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YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK! Software Exorcism: A Handbook for
Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching, no
bulls$&# look at behavioral problems in the software
engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social
forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Do
you have a co-worker who perpetually writes bad code that you are
forced to clean up? This is your book. While there are plenty of
books on the market that cover debugging and short-term workarounds
for bad code, Reverend Bill Blunden takes a revolutionary step
beyond them by bringing our attention to the underlying illnesses
that plague the software industry as a whole. Further, Software
Exorcism discusses tools and techniques for effective and
aggressive debugging, gives optimization strategies that appeal to
all levels of programmers, and presents in-depth treatments of
technical issues with honest assessments that are not biased toward
proprietary solutions.
Get up to speed on Microsoft Project 2013 and learn how to
manage projects large and small. This crystal-clear book not only
guides you step-by-step through Project 2013's new features, it
also gives you real-world guidance: how to prep a project before
touching your PC, and which Project tools will keep you on target.
With this Missing Manual, you'll go from project manager to Project
master.
The important stuff you need to knowLearn Project 2013 inside
out. Get hands-on instructions for the Standard and Professional
editions.Start with a project management primer. Discover what it
takes to handle a project successfully.Build and refine your plan.
Put together your team, schedule, and budget.Achieve the results
you want. Build realistic schedules with Project, and learn how to
keep costs under control.Track your progress. Measure your
performance, make course corrections, and manage changes.Create
attractive reports. Communicate clearly to stakeholders and team
members using charts, tables, and dashboards.Use Project's power
tools. Customize Project's features and views, and transfer info
via the cloud, using Microsoft SkyDrive.
Use Kanban to maximize efficiency, predictability, quality, and
value With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can
add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal:
Agile Project Management with Kanban. Author Eric Brechner
pioneered Kanban within the Xbox engineering team at Microsoft. Now
he shows you exactly how to make it work for your team. Think of
this book as "Kanban in a box": open it, read the quickstart guide,
and you're up and running fast. As you gain experience, Brechner
reveals powerful techniques for right-sizing teams, estimating,
meeting deadlines, deploying components and services, adapting or
evolving from Scrum or traditional Waterfall, and more. For every
step of your journey, you'll find pragmatic advice, useful
checklists, and actionable lessons. This truly is "Kanban in a
box": all you need to deliver breakthrough value and quality. Use
Kanban techniques to: Start delivering continuous value with your
current team and project Master five quick steps for completing
work backlogs Plan and staff new projects more effectively Minimize
work in progress and quickly adjust to change Eliminate artificial
meetings and prolonged stabilization Improve and enhance customer
engagement Visualize workflow and fix revealed bottlenecks Drive
quality upstream Integrate Kanban into large projects Optimize
sustained engineering (contributed by James Waletzky) Expand Kanban
beyond software development
Develop an understanding of the core principles of information
systems (IS) and how these principles make a difference in today's
business environment with Stair/Reynolds' PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION
SYSTEMS, 14E. Completely reorganized for clarity and focus, this
fresh new edition provides engaging new chapter opening cases and a
new chapter on AI and automation. You explore the challenges and
risks of cybercrime, hacking, internet of things, and artificial
intelligence as you examine the latest IS research and learn from
memorable examples. You can even maximize your employability as you
learn how to use IS to increase profits and reduce costs in
organizations. You study the latest in big data, business
intelligence, cloud computing, e-commerce, enterprise systems,
mobile computing, strategic planning, and systems development.
Powerful tools, such as new ConceptClip videos and You Make the
Decision interactive cases in this edition's MindTap digital
resources help you further your success.
Repetitive Project Scheduling: Theory and Methods is the first book
to comprehensively, and systematically, review new methods for
scheduling repetitive projects that have been developed in response
to the weaknesses of the most popular method for project
scheduling, the Critical Path Method (CPM). As projects with
significant levels of repetitive scheduling are common in
construction and engineering, especially construction of buildings
with multiple stories, highways, tunnels, pipelines, power
distribution networks, and so on, the book fills a much needed gap,
introducing the main repetitive project scheduling methods, both
comprehensively and systematically. Users will find valuable
information on core methodologies, including how to identify the
controlling path and controlling segment, how to convert RSM to a
network model, and examples based on practical scheduling problems.
Microsoft Project is brimming with features to help you manage
any project, large or small. But learning the software is only half
the battle. What you really need is real-world guidance: how to
prep your project before touching your PC, which Project tools work
best, and which ones to use with care. This book explains it all,
helping you go from project manager to project master.Get a project
management primer. Discover what it takes to handle a project
successfully Learn the program inside out. Get step-by-step
instructions for Project Standard and Project Professional Build
and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget
Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules, and learn
how to keep costs under control Track your progress. Measure your
performance, make course corrections, and manage changes Use
Project's power tools. Customize Project's features and views, and
transfer info directly between Project and other programs
Primarily a Microsoft Project book, it has been written for people
learning to use Microsoft Project in a project environment applying
the PMBOK (R) Guide Sixth Edition processes. It aims to teach
readers how to plan and control projects created within the
software package and stays focused on explaining how to use
Microsoft Project to schedule projects by: 1. Explaining which
PMBOK (R) Guide processes the software will support and which it
will not support. 2. Concentrating on the core functions required
to plan a project. 3. Presents workable solutions to real day to
day planning and scheduling problems and contains practical advice
on how to set up the software. 4. Explains some of the important
differences between Microsoft Project and other scheduling
software. 5. Explains some of the more difficult calculations often
omitted in other books. 6. Includes exercises to reinforce the
learning outcomes, a large number of screen dumps, numerous tips, a
detailed index and command list at the start of each chapter as a
quick reference. 7. It has a new chapter introducing Microsoft
Project Server.
A guide to Microsoft Project that focuses on developing a
successful project management strategy across the organization to
drive better decisions
"Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project"
goes far beyond the basics of managing projects with Microsoft
Project and how to set up and use the software. This unique guide
is an indispensable resource for anyone who operates within a
Project Management Operation (PMO) or is affected by the adoption
of project management within an organization. Its focus is to
provide practical and transitional information for those who are
charged with making decisions and supporting corporate and
strategic objectives, and who face cost and resource
constraints.
Because more and more companies are aligning project management
with their business strategies, the book not only provides guidance
on using Microsoft Project and teaching project management skills,
but also includes important information on measuring results and
communicating with the executive branch. It also provides valuable
guidance in using SharePoint Server for social networking and
working within a team.
Clearly written and presented, the book: Covers work management
using Microsoft Project at multiple levels within an
organizationFocuses on using Microsoft Project 2010 to integrate
and support overall organizational strategiesIncludes hundreds of
graphics, screen shots, and annotations that make it the most
accessible and usable guide available on the subject
"Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Projec"t is
a valuable reference for project managers at all levels, and it
sets a new standard for training manuals used by businesses that
teach courses on project management using Microsoft Project.
This Microsoft Project 2013 book is the only Microsoft Official
Academic Course (MOAC) textbook. This series includes a complete
classroom instructional program. This Project 2013 text is designed
to re-enforce workforce skills. With this book students learn to
manage project resources, task assignments and scheduling. They
will also learn about the integration and tracking of multiple
projects and programs. Skills mastery of Project 2013 can help
students with classwork and differentiate job hunters in todays
competitive job market.
"Our job as Scrum professionals is to continually improve our
ability to use Scrum to deliver products and services that help
customers achieve valuable outcomes. This book will help you to
improve your ability to apply Scrum." -From the Foreword by Ken
Schwaber, co-author of Scrum Mastering Professional Scrum is for
anyone who wants to deliver increased value by using Scrum more
effectively. Leading Scrum practitioners Stephanie Ockerman and
Simon Reindl draw on years of Scrum training and coaching to help
you return to first principles and apply Scrum with the
professionalism required to achieve its transformative potential.
The authors aim to help you focus on proven Scrum approaches for
improving quality, getting and using fast feedback, and becoming
more adaptable, instead of "going through the motions" and settling
for only modest improvements. Whether you're a Scrum Master,
Development Team member, or Product Owner, you'll find practical
advice for facing challenges with transparency and courage,
overcoming a wide array of common challenges, and continually
improving your Scrum practice. Realistically assess your current
Scrum practice, and identify areas for improvement Recognize what a
great Scrum Team looks like and get there Focus on "Done"-not
"sort-of-Done" or "almost-Done" Measure and optimize the value
delivered by every Product Increment Improve the way you plan,
develop, and grow Clear away wider organizational impediments to
agility and professionalism Overcome common misconceptions that
stand in the way of progress Register your book for convenient
access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become
available. See inside book for details.
This title will guide you through Microsoft's latest version of
Project so you can master its new features.
Microsoft SharePoint is perfect for project management, but most
companies don't understand it's power. This hands-on book
demonstrates how SharePoint can help you organize and manage
complex projects--a decidedly more productive way to use this
popular collaboration software. You'll learn how to apply common
and practical project management concepts in SharePoint, and build
a Project Management Information System (PMIS) that can efficiently
coordinate communication and collaboration among team members.
This book is designed as a student handout for a two-day training
course and may also be used as a self-teach book. This course
objectives are to teach participants: * The user interface, * How
to create a projects, * Scheduling projects without resources, *
Filters, Views, Sorts and Printing, * Creating and assigning a
baseline and * Updating an un-resourced project. Most chapters are
reinforced by student workshops.
No matter what business you're in, at the end of the day, it's all
about people. Workers are people, and so are managers. Every day,
millions of people wake up, get dressed, and go to work. The fact
that all of them do different jobs and have different levels of
authority has been used for ages to divide us. The truth of the
matter, however, is that we're all just trying to make a living and
provide for the ones we love-and that's a powerful common bond. If
you can grasp that one concept, you'll have the power to change
your world for the better in ways that you never dreamed possible.
When you reach people at this fundamental level-letting them know
that you care about what's important to them and showing what's in
it for them personally when they join forces with you-nothing is
beyond your grasp. Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career
and Business Success presents the "Ten Pillars of the Empire" for
just this purpose. You don't have to become a great charismatic
leader to make them work. Each pillar speaks to you as an
individual employee and shows you how to improve both your career
and the company's bottom line in a practical and organized manner.
These principles and tactics are designed for the real world, where
things inevitably do not always go right. The pillars are at once
practical, sensible, and applicable in the hectic realities of the
workplace because they focus on people, which you'll come to see as
the most unstoppable force in a company's dynamic. The workforce
doesn't have to settle for less any longer. Working together, we
have the power to build a better tomorrow. Unite, and be
invincible!
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