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1. |  Agile Career Development: Lessons and Approaches from IBM By: Mary Ann Bopp; Diana A. Bing; Sheila Forte-Trammell Publisher: IBM Press Publication Date: 17-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 27-AUG-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Agile Career Development: Lessons and Approaches from IBM This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.Supercharge Performance by Linking
Employee-Driven Career Development with Business GoalsHow do you make career development work for
both the employee and the business? IBM® has done it by
tightly linking employee-driven career development programs with
corporate goals. In Agile Career Development, three
of IBM’s leading HR innovators show how IBM has accomplished
this by illustrating various lessons and approaches that can be
applied to other organizations as well. This book is for every HR
professional, learning or training manager,...
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Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point By: Mary Poppendieck; Tom Poppendieck Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 30-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2009 | Overview: Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point Building on the foundation of Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s
two bestselling books on lean software development, Leading
Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point
addresses six areas of focus that are critical to leading sustained
excellence in system development.
Written for managers who want to move beyond initial successes with
agile practices, this engaging and concise book shows how
successful organizations frame each of these key areas.
Starting with a chapter on “systems thinking” that
investigates how work actually works, and a chapter on
“technical excellence” that covers the...
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Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility By: Alan Shalloway; Guy Beaver; James R. Trott Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 23-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 13-AUG-2009 | Overview: Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility Agile techniques have demonstrated immense
potential for developing more-effective, higher-quality software.
However, scaling these techniques to the enterprise has been
challenging. The solution is to integrate the principles and
practices of Lean Software Development with Agile’s ideology
and methods. By doing so, software organizations leverage
Lean’s powerful capabilities for “optimizing the
whole” and managing complex enterprise projects.A combined “Lean-Agile” approach
can dramatically improve both developer productivity and the
software’s business value. In this book, three expert...
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Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love By: Roman Pichler Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 05-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 28-JUL-2009 | Overview: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love This book is the product owner’s
guide to creating successful products with Scrum, and the first
book solely devoted to agile product management. The book discusses
the role of the product owner in detail together with helpful
concepts and techniques including envisioning the product, stocking
and grooming the product backlog, planning and tracking the
project, working with the team on a day-to-day basis, and
transitioning into the new role. This practical guide enables the
reader to apply agile product management techniques effectively in
Scrum....
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5. |  Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Second Edition By: Jim Highsmith Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 10-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 28-JUL-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Best practices for managing projects in
agile environments–now updated with new techniques for larger
projects
Today, the pace of project management moves
faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far
more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM),
project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising
value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project
Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith
thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and...
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6. |  Becoming Agile: ... in an imperfect world By: Greg Smith; Ahmed Sidky Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 01-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 19-JUL-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Becoming Agile: ... in an imperfect world
Agile principles have been a breath of fresh air to many development teams stuck in the middle of a rigid, process-driven environment. Unfortunately, it's not so easy to bring Agile into an existing organization with established people and practices. Becoming Agile shows you practical techniques and strategies to move from your existing process to an Agile process without starting from scratch.
Many books discuss Agile from a theoretical or academic perspective. Becoming Agile takes a different approach and focuses on explaining Agile from a ground-level point-of-view. Author Greg Smith,...
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Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum By: Mike Cohn Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 30-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2009 | Overview: Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum Starting the transition to an agile
development process like Scrum is easy; succeeding with Scrum and
becoming a genuinely agile organization is harder. Not only does
Scrum introduce new ways of working, it requires new ways of
thinking about that work. Becoming agile is an arduous process
that, done right, necessitates a mindset shift not only for
individuals and their teams, but also throughout the broader
organization. Succeeding with Agile provides actionable insight to
help organizations overcome the challenges that can and will arise
in the wake of these changes.From leading agile...
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8. |  Building the Agile Enterprisewith SOA, BPM and MPM By: Fred A. Cummins Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 05-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building the Agile Enterprisewith SOA, BPM and MPM In the last ten years IT has brought fundamental changes to the way
the world works. Not only has it increased the speed of operations
and communications, but it has also undermined basic assumptions of
traditional business models and increased the number of variables.
Today, the survival of major corporations is challenged by a
world-wide marketplace, international operations, outsourcing,
global communities, a changing workforce, security threats,
business continuity, web visibility, and customer expectations.
Enterprises must constantly adapt or they will be unable to
compete.
Fred...
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9. |  By: Jochen Krebs Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 30-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 23-JAN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Agile Portfolio Managment Find out how your company s full project portfolio can benefit from
the principles of agility from an expert on agile processes. Agile
software development is now more popular than ever, but agility
doesn t need to stop there. This guide takes a big-picture look at
how portfolio managers and project managers can make use of proven
agile development methods to increase organizational
efficiency.
It can be difficult for companies to manage multiple development
teams and to ensure that they are in line with evolving corporate
strategies. Agile project-management methods help you build...
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10. |  Agile Project Management with Scrum By: Ken Schwaber Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2004 Insert Date: 20-JAN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Agile Project Management with Scrum Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile
programming methods, to software project management—and focus
your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a
leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum,
brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and
software development process more effectively and efficiently. Help
eliminate the ambiguity into which so many software projects are
borne, where vision and planning documents are essentially thrown
over the wall to developers. This high-level reference describes
how to use Scrum...
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