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Agile Productivity Unleashed

Agile Productivity Unleashed

By: Jamie Lynn Cooke

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 16-SEP-2010

Insert Date: 14-JUN-2013

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In today's challenging economic climate, organizations faced with limited budgets and frozen staffing levels need proven, common-sense approaches to maximize their productivity. Agile approaches are business practices with a proven track record for helping organizations achieve greater efficiency, higher-quality outputs and increased customer satisfaction. They enable organizations to avoid the trappings of extensive up-front planning and up-front budget commitments by encouraging staff to regularly produce high-value business outputs; and by basing ongoing financial and resource...

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Agile: An Executive Guide - Real results from IT budgets

Agile: An Executive Guide - Real results from IT budgets

By: Jamie Lynn Cooke

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 12-MAY-2011

Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013

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A summary of the challenges facing today's IT project manager Discussions 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 issues that can derail a project. Other challenges are less obvious, often more subtle, but equally destructive. Facing up to the challenges This book offers a focused and concise summary of 50 challenges facing today's IT project manager. The authors draw on years of practical experience (rather than classroom theory) to...

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Agile Principles Unleashed: Proven approaches for achieving real productivity gains in any organisation

Agile Principles Unleashed: Proven approaches for achieving real productivity gains in any organisation

By: Jamie Lynn Cooke

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 27-JUL-2010

Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013

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Agile Principles Unleashed: Proven approaches for achieving real productivity gains in any organisation An essential tool for anyone whose job it is to deliver high-quality results on time and to budget! In today's challenging economic climate, organisations faced with limited budgets and frozen staffing levels need proven, common-sense approaches to maximise their productivity. Agile approaches are business practices with a proven track record for helping organisations achieve greater efficiency, higher-quality outputs and increased customer satisfaction. They enable...

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Pro Team Foundation Service

Pro Team Foundation Service

By: Mathias Olausson; Joachim Rossberg; Jakob Ehn; Mattias Sköld

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013

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Pro Team Foundation Service gives you a jump-start into Microsoft's cloud-based ALM platform, taking you through the different stages of software development. Every project needs to plan, develop, test and release software and with agile practices often at a higher pace than ever before. Microsoft's Team Foundation Service is a cloud-based platform that gives you tools for agile planning and work tracking. It has a code repository that can be used not only from Visual Studio but from Java platforms and Mac OS X. The testing tools allow testers to start testing at the same time as...

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Agile SAP: Introducing flexibility, transparency and speed to SAP implementations

Agile SAP: Introducing flexibility, transparency and speed to SAP implementations

By: Sean Robson

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 24-JAN-2013

Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013

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"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...

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Everything you want to know about Agile

Everything you want to know about Agile

By: Jamie Lynn Cooke

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 04-APR-2012

Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013

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Deliver exceptional results from your IT department using Agile approaches. This book will show you how. The bottom line: Everything you want to know about Agile comprehensively addresses the issues that IT departments face when they try to implement Agile approaches within the constraints of their traditional organizations, including existing project frameworks, budgeting structures, contracts and corporate reporting. It is an essential resource for IT departments that want to deliver successful Agile results, even in the most challenging environments. Making Agile...

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Breaking the Addiction to Process: An Introduction to Agile Project Management

Breaking the Addiction to Process: An Introduction to Agile Project Management

By: Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 05-APR-2011

Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013

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"A clear, practical guide to Agile development methods. Transform your working practices and save time and money! We live and work in an age in which clients' needs are changing rapidly. Deadlines are shortening and existing development methodologies are relatively inflexible. Projects undertaken using these systems are coming up against increasing difficulties. Modern processes need to be fast-moving and adaptable to cope with the pace of business today. Revolutionise your working practices with Agile Agile development methods offer greater flexibility than traditional methods....

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Executable Specifications with Scrum: A Practical Guide to Agile Requirements Discovery

Executable Specifications with Scrum: A Practical Guide to Agile Requirements Discovery

By: Mario Cardinal

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 07-AUG-2013

Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Effective specifications are essential to any significant software development project, and agile projects are no exception. Traditionally, “user stories” have been central to developing specifications in agile environments, but while these are indispensable, they have not proven sufficient. In  Executable Specifications with Scrum , Mario Cardinal offers simple best practices for creating specifications that are more accurate, can be used to automate software verification, and significantly improve the likelihood of project...

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Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools & Tips

Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools & Tips

By: Ilan Goldstein

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 19-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 29-APR-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Practical, Step-by-Step Scrum Techniques for Improving Processes, Actions, and Outcomes The widespread adoption and success of Scrum can be attributed in large part to its perceived intuitiveness and simplicity. But when new Scrum practitioners attempt to apply Scrum theory and high-level approaches in actual projects, they often find it surprisingly difficult. In Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Scrum expert Ilan Goldstein helps you translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum challenges your formal training never...

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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By: Stacia Viscardi;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 19-APR-2013

Insert Date: 24-APR-2013

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A collection of tips, tricks, and war stories to help the professional ScrumMaster break the chains of traditional organization and management Checklists, questions, and exercises to get you thinking (and acting) like a professional ScrumMaster Presented in a relaxed, jargon-free, personable style Full of ideas, tips, and anecdotes based on real-world experiences In Detail A natural and difficult tension exists between a project team (supply) and its customer (demand); a professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at...

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Testen in Scrum-Projekten

Testen in Scrum-Projekten

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Publisher: dpunkt

Publication Date: 01-FEB-2013

Insert Date: 18-APR-2013

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erstes Buch zu Testen in agilen Projekten im deutschsprachigen Raum durchgängiges Fallbeispiel und fünf weitere Fallstudien in Form von Interviews Checkfragen und Übungen am Ende eines jeden Kapitels* Autor ist in der Tester-Community sehr bekannt, u.a. Vorsitzender des German Testing Board ...

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Dit is agile

Dit is agile

By: Sander Hoogendoorn

Publisher: Pearson Benelux

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2013

Insert Date: 06-APR-2013

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Dit is agile is een fascinerende reis langs alle facetten van agile, zoals backlogs, stand-up meetings, retrospectives, specification by example, agile dashboards en test driven development. Sander Hoogendoorn deelt in dit boek zijn ruime kennis en ervaring met het coachen van en werken in agile teams. Dankzij de vele illustraties en praktijkvoorbeelden is Dit is agile niet alleen een duidelijke gids voor beginners, maar bevat het ook talloze tips en nieuwe inzichten voor de ervaren lezer. Het boek geeft antwoord op tal van vragen: • Waarom werkt waterval niet? • Wat is...

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Scrum kurz & gut

Scrum kurz & gut

By: Rolf Dräther; Holger Koschek; Carsten Sahling

Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag

Publication Date: 15-FEB-2013

Insert Date: 29-MAR-2013

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Scrum ist ein agiles Projektmanagement-Framework, das in der Softwareentwicklung bereits vielfach erfolgreich eingesetzt wird und sich als Methode für die Arbeitsorganisation in IT-Unternehmen immer mehr durchsetzt. Dieses Buch bietet sowohl IT-Projektmanagern als auch an Scrum-Prozessen beteiligten Softwareentwicklern einen kompakten, praxisbezogenen Überblick über das Framework. Scrum - kurz & gut beschreibt leicht verständlich nicht nur die Regeln, Strukturen und Rollen von Scrum, sondern erläutert auch die agilen Werte und Denkweisen, die dieser Arbeitsmethode zugrunde liegen. Ein Glossar...

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Agile User Experience Design

Agile User Experience Design

By: Diana Brown

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Publication Date: 10-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013

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Being able to fit design into the Agile software development processes is an important skill in today’s market. There are many ways for a UX team to succeed (and fail) at being Agile. This book provides you with the tools you need to determine what Agile UX means for you. It includes practical examples and case studies, as well as real-life factors to consider while navigating the Agile UX waters. You’ll learn about what contributes to your team’s success, and which factors to consider when determining the best path for getting there. After reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge to...

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The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond

The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 19-NOV-2012

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A fast and easy guide to Agile/Scrum principles for any organization The 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 approach organizes business priorities around short team sprints that yield incremental improvement. If you find yourself at the helm of a team, The Agile Pocket Guide will guide you in implementing Agile and Scrum principles through organizational change and by bringing personal ownership into the equation. Discover how to...

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TeamCity 7 Continuous Integration Essentials

TeamCity 7 Continuous Integration Essentials

By: Volodymyr Melymuka;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 26-DEC-2012

Insert Date: 01-JAN-2013

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"A step-by-step introductory tutorial and intelligible practical guide to successfully applying Continuous Integration via TeamCity book and ebook. Put Continuous Integration into operation with TeamCity, quickly and easily with this practical tutorial Set automatic build checks and notifications according to your needs and configure multi-step builds with dependent and interrelated projects easily Plug TeamCity either to existing on-going development or at the project’s very beginning Perform fine-tuning adjustments of the TeamCity Server In Detail Nowadays, Agile...

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Agile Development. Filozofia programowania zwinnego

Agile Development. Filozofia programowania zwinnego

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Publisher: Helion

Publication Date: 25-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 01-NOV-2012

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Ksi??ka dla programistów, którzy maj? do?wiadczenie w tworzeniu witryn internetowych i s? zainteresowani ulepszaniem istniej?cych ju? aplikacji....

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Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012

Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 24-OCT-2012

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Turn requirements into working software increments—faster and more efficiently—using Visual Studio 2012, Scrum and Agile engineering practices, and the role-based guidance in this practical reference....

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User-Centered Agile Methods

User-Centered Agile Methods

By: Hugh Beyer

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Publication Date: 07-JUL-2010

Insert Date: 25-SEP-2012

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With the introduction and popularization of Agile methods of software development, existing relationships and working agreements between user experience groups and developers are being disrupted. Agile methods introduce new concepts: the Product Owner, the Customer (but not the user), short iterations, User Stories. Where do UX professionals fit in this new world? Agile methods also bring a new mindset -- no big design, no specifications, minimal planning -- which conflict with the needs of UX design. This lecture discusses the key elements of Agile for the UX community and...

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Agile Projekte mit Scrum, XP und Kanban im Unternehmen durchführen

Agile Projekte mit Scrum, XP und Kanban im Unternehmen durchführen

By: Henning Wolf

Publisher: dpunkt

Publication Date: 15-OCT-2011

Insert Date: 20-SEP-2012

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erstes Buch mit Praxisberichten aus dem agilen Projektalltag geschrieben von führenden agilen Experten im deutschsprachigen Raum auch Projektberichte aus Kanban-Projekten! ...