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1. |  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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2. |  By: Barrie G. Dale; Ton van der Wiele; Jos van Iwaarden Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 12-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 08-JUN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Quality
Managing Quality, Fifth Edition is an essential resource for students and practitioners alike.
This popular and highly successful introduction to Quality Management has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field
Includes new chapters on Improvement Approaches, Six Sigma, and new challenges in Quality Management
Combines the latest information on the ISO 9000 quality management system series standards with up-to-date tools, techniques and quality systems
Material has been re-ordered and changes to terminology have been made to bring the book...
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3. |  It Compliance And Controls: Best Practices for Implementation Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 04-APR-2008 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: It Compliance And Controls: Best Practices for Implementation
IT Compliance and Controls offers a structured architectural approach, a 'blueprint in effect,' for new and seasoned executives and business professionals alike to understand the world of compliance?from the perspective of what the problems are, where they come from, and how to position your company to deal with them today and into the future.
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4. |  Essentials of Enterprise Compliance By: Susan D. Conway; Mara E. Conway Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essentials of Enterprise Compliance
Expert guidance for a proven compliance framework
Governing the Think Factory provides readers with an in-depth look at organizational compliance requirements within three major areas: corporate governance, operational compliance, and global migration/workforce compliance. It then shows how to manage compliance, with a look toward global future trends that will impact the compliance framework, helping businesses establish goals and improvement benchmarks going forward.
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5. |  Quality Function Deployment and Six Sigma: A QFD Handbook, Second Edition By: Joseph P. Ficalora; Louis Cohen Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 17-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 08-APR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Quality Function Deployment and Six Sigma: A QFD Handbook, Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.Make the Most of QFD and the Voice of the Customer in Six
Sigma Environments
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) techniques have helped thousands
of organizations deliver higher-quality, more user-focused product
designs. Now, Lou Cohen’s classic guide to QFD has been
thoroughly updated to fully align QFD with Design for Six Sigma
(DFSS) and other state-of-the-art Six Sigma methodologies.
Revised by world-class Six Sigma expert Joe Ficalora and his team
at Sigma Breakthrough Technologies, this new edition’s
up-to-date perspective on QFD...
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6. |  Automotive SPICE in Practice: Surviving Interpretation and Assessment By: Klaus Hoermann; Markus Mueller; Lars Dittmann; Joerg Zimmer Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 01-JUL-2008 Insert Date: 30-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Automotive SPICE in Practice: Surviving Interpretation and Assessment
Automotive SPICE is a framework for designing and assessing software development processes. If implemented effectively, it leads to better processes and better product quality. It also helps to improve the cooperation among complex supply chains and between globally distributed development and engineering centers.
Automotive SPICE has been derived from the ISO/IEC 15504 standard, also known as SPICE. It has been developed under the Automotive SPICE initiative by the consensus of several major car manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Ford, Fiat, Daimler, Porsche, Volkswagen, and Volvo. Today,...
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7. |  Software Testing Foundations: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam By: Andreas Spillner; Tilo Linz; Hans Schaefer Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Software Testing Foundations: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam
Within the last 18 months more than 40,000 people worldwide have taken the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundations Level exam, 10,000 alone in the last 4 months. So, where can all these people go to learn what they need to know in order to pass the exam? Now they can go to Software Testing Foundations 2nd Edition, from Rocky Nook's new Computing division.
Professional testing of software has become an increasingly important task requiring a profound knowledge of testing techniques. The ISTQB has developed a universally accepted, international,...
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8. |  CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Integration A Process Improvement Approach By: Ralf Kneuper Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 28-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CMMI: Capability Maturity Model Integration A Process Improvement Approach
CMMI is a well-known and standardized model for assessing and improving software and systems development processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI was developed at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The current version, 1.2, was published in 2006 and is being adopted worldwide.
This book provides hands-on experience and will help the reader to gain an understanding of CMMI. It is an introduction to the model and its fundamental ideas. Through numerous examples, it helps the reader to get...
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9. |  By: Rex Black Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 28-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 |
This book teaches test managers what they need to know to achieve advanced skills in test estimation, test planning, test monitoring, and test control. Readers will learn how to define the overall testing goals and strategies for the systems being tested.
This hands-on, exercise-rich book provides experience with planning, scheduling, and tracking these tasks. You'll be able to describe and organize the necessary activities as well as learn to select, acquire, and assign adequate resources for testing tasks. Learn how to form, organize, and lead testing teams Master the organizing of...
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10. |  Advanced Software Testing Vol. 1 By: Rex Black Publisher: Rocky Nook Publication Date: 15-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 03-FEB-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Software Testing Vol. 1
This book is written for the test analyst who wants to achieve advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution. With a hands-on, exercise-rich approach, this book teaches you how to define and carry out the tasks required to put a test strategy into action. Learn how to analyze the system, taking into account the user ™s quality expectations. Additionally, learn how to evaluate system requirements as part of formal and informal reviews, using an understanding of the business domain to determine requirement validity. You will be able to analyze, design, implement, and execute tests,...
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