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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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development: How To Lead Your Team Remotely
Author Benjamin Jakobus , Pedro Henrique Lobato Sena , Claudio Souza
If you are asking yourself Why are my engineers unable to deliver?, Why are so many engineers leaving? or Why is our software riddled with bugs?, then you've come to the right place. This book acts as a concise, practical guide on how to lead successful agile projects in a remote environment. ....
Release Date 2022/12 -
Author Barry Flicker
Everyone is a project manager-projects are what all of us do day in and day out. Skillful project management is fundamental to survival in today's warp-speed world. Yet it is often misunderstood, leading to unrealistic deadlines, poorly defined goals, and wasted ti....
Release Date 2002/03 -
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 -
CMMI for Development: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement, Third Edition
Author Mike Konrad , Mary Beth Chrissis , Sandra Shrum
CMMI® for Development (CMMI-DEV) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their entire lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI-DEV provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations ....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Designing the Requirements: Building Applications that the User Wants and Needs
Author Chris Britton
This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.Too many software applications don’t do what’s needed or they do it clumsily, frustrating their users and owners. The core problem: poorly conceived and poorly crafted requirements. In Designing the Requirements, Chr....
Release Date 2015/10 -
SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises, Second edition
Author Dean Leffingwell
The Must-have Reference Guide for SAFe® Professionals“There are a lot of methods of scale out there, but the Scaled Agile Framework is the one lighting up the world.”–Steve Elliot, Founder/CEO AgileCraft“Since beginning our Lean-Agile journey with SAFe, Vantiv has ....
Release Date 2018/05 -
A Manager’s Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best Practices
Author Michael B. Bender
There are plenty of books about project management, but this is the first one written for the people who have the most at stake: the senior executives who will ultimately be held accountable for the successes of the projects they approve and supervise. Top enterpris....
Release Date 2009/07 -
PMP® Project Management Professional Exam: Review Guide
Author Vanina Mangano , Kim Heldman
A concise, focused study aid aimed at preparing you for PMP certificationThe Project Management Profressional (PMP) certification is the most desired skill in today's IT marketplace and candidates are required to have thousands of hours of PM experience even before....
Release Date 2009/07 -
Author Eric Ries , Patrick Vlaskovits , Brant Cooper
Leverage the framework of visionaries to innovate, disrupt, and ultimately succeed as an entrepreneurThe Lean Entrepreneur, Second Edition banishes the "Myth of the Visionary" and shows you how you can implement proven, actionable techniques to create products and ....
Release Date 2016/03 -
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 Matthew B. Doar
One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—sh....
Release Date 2011/07 -
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 -
An Introduction to Lean Work Design
Author Matthias Thürer , Lawrence D. Fredendall
This book provides a short, concise overview of lean work design, which sees lean systems as the result of a systematic implementation of appropriate work processes. It discusses lean tools, but views tools only as a means of achieving a desirable work design and do....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value, Volume II
Author Steven A. Melnyk , Robert P. Sroufe
Sustainability is changing and changing rapidly. It is becoming more widespread as companies and customers uncover its power and at¬tractiveness and sustainability also receiving more attention in the press. Support for sustainability lies within new tools, fr....
Release Date 2017/08 -
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 -
50 Top IT Project Management Challenges
Author Premi Shiv , Premanand Doraiswamy
A summary of the challenges facing today's IT project managerDiscussions on project management forums highlight many of the challenges facing a project manager during the course of a project. Unclear requirements, scope creep and undefined roles are well-trodden is....
Release Date 2012/02 -
Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title
Author James Wood , Suzette Blakemore , Kory Kogon
No project management training? No problem! In today’s workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are, you aren’t formally trained in managing projects—you’re an unofficial project manage....
Release Date 2015/04 -
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 -
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 -
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Plain & Simple
Author Michelle Lopez Johnathan Lightfoot and Scott Metker
Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft SharePoint 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to get things done.Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:Create libraries for all ....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author David L Pells , Luiz Rocha , Paul C Dinsmore
New projects are the key to ensuring an organization’s growth and as we enter an increasingly competitive global economy, companies of all stripes struggle to effectively govern the multiplicity of projects needed to survive and prosper.
Release Date 2012/03 -
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 -
Author Steve Katzman
Operational Assessment of IT presents ideas and concepts of optimization designed to improve an organization's business processes and assist business units in meeting organizational goals more effectively. Rather than focus on specific technologies, computing envi....
Release Date 2016/03