delivery for Large, Distributed, Complex ProjectsThe Nexus Framework is the simplest, most effective approach to applying Scrum at scale across multiple teams, sites, and time zones. Created by Scrum.org—the pioneering Scrum training....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Donnel B. Stern
In this powerful and wonderfully accessible meditation on psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and social constructivism, Donnel Stern explores the relationship between two fundamental kinds of experience: explicit verbal reflection and "unformulated experience," or ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
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 -
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 -
Author John R. Henry
Defined as the total process of converting a line or process from one product to another, changeover will not only help your organization improve quality and flexibility, but it will save thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars per hour.Achieving L....
Release Date 2012/12 -
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