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The wonderful, horrible truth about Agile
Author Matt LeMay
This lesson focuses on strategies and approaches that will help guide you through the successful implementation of any practices, processes, and frameworks that could fall under the broad banner of “Agile.” Show and hide more
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Great Customer Experience Starts with Product Management
Author Matt LeMay
From a customer’s standpoint, every interaction with a product or brand is just part of a connected experience. But for many companies, individual touchpoints, channels, and products are often treated as disconnected silos. How can your organization connect and ali....
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Author Jennifer Greene , Andrew Stellman
This lesson describes the principles that agile teams use to make decisions about how to run their projects. We’ll show you the purpose and idea behind each of the principles, illustrating them with a practical example from a software project. Show and hide ....
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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 -
Author Sonya Renee Taylor
The Body Is Not an ApologyThe Power of Radical Self-LoveAgainst a global backdrop of war, social upheaval, and personal despair, there is a growing sense of urgency to challenge the systems of oppression that dehumanize bodies and strip us of our shared humani....
Release Date 2018/02 -
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....
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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 -
Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition
Author Jeffrey K. Pinto
This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed. For project management courses. Project management fund....
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Author Phillip Ledbetter
Much has been written about Toyota over the last 30 years focusing on both its products (superior vehicles), and its operational excellence based on its Toyota Production System (TPS). The Toyota Template details the critical concepts and methods that Taiichi Ohno ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Jean Dahl
Going digital is essential for companies looking to survive and thrive in today’s global economy, but many organizations lack the leadership necessary to launch an ambitious digital transformation. With this report, you’ll learn how thinking based on Agile software....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Andy Oram
Organizations across all industries are attempting to capitalize on the promise of Big Data by using their information assets as a source of competitive advantage. In doing so, they are investing heavily in areas such as analytic tools and new storage capabilities.....
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Author James Kalbach
Customers who have inconsistent, broken experiences with products and services are understandably frustrated. But it’s worse when people inside these companies can’t pinpoint the problem because they’re too focused on business processes. In this lesson, product and....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Project Procurement: A Real-World Guide for Procurement Skills
Author Ajay Bhargove
Project Procurement: A Real-World Guide to Procurement Skills provides insight into the procurement community across sectors and across the globe. Here, the author covers the most widely used techniques and methods for supplier management, including supplier qualif....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition
Author Alex Gonzalez
Over 79 hands-on recipes for professional embedded Linux developers to optimize and boost their Yocto Project know-howAbout This BookOptimize your Yocto setup to speed up development and debug build issuesUse what is quickly becoming the standard embedded Linux pro....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Jira Software Essentials - Second Edition
Author Patrick Li
Explore Jira Software to manage your projects proficientlyAbout This BookPlan and manage projects effortlessly with Jira Software by integrating it with other applicationsImprove your team's performance with Scrum and Kanban, together with agile methodologyEasy-to....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Project Management and Leadership Challenges, Volume I
Author M. Aslam Mirza
Project management has evolved to a profession, a methodology for reaching the desired outcomes, a management approach for moving toward strategic direction, and a mindset. It supports an organization to effectively withstand the market challenges and sustain growt....
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Improving Agile Retrospectives: Helping Teams Become More Efficient, 1/e
Author Marc Loeffler
Retrospectives are a key pillar of successful agile adoption and transformation, and an indispensable tool for changing culture. They’re not only valuable in an agile context: they can be used whenever continuous improvement processes are needed, from “lessons-lear....
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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....
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Author David Shiers , Miles Keeping
An inside view of how one of the world's leading architecture and engineering practice does businessSustainable Built Environments: Principles and Practice offers detailed, environmentally sound design solutions to a wide range of building engineering challenges. ....
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Author Peter Nash
Improve the Effectiveness of your Product Control FunctionEffective Product Control is a detailed how-to guide covering everything you need to know about the function. Considered essential reading for: New controllers entering the professionAuditors and regulators ....
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Electrical Calculations and Guidelines for Generating Station and Industrial Plants
Author Thomas E. Baker
"This is really a practical, hands-on book for the working engineer."—Phillip Wheeler, former Southern California Edison supervising electrical apparatus engineer and regional IEEE PES/IAS leaderA very helpful tool for solving circuit protection problems, Electrical....
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Author Aswin Pranam
Gain all of the techniques, teachings, tools, and methodologies required to be an effective first-time product manager. The overarching goal of this book is to help you understand the product manager role, give you concrete examples of what a product manager does, ....
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Understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile
Author Jonny Schneider
Highly touted methodologies, such as Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking, leave many organizations bamboozled by an unprecedented array of processes, tools, and methods for digital product development. Many teams meet their peril trying to make sense of these options.....
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Author Rick Freedman
Today’s digital revolution is disrupting the way established companies do business, causing a great deal of anxiety among corporate CEOs. But disruption, while demanding, can be a positive force in your company. Many enterprises have responded by adopting Agile sof....
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Author Jim Bird
In this report, author Jim Bird explains how organizations can move to DevOps by building on their existing investments in Agile development. The DevOps approach, practices, and tools all build on and extend Agile, and the two methodologies require the same kind of....
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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....
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The PMI Guide to Business Analysis
Author Project Management Institute
The PMI Guide to Business Analysis is a new PMI foundational standard, developed as a basis for business analysis for portfolio, program, and project management. This standard illustrates how project management processes and business analysis processes are compleme....
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A Practical Guide for Holistic Project Management
Author Lex van der Heijden
Project management is a multidisciplinary profession requiring not only knowledge and experience but also a lot of personal skills. A project is defined as: A temporary organisation that is created for the purpose of delivÂering one or more business products a....
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Author Mike Hoogveld
An environment that is changing ever faster and deeper; markets that are becoming more dynamic and complex; competitor and customer behavior that is increasingly unpredictable—these developments are affecting all organizations. Whoever wants to survive in the....
Release Date 2017/12