A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you've been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively. Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use, this book will introduce, clarify, and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team, product, and portfolio levels. Drawing from Rubin's experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum's roles, artifacts, and activities. Essential Scrum will provide every team member, manager, and executive with a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it.
A controversial scientific vision by the author of The Age of Spiritual Machines predicts a time in which humans and machines will merge and create a new form of non-biological intelligence, explaining how the occurrence will solve such issues as pollution, hunger, and aging.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 144, Publishers: Bloomsbury Publishing, Author: Christopher Schaberg,Ian Bogost, ISBN-13: 9781501375804, Date of issue: 2021
Apps have changed the way we communicate, shop, play, interact and travel and their phenomenal popularity has presented possibly the biggest business opportunity in history. In How to Build a Billion Dollar App, serial tech entrepreneur George Berkowski - one of the minds behind the internationally successful taxi hailing app Hailo - gives you exclusive access to the secrets behind the success of the select group of apps that have achieved billion-dollar success. Berkowski draws exclusively on the inside stories of the billion-dollar app club members, including Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Candy Crush, Square, Viber, Clash of Clans, Angry Birds, Uber and Flipboard to provide all the information you need to create your own spectacularly successful mobile business. He guides you through each step, from an idea scribbled on the back of an envelope, through to finding a cofounder, building a team, attracting (and keeping) millions of users, all the way through to juggling the pressures of being CEO of a billion-dollar company (and still staying ahead of the competition).If you've ever dreamed of quitting your nine to five job to launch your own company or you're a gifted developer, seasoned entrepreneur or just intrigued by mobile technology, How to Build a Billion Dollar App will show you what it really takes to create your own billion-dollar, mobile business.
This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters.
Join in the fun with the gorillas, giraffes, elephants, and other animals, as they do things like wave their arms and touch their heads while the reader imitates them.
Readers can complete their own monster truck, army truck, fire engine and many more by adding sticker wheels, headlights and mirrors. Using the sticker pages, this title lets them complete their own monster truck, army truck, fire engine, logging truck and more.
In "Integrity", Dr. Cloud explores the six qualities of character that define integrity. He uses stories from well-known business leaders like Michael Dell and sports figures like Tiger Woods to illustrate each of these qualities. He shows us how people with integrity: are able to connect with others and build trust; are oriented toward reality; finish well; embrace the negative; are oriented toward increase; have an understanding of the transcendent; and, success is not related to only talent or brains. There are a lot of bright, talented people who are never successful. And the most successful are not only the ones with the most talent. The real factor, Cloud demonstrates, is the makeup of the person. All of us can grow in the kinds of real character that bring about fruitful relationships and achievement of purpose, mission, and goals. Integrity is not something that you either have or don't, but instead is an exciting growth path that all of us can engage in and enjoy.
Helens powers are increasing - and so is the distance between her and her mortal friends. To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a dangerous traitor is lurking among them, and all fingers point to Orion. Still unsure whether she loves him or Lucas, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, or risk all-out war. She must rise, or they will all fall
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 352, Publishers: Pearson Education, Author: Kate Gregory, ISBN-13: 9780137647842, Date of issue: 2021
Since 2008, busy managers by the tens of thousands have turned to this best-selling book as a handy guide to the ins and outs of human resources. And no wonder Because whether you're a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR departm
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 464, Publishers: Pearson Education, Author: Greg Horine, ISBN-13: 9780137646951, Date of issue: 2022
Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera. This updated edition include
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 304, Publishers: Pearson Education, Author: Orin Thomas, ISBN-13: 9780137729265, Date of issue: 2022
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 360, Publishers: Pearson Education, Author: Scott Kelby, ISBN-13: 9780137357635, Date of issue: 2023
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 196, Publishers: Image Comics, Author: Ryan Ottley,Cliff Rathburn,Fco Plascencia, ISBN-13: 9781534332898, Date of issue: 2026
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 240, Publishers: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, Author: Eric Freeze,Salvatore Pane, ISBN-13: 9781350301375, Date of issue: 2024
Revised and updated with improvements conceived in parallel programming courses, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is an authoritative guide to multicore programming. It introduces a higher level set of software development skills than that needed for efficient single-core programming. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new principles, algorithms, and tools necessary for effective multiprocessor programming. Students and professionals alike will benefit from thorough coverage of key multiprocessor programming issues.§This 2nd edition features new exercises developed by instructors using the text, with more algorithms, new examples and other updates throughout the book §Learn the fundamentals of programming multiple threads accessing shared memory §Explore mainstream concurrent data structures and the key elements of their design, as well as synchronization techniques from simple locks to transactional memory systems §Visit the companion site and download source code, example Java programs, and materials to support and enhance the learning experience
The Philokalia is the most influential book in the recent history of the Orthodox Church, aside from the Bible. It is an anthology of thirty-six spiritual texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by the masters of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, tracing a continuous tradition of the prayer of the heart, or hesychasm, in which the Jesus Prayer plays a growing role, from Evagrios of Pontos to Gregory Palamas. First published in Greek in 1782, and revered for offering a rich tapestry of wisdom on the path to union with God, the texts, largely of monastic origin, serve as a guide to lay people as well as monks in their pursuit of contemplative prayer, 'inner asceticism’, and the purification of the soul.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 536, Publishers: Bloomsbury Publishing, Author: Rasband,Judith (Conselle Institute of Image Management,USA),Liechty,Elizabeth (Brigham Young University,USA),Pottberg-Steineckert,Della (Brigham Young University,USA), ISBN-13: 9781501377297, Date of issue: 2024
Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an 'accident' in a deserted mansion. In "The Willow Pattern", the illustrious judge uses his trademark expertise to unravel the mysteries of the nobleman, a shattered vase, and a dead bondmaid. Along the way he encounters a woman who fights with loaded sleeves, a nearly drowned courtesan, and an elaborate trap set for a murderer. Packed with suspense, violence, and romance, "The Willow Pattern" won't disappoint Judge Dee's legions of loyal fans.
