Books

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Agile teams need to be able to handle impediments. This book explores how teams can deal effectively with the problems that will happen in their daily work, using agile thinking and practices. Foreword by Johanna Rothmann.

Agile & DevOps are big topics and there are so many buzz words flying around. This book is aimed to be read in under an hour, remove the jargon and explain, in an easy to read way, how you can start with agile and devops.

This book draws a complete picture of the data analysis process, filling out many details that are missing from previous presentations. It presents a new perspective on what makes for a successful data analysis and how the quality of data analyses can be judged.

This book helps you get comfortable with Terraform by going step-by-step from the simplest of Terraform modules to more complex cloud resource creation. It uses the 'Hard Way' method, the best way to develop your skills, and takes you from confusion to understanding in easy-to-follow steps.

A pragmatic guideline for remote works all over the world

What happened to that fun-loving child? How you wish for the days when going to the park with a picnic lunch was a great day!! Now you find yourself living with a young person that you don't even recognize and the worst part every attempt you make seems to make things worse.

In this astonishing book, author Lee Baker uncovers how politicians, the press, corporations and other statistical conmen use graphs and charts to deceive their unwitting audience.Written as a layman’s guide to lying, cheating and deceiving with graphs, there’s not a dull page in sight!Discover the exciting world of graphical lies.

Many of my colleagues complain that all the wrong companies and recruiters approach them about jobs. It turned out that their LinkedIn profiles were flat, barren, and did not highlight their skills. LinkedIn is the resume of the 21st century. A few minutes or improving your LinkedIn presence can lead to the job you want, at the salary you deserve.

In this eye-opening book, author Lee Baker uncovers the key tricks used by statistical hustlers to deceive, hoodwink and dupe the unwary.Written as a layman’s guide to lying, cheating and deceiving with data and statistics, there’s not a dull page in sight!Discover the exciting world of statistical cheating and persuasive misdirection.

Essays, fiction process, poetry, and pontification from novelist, Erik van Mechelen.

"[Eckstein] has covered the gamut of the common and uncommon challenges that teams encounter. This should be required reading for anyone involved in distributed agile development." ~Ken Pugh, author of Prefactoring. Note: This book has first been published in 2010.