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Acquiring Enterprise Software: Beating the Vendors at Their Own Gameby Jacques Verville, Alannah HalingtenISBN 0130857319 (0-13-085731-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Agile Estimating And Planningby Not AvailableISBN 0131479415 (0-13-147941-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Agile Software Development With Scrumby Ken Schwaber, Mike BeedleISBN 0130676349 (0-13-067634-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agile Software Development With Scrum'Book summary:eXtreme Programming is an ideal many software shops would love to reach, but with the constant pressures to produce software quickly, they cannot actually implement it. The Agile software process allows a company to implement eXtreme Programming quickly and immediately-and to begin producing software incrementally in as little as 30 days! Implementing eXtreme Programming is easier said than done. The process can be time consuming and actually slow down current software projects that are in process. This book shows readers how to use SCRUM, an Agile software development process, to quickly and seamlessly implement XP in their shop-while still producing actual software. Using SCRUM and the Agile process can virtually eliminate all downtime during an XP implementation.
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The Art of the Novelby Milan Kundera, Linda AsherISBN 0060093749 (0-06-009374-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Novel'Book summary:"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is," Kundera writes. "I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on "perhaps the least known of all the great novelists of our time," Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel. His reflections on the state of the modem European novel are as witty, original, and far-reaching as his fiction. [via]
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Business Process Improvement: The Breakthrough Strategy for Total Quality, Productivity, and Competitivenessby H. James HarringtonISBN 0070267685 (0-07-026768-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Business Process Improvement: The Breakthrough Strategy for Total Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness'Book summary:It's one of the hot topics for the 1990s - how to apply quality improvement techniques originally developed for the manufacturing sector to service industries. "How to Take the Lead in Business Process Management" details how to do it, providing a step-by-step formula that helps companies improve quality and productivity in the support areas. Here, in one comprehensive volume is all the information an organization needs to start the improvement process right away: how to determine customer needs and expectations and deliver the best service; how to establish which processes drive your business; how to create process improvement teams and train team leaders; how to eliminate bureaucracy, simplify the process, and reduce processing time; how to measure progress and provide feedback to participants; how to document the levels of improvement and certify operations and activities; and how to ensure ongoing improvement. Two special features further enhance the value of this highly practical guide: a chapter of case histories, showing the results of business process improvement, and an exhaustive section that guides readers in the application of problem-solving methods, value analysis and process analysis techniques, perfection analysis, work simplification programs, and more. [via]
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Business Reengineering: The Survival Guideby Dorine C. Andrews, Susan K. StalickISBN 0130148539 (0-13-014853-9)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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Death Marchby Edward YourdonISBN 013143635X (0-13-143635-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Ptr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death March'Book summary:Death march projects are becoming increasingly common in the software industry. The symptoms are obvious: The project schedule, budget, and staff are about half of what is necessary for completion. The planned feature set is unrealistic. People are working 14 hours a day, six or seven days a week, and stress is taking its toll. The project has a high risk of failure, yet management is either blind to the situation or has no alternative. Why do these irrational projects happen, and what, other than pure idiocy, leads people to get involved in them?
Edward Yourdon has produced a wise and highly readable book on the entire death march phenomenon and the best way to steer through one. He takes a close look at the types of projects that often become death marches and the corporate politics and culture that typically produce them; Yourdon helps you examine your own motivations and those of corporate managers who enable death marches to take shape.
Much of Death March is about the human element of highly stressful projects. The author's plain-spoken observations on the dysfunctional organization--the Machiavellian politics, naive optimism, lust for power, fear, and sheer managerial stupidity that guide so many death marches--make for a refreshing change from other project management books. You'll also find much practical advice to help you survive, everything from negotiating with upper management to breathing life into faltering projects. He'll even help you determine if you should look for another job.
If you've ever worked in a death march situation or been a client of a company addicted to death march management, this book will help you understand what happened. More importantly, it will help you prepare for future encounters with death marches. Death March is highly recommended for anyone involved in software development. [via]
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Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projectsby Edward YourdonISBN 0130146595 (0-13-014659-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Ptr
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Edward Yourdon has produced a wise and highly readable book on the entire death march phenomenon and the best way to steer through one. He takes a close look at the types of projects that often become death marches and the corporate politics and culture that typically produce them; Yourdon helps you examine your own motivations and those of corporate managers who enable death marches to take shape.
Much of Death March is about the human element of highly stressful projects. The author's plain-spoken observations on the dysfunctional organization--the Machiavellian politics, naive optimism, lust for power, fear, and sheer managerial stupidity that guide so many death marches--make for a refreshing change from other project management books. You'll also find much practical advice to help you survive, everything from negotiating with upper management to breathing life into faltering projects. He'll even help you determine if you should look for another job.
If you've ever worked in a death march situation or been a client of a company addicted to death march management, this book will help you understand what happened. More importantly, it will help you prepare for future encounters with death marches. Death March is highly recommended for anyone involved in software development. [via]
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Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defenseby Suzette H. ElginISBN 0133510808 (0-13-351080-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Journey of the Software Professional: A Sociology of Software Developmentby Luke HohmannISBN 0132366134 (0-13-236613-4)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Ptr
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Literature and the Writing Processby Susan Day, Elizabeth McMahan, Robert FunkISBN 002379741X (0-02-379741-X)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Modes of Thoughtby Alfred North WhiteheadISBN 002935210X (0-02-935210-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Object-Oriented Development Process : Developing and Managing a Robust Process for Object-Oriented Developmentby Tom W. RowlettISBN 0130306215 (0-13-030621-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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Printmaking: History and Processby Donald SaffISBN 0030856639 (0-03-085663-9)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniquesby Frank Leymann, Dieter RollerISBN 0130217530 (0-13-021753-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques'Book summary:2175C-9 Implemented properly, workflow products enable companies to reengineer and streamline business processes. In Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques, two of IBM's leading workflow experts demonstrate structures of production workflow systems and solutions that deliver maximum availability, reliability, and scalability. This start-to-finish, vendor-independent guide brings together best practices from these areas. Coverage includes: *Fundamentals: types of workflows, and relationship with other technologies. *Key elements of a workflow metamodel including its mathematical formalization. *Architecture of production workflow systems. *Relating workflows with transactions and objects. *The role of standards: Workflow Management Coalition and OMG. *Advanced workflow functions and application topologies. *Process-based CASE techniques for development, testing, and maintenance. The authors walk step-by-step through modeling workflows and building workflow-based applications. You'll also learn about the properties of these applications and how appropriate architectures of workflow systems ensure these properties.Whatever your role in workflow and/or reengineering projects, Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques delivers the specific information you need to achieve results. [via]
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Radical Project Managementby Rob ThomsettISBN 0130094862 (0-13-009486-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Qualityby Steven C. Wheelwright, Kim B. ClarkISBN 0029055156 (0-02-905515-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Robert's Rules of Orderby Henry M. RobertISBN 006275002X (0-06-275002-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Robert's Rules of Orderby William Evans, Henry M. Robert, Henry Robert, Sarah Corbin RobertISBN 0062760513 (0-06-276051-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert's Rules of Order'Book summary:Since Robert's Rules of Order first was published in 1896, it's been the means to orderly, smooth, and fairly conducted meetings. This ninth edition of the famous manual of parliamentary procedure includes everything from the first edition, but all of the information is clarified, cross-referenced, and carefully indexed. "Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty," said General Henry M. Robert, and his gift of order is as indispensable now as it was a century ago. [via]
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Software Configuration Management: Identification, Accounting, Control, and Managementby Steve J. Ayer, Frank S. PatrinostroISBN 0070026033 (0-07-002603-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Software Inspection Processby Susan H. Strauss, Robert G. EbenauISBN 0070621667 (0-07-062166-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Software Project Survival Guideby Steve McConnell, Microsoft PressISBN 0072850612 (0-07-285061-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Toward the Futureby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 0002154684 (0-00-215468-4)
Hardcover, Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Toward the Future'Book summary:These essays derive from Teilhard's concern to reveal the true meaning of our age and to stimulate the "sense of man and sense of the Christian." The controversial essay "The Evolution of Chastity" was published here in its entirety for the first time. Foreword by N. M. Wildiers; Index. Translated by René Hague. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Toward the Future:
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Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturerby Jeffrey LikerISBN 0071392319 (0-07-139231-9)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Toyota Way Fieldbook: A Practical Guide For Implementing Toyota's 4Psby Jeffrey Liker, David MeierISBN 0071448934 (0-07-144893-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toyota Way Fieldbook: A Practical Guide For Implementing Toyota's 4Ps'Book summary:The Toyota Way Fieldbook is a companion to the international bestseller The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota's operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota's success-proven practices to life in any organization. The Toyota Way Fieldbook will help other companies learn from Toyota and develop systems that fit their unique cultures.
The book begins with a review of the principles of the Toyota Way through the 4Ps model-Philosophy, Processes, People and Partners, and Problem Solving. Readers looking to learn from Toyota's lean systems will be provided with the inside knowledge they need to
- Define the companies purpose and develop a long-term philosophy
- Create value streams with connected flow, standardized work, and level production
- Build a culture to stop and fix problems
- Develop leaders who promote and support the system
- Find and develop exceptional people and partners
- Learn the meaning of true root cause problem solving
- Lead the change process and transform the total enterprise
The depth of detail provided draws on the authors combined experience of coaching and supporting companies in lean transformation. Toyota experts at the Georgetown, Kentucky plant, formally trained David Meier in TPS. Combined with Jeff Liker's extensive study of Toyota and his insightful knowledge the authors have developed unique models and ideas to explain the true philosophies and principles of the Toyota Production System.
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Working Effectively With Legacy Codeby Michael FeathersISBN 0131177052 (0-13-117705-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Working Effectively With Legacy Code'Book summary:Get more out of your legacy systems: more performance, functionality, reliability, and manageability
Is your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts.
In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large, untested legacy code bases. This book draws on material Michael created for his renowned Object Mentor seminars: techniques Michael has used in mentoring to help hundreds of developers, technical managers, and testers bring their legacy systems under control.
The topics covered include
- Understanding the mechanics of software change: adding features, fixing bugs, improving design, optimizing performance
- Getting legacy code into a test harness
- Writing tests that protect you against introducing new problems
- Techniques that can be used with any language or platform?with examples in Java, C++, C, and C#
- Accurately identifying where code changes need to be made
- Coping with legacy systems that aren't object-oriented
- Handling applications that don't seem to have any structure
This book also includes a catalog of twenty-four dependency-breaking techniques that help you work with program elements in isolation and make safer changes.
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