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January 2024Scrum Think big
Scrum für wirklich große Projekte, viele Teams und viele Kulturen
by Gloger, Boris; Rasche, Carsten
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Computing & ITNovember 2022Agile Games And Simulations
Field-tested games for Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters. Including many games for online workshops
by Marc Bleß, Dennis Wagner
Games and simulations are important tools for agile coaches and scrum masters and belong in the toolbox of agile facilitators. This book describes a selection of agile games that have proven particularly useful in practice. The games illustrate agile principles and practices. Marc Bleß and Dennis Wagner - both of whom have worked as agile coaches for many years - first explain what needs to be considered when facilitating agile games and when which game can be used. Games are then presented that serve to teach agile principles, simulate agile practices, or facilitate communication. In addition, the book describes games for opening, loosening up and closing agile workshops as well as some energizers for in between. This expansion of the paperback »Agile Games – In A Nutshell« contains a number of new games and the new chapter »Technical Skills« with games for teaching agile development practices. In addition, the authors show which games can also be played online and what should be considered when doing so in principle.
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Computing & ITEvery Team Is Different
by Holger Koschek, Markus Trbojevic
Team development is a continuous, complex process. In addition to empathy for the situation and the current needs of the team, it requires a coordinated, step-by-step approach and constant reflection from the team coach. The role of the team coach is hidden behind many names: Team Leader, Project Leader, People Lead, Scrum Master, Agile Coach or Team Member. "Every Team is Different" serves as a guide for sustainable team development and consists of three parts that build on each other: After clarifying the concept of a team and the basic attitudes and roles of a team coach, team personas illustrate typical behaviour in teams. They support the team coach in assessing the situation in their team and determining the next development step by naming the associated possible fields of action. The topics in detail: - Dealing with disruptions - Determining the next development step - Determining fields of action - Planning and implementing measures - Reflecting on effectiveness and own attitude - Developing as a team coach - Finding the right tools The book provides team coaches with valuable suggestions for their daily work and helps them to continuously develop both the team and themselves, while taking good care of themselves.
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FictionA Heart Too Big
by Eider Rodríguez
UN CORAZÓN DEMASIADO GRANDE (A Heart Too Big), is a wonderful book of short stories by Eider Rodríguez. The book was published in 2018 in Basque and in 2019 in Spanish and Catalan (Literatura Random House and Edicions del Periscopi). Eider Rodríguez (1977) writes in Basque and translates herself into Spanish. The Basque edition was awarded the Euskadi Prize for Literature (the most prestigious in the Basque language) and the Booksellers of the Basque Country Prize (alongside with Vivian Gornik’s Fierce Attachments). Great reviews have appeared in the most influential and prestigious Spanish literary supplements (Babelia, El Cultural, ABC, La Vanguardia). El País/Babelia chose the book as ‘Book of the week’. And the author has been compared to other talended writers such as John Cheever, Samantha Swheblin, Sara Mesa or Raymond Carver. The editions in Catalan and Spanish consist of the complete translation of Eider Rodríguez's last book of stories in Basque (also entitled A Heart Too Big, which is about 120 pages) followed by a selection of stories from the three previous books by Eider Rodríguez. Un corazón demasiado grande was included in the list of Best Books of 2019 by newspapers as El País and ABC.
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FictionThe Psychedelic Traveller
Short Stories
by ANTHONY JAMES
A collection of short stories from adventures and fantastic imaginings aroud the world. Each story is set in a different country, from Brazil to Siberia, from new Zealand to India. Each story is a cameo in itself, each one of a different mood, be it playful, or dark, of conflict or good humour. Stories will remind those who travel widely of the pitfalls and opportunities and remind all the readers that there is nothing more wonderful than this wonderful world and the ppeople in it.
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October 2020Details Are Unprintable
Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Cafe Society Murder
by Allan Levine
The body of 22-year-old New York City socialite Patricia Burton Lonergan was found in her bedroom. Charged with her death was her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan. Details Are Unprintable is a suspenseful account that builds from the moment the body was discovered in October 1943 to Lonergan’s conviction in April 1944. The case focused on the tantalizing rumor that Lonergan, a 26-year-old cadet and playboy, was a “homosexual,” who killed his wife in a fit of rage when she removed him from her will. Part fast-paced drama and part social history, this is a chronicle of Lonergan in denial living in an intolerant world, contrasted with the life of his entitled wife. What truly happened on that tragic night? Should we accept Lonergan’s confession as the jury did? Or was he a victim of physical and mental abuse by the state prosecutors and the police, as he maintained for the rest of his life?
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FictionBut A Dream
by Jenny Gill
A tale of intrigue and mystery – No 3 in the South Hill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey to the south of London, though each books stands alone. Mags has struggled nearly all her life with heart disease. After she gives birth her health deteriorates, necessitating a transplant. She is given a vast array of medication to take daily. When her doctor changes some of her medication she starts having a frightening recurring dream. In addition she finds she has developed an interest in the game of rugby, and that her tastes in food have changed. Then the dream moves along and she finds herself not only an eye-witness to a murder but also the victim.
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Knowledge managementHyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance
The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban
by Steve Tendon & Wolfram Muller
This unique reference shows how to lead knowledge workers, manage knowledge work and build a hyper-productive knowledge work organization, by taming and managing the four flows of organizational performance (psychology, information, work, and finance) to produce spectacular operational and financial throughput results. Inspired by his experience and knowledge gained at Borland International, where a hyper-productive level of performance was achieved resulting in the most productive software project ever documented, author Steve Tendon devised “TameFlow”—an approach that can be superimposed on any preexisting process, method, and practice to enable performance improvement by several orders of magnitude, and a state of hyper-productivity. Adaptable to nearly every industry and applicable to any knowledge work domain or organization that generates business value through knowledge. TameFlow blends different ideas from a variety of schools of thought. It is founded in pattern theory and organizational performance patterns which are used to analyze and decompose processes, methodologies, and management practices into constituent parts to observe productivity patterns, and then recombined in new configurations to enable hyper-productive levels of performance. In this volume of The TameFlow Hyper-Productivity Series, the TameFlow approach is explained within the context of knowledge work performed in a software development organization. Mr. Tendon teams up with author, Wolfram Müller, a thought-leader and expert in Critical Chain and Advanced Agile Project Management, to demonstrate how constraints management (TOC) can improve Scrum and Kanban in powerful ways, bringing more predictability of behavior of the system as a whole, as well as to the individuals involved. Their combination becomes a breeding ground for the development of Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust. Both Scrum and Kanban (a method used for knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery and change management) can be extended with features of the TOC, and help create a hyper-productive organization.
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Project managementAgile Productivity Unleashed
Proven approaches for achieving real productivity gains in any organization
by Jamie Lynn Cooke
Agile Productivity Unleashed presents the range of proven Agile methods including Scrum®, Kanban, Feature Driven Development™ (FDD™) and the Dynamic Systems Development Method® (DSDM®) in clear business language. The author then devotes a chapter to explaining each of the 12 Agile Principles that make these approaches consistently successful, and details how to use these methods to tackle the core challenges faced by every organization.
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Project managementAgile SAP
Introducing flexibility, transparency and speed to SAP implementations
by Sean Robson
Invaluable practical advice Many SAP projects use waterfall methodologies, but these often run into budgeting and scheduling problems. In this unique book, Sean Robson presents ways of improving SAP implementations and offers practical advice on the most effective way to see a project through from beginning to end. Basing his strategies on the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto, and drawing on his vast experience, he particularly focuses on the use of Scrum and Kanban and their suitability for certain types of projects, enabling you to select the most appropriate method for the task in hand. Apply it to your projectsAs you read this book, you will understand how to: Bring your SAP projects in on time and within budget Build more flexibility and transparency in to your implementations, enabling you to adapt more quickly to your clients' needs Realize cost savings as you analyze your expenditure, reduce waste and increase efficiencies in the delivery cycle Increase customer loyalty as you adopt 'best practice' in order to maintain consistently high standards Work more effectively as you increase collaboration within the company and reduce the stress that so often accompanies large-scale projects Improve clarity of requirements and eliminate unnecessary paperwork.
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Project managementProject Management the Agile Way
Making it Work in the Enterprise
by John C. Goodpasture, PMP
Project Management the Agile Way is an agile project management book written for experienced project managers, architects and systems analysts who are comfortable in traditional methods of project management but now need to learn about agile methods for software projects and understand how to make agile work effectively in the enterprise. The methodologies included under the agile umbrella go by many names, such as Scrum, XP, Crystal and EVO, to name a few. Project managers will gain practical day-to-day tips and advice on how to apply these practices to mainstream projects and how to integrate these methods with other methodologies used in the enterprise.. Key Features: Offers a review of most of the popular agile and iterative methodologies for project management Presents practical tips and application advice for how to harmonize agile and iterative methods with mainstream project processes Describes how earned value can work with non-traditional methods Explains how to scale agile and iterative methods for enterprise projects Shows the means to contract and outsource with agile and iterative methods Provides guidance to build a business case and track post-project benefits
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Project managementEffective Complex Project Management
An Adaptive Agile Framework for Delivering Business Value
by Robert K. Wysocki, Ph.D.
With technology continuing to invade the business world and the convergence of complexity, uncertainty, and constant change, a whole new class of projects has emerged for which traditional project management models such as Waterfall are totally insufficient. These are called complex projects. Extreme Project Management models and a variety of Agile Project Management models such as Scrum, Rational Unified Process, Feature-Driven Development, and Dynamic Systems Development Method have emerged, but project failure rates have not been measurably reduced. Effective Complex Project Management offers a proven solution to managing any project that must succeed in the face of organizational complexity and market uncertainty, in the form of an adaptive complex project framework. Developed, refined, and validated through 20+ years of client experiences and feedback from project management thought leaders, this framework and robust methodology has demonstrated a favorable impact on project and program management success rates. Dr. Wysocki demonstrates that for program and project managers to be consistently successful in managing complex projects, they need to include in their project management portfolio of processes an adaptive framework that continuously analyzes and adapts to changing and modifying conditions even to the point of changing project management models mid-project. The author’s adaptive complex project framework is currently the only robust tool to offer an orderly approach to do just that. When applied and managed correctly, this intuitive framework that proceeds from ideation to set-up to execution has proven to deliver on the purpose of programs and projects without fail, in the form of desired business value.
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Computer scienceJanuary 2011Building the Agile Database
How to Build a Successful Application Using Agile Without Sacrificing Data Management
by Larry Burns
Hear the author, Larry Burns, talk about his book. Is fast development the enemy of good development? Not necessarily. Agile development requires that databases are designed and built quickly enough to meet fast-based delivery schedules - but in a way that also delivers maximum business value and reuse. How can these requirements both be satisfied? This book, suitable for practitioners at all levels, will explain how to design and build enterprise-quality high-value databases within the constraints of an Agile project. Starting with an overview of the business case for good data management practices, the book defines the various stakeholder groups involved in the software development process, explains the economics of software development (including "time to market" vs. "time to money"), and describes an approach to Agile database development based on the five PRISM principles. This book explains how to work with application developers and other stakeholders, examines critical issues in Agile Development and Data Management, and describes how developers and data professionals can work together to make Agile projects successful while delivering maximum value data to the enterprise. Building the Agile Database will serve as an excellent reference for application developers, data managers, DBAs, project managers, Scrum Masters and IT managers looking to get more value from their development efforts. Larry Burns has worked in IT for more than 25 years as a database administrator, application developer, consultant and teacher.
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Computing: generalAgile
An Executive Guide : Real Results from It Budgets
by Jamie Lynn. Cooke
The true power of Agile methodologies is not technology; it is business value generation. Use Agile methodologies to turn your IT solution challenges into high business-value returns All too often, IT solutions are plagued by budget overruns, missed deadlines, low-quality outputs and dissatisfied users. Agile methodologies are proven, common-sense methods for substantially increasing the relevance, flexibility and bottom-line business value of your software solutions. Quantify and measure the benefits that Agile methodologies can deliver to your organisation. Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, DSDM, FDD, Lean, XP and Kanban, are proven approaches for applying the finite resources of an organisation to deliver high business-value software solutions on time and within allocated budgets. These methodologies protect organisations from wasting their IT budgets by replacing large upfront financial commitments withincremental investmentbased on the ongoing business value of delivered software. They encourage collaboration with key stakeholders, empower staff to regularly deliver bottom-line value, and ensure that IT solutions are responsive to ongoing organisational and market changes. Read this guide and … Understand the 10 core business benefits of Agile. At the heart of Agile methodologies are 10 core business benefits that enable organisations to maximise their IT investments, including: Better risk management, ongoing control of budget expenditure, better alignment with business requirements, and substantially higher quality IT solutions.Agile: An Executive Guidedetails each of these benefits from a strategic senior management perspective. Identify which Agile methodologies align with the specific needs of your organisation. Agile: An Executive Guideprovides you with tools to assess your organisational culture, structure and dynamic in order to determine whether Agile methodologies are suitable to your specific needs, and to select those Agile methodologies that are the best fit for your organisation. Get the essential information you need to implement Agile within your organisation. Agile: An Executive Guideis full of practical advice, including detailed guidelines to help you: Choose the right kick-off point for Agile within your organisation; avoid common traps; monitor and measure your investment; and broaden the use of Agile methodologies into other areas of your organisation. It includes step-by-step guidelines, interactive tools and targeted questionnaires to help you and your staff successfully implement these methodologies. Agile: An Executive Guidedescribes Agile methodologies in clear business language specifically written for business professionals. It will help you make realistic business-driven decisions on whether Agile methodologies are appropriate for your organisation; whether you are looking to consolidate your IT overheads, to provide better software solutions to your clients, or to have more control over your IT expenditures. This guide provides practical, proven ways to introduce, incorporate and leverage Agile methodologies to maximise your business returns.
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November 2017Angst
by Adriana Riva
Angst is a novel filled with sensitive and sophisticated images that are the result of the singular gaze of the author, skillful in the sewing together of metaphors and esthetic associations of rare originality. When literature grants us the privilege of witnessing these findings, the reading experience transforms into pure emotion; we find ourselves vulnerable in front of weird and valuable pieces that we graze with our fingertips just to test if they’re real. Beautiful and real. Her stories go beyond the dramatic experience; the proposal is to elevate them through the aesthetics of a refined and silky prose that will remain within the reader's sensibility and memory as a luminous work of art. Margarita García Robayo
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Computer scienceSeptember 2013Extreme Scoping
by Larissa T. Moss
Do your business intelligence (BI) projects take too long to deliver? Is the value of the deliverables less than satisfactory? Do these projects propagate poor data management practices? If you screamed "yes" to any of these questions, read this book to master a proven approach to building your enterprise data warehouse and BI initiatives. Extreme Scoping, based on the Business Intelligence Roadmap, will show you how to build analytics applications rapidly yet not sacrifice data management and enterprise architecture. In addition, all of the roles required to deliver all seven steps of this agile methodology are explained along with many real-world examples. From Wayne Eckerson's Foreword I've read many books about data warehousing and business intelligence (BI). This book by Larissa Moss is one of the best. I should not be surprised. Larissa has spent years refining the craft of designing, building, and delivering BI applications. Over the years, she has developed a keen insight about what works and doesn't work in BI. This book brings to light the wealth of that development experience. Best of all, this is not some dry text that laboriously steps readers through a technical methodology. Larissa expresses her ideas in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner. I highlighted so many beautifully written and insightful paragraphs in her manuscript that it became comical. I desperately wanted the final, published book rather than the manuscript so I could dog-ear it to death and place it front-and-center in my office bookshelf! From David Well's Foreword Extreme Scoping is rich with advice and guidance for virtually every aspect of BI projects from planning and requirements to deployment and from back-end data management to front-end information and analytics services. Larissa is both a pragmatist and an independent thinker. Those qualities come through in the style of this book. Extreme Scoping is a well-written book that is easy to absorb. It is not full of surprises. It is filled with a lot of common sense and lessons learned through experience. Larissa Moss is founder and president of Method Focus Inc. She began her IT career over 30 years ago, and since 1988 she has worked primarily in data warehousing and business intelligence. She is a world renown author, lecturer, and speaker on the topics of data warehousing, business intelligence, master data management, project management, methodologies, data governance, and enterprise information management. She co-authored the books Data Warehouse Project Management, Impossible Data Warehouse Situations, Business Intelligence Roadmap, and Data Strategy.
