How much of your time do you spend in meetings? How effectively is that time spent? A well facilitated meeting can massively improve how productive meetings are. This book includes tips and techniques to help you improve your facilitation.
This isn't a "Best Practices of Leadership!" or "Learn Leadership with this one Weird Trick!" kind of book. This book's centered on practical ideas that can help you begin, or improve, your journey as a leader.
Getting things done is hard. Getting things done without completely destroying our work-life balance is really hard. The idea has traditionally been that if we focus on the tasks and work we will inevitably achieve our goals and everyone will be happy. Most of us can remember working some really long weeks and hitting the “goal” but not feeling very happy. Note: This book's source is available and open for contributions! Please consider contributing and getting your amazing ideas out into the wild!
Tom Adams said, in IEEE Software: "The former star programmer who now struggles with the challenges of management will find, in Weinberg, a mentor with decades of experience helping programmers, team leaders, and managers grow in the psychological and social dimensions of their professions. This book will probably make you think twice about some decisions you currently make by reflex. That alone makes it worth reading."
Long regarded as one of the first books to pioneer a people-oriented approach to computing, The Psychology of Computer Programming endures as a penetrating analysis of the intelligence, skill, teamwork, and problem-solving power of the computer programmer.
We will uncovering better ways of using the manifesto as an inspiration
Извлекаем пользу из Agile-ретроспектив предлагает множество упражнений для пополнения вашего инструментария. Эта подборка активностей и упражнений поможет вам стать более продуктивными в проведении ретроспектив и в получении намного более ярких результатов от них.
This is a book of interviews of people using clean language in their work and personal lives. It chronicles how they came across clean language and how its use has changed their lives. By reading it you will get a sense of the breadth of its impact, from equine therapists, to ISO 9000 auditors.
This is the classic volume on every variety of technical review of programs, designs, tests, documentation, plans, requirements, ...
Capacity planning for new products is the key to getting new products launched. Covers how complex software and knowledge work can be managed effectively. If overapplied, the velocity model starts to break down in usefulness. So also discusses alternatives to help teams achieve high levels of productivity.
Ein Nachschlagewerk, das Moderatoren und agile Quereinsteiger in die Lage versetzt, interaktive und erfolgreiche Community-Events mit Formaten wie Open Space, Lean Coffee und World Café zu moderieren.
This book explains the journey of a company becoming Agile end to end using framework-agnostic approach. The concepts such as leading organisational change, discovering product needs and delivering high quality products end to end using short stories and sample artefacts.
If you read the tech press, everyone knows they need an API but most aren't really sure what it is. They treat it as another checkbox like "Web 2.0" was a few years ago or a mobile app was most recently. In fact, there's an entire "API-first" movement in development circles that most people don't understand or even realize why..
Do you want to be a (better) manager? Whether your answer is “yes,” or “no,” or “I don’t know,” this book is for you. If you don’t know, the book should help you decide—or help you do the right things while you postpone your decision. If your answer is “yes,” many of the book’s essays are designed to guide you successfully in that direction. And if your answer is “no,” many of the essays will show you how to avoid waking up one day to discover that somehow you have become a (worse) manager.
Need help getting your Team started? Want to do "just enough" upfront work before starting the first Sprint? Confused how to gather, share and create knowledge? Let me share some ideas that work.