Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Software Development & Engineering - Project Management

Agile teams have been struggling with the concept of continuous improvement since the first Agile frameworks were developed, and still very little has been written about the practice of continuous improvement in Agile environments. Although team retrospectives have been prescribed and some practices have been introduced in order to implement and facilitate them, the truth is that most Agile teams are conducting dull retrospectives that end with a list of things that have been done wrong, just to repeat the same list two weeks later at the next meeting.

Instead of listing hundreds of...

Data-governance programs focus on authority and accountability for the management of data as a valued organizational asset. Data Governance should not be about command-and-control, yet at times could become invasive or threatening to the work, people and culture of an organization. Non-Invasive Data Governance(TM) focuses on formalizing existing accountability for the management of data and improving formal communications, protection, and quality efforts through effective stewarding of data resources.

Non-Invasive Data Governance will provide you with a complete set of tools...

Everything you know about the future is wrong. Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation is for people "inventing" the future: future products, services, companies, strategies and policies. It introduces a design-research method that shortens time to insights from months to days. Presumptive Design is a fundamentally agile approach to identifying your audiences' key needs. Offering rapidly crafted artifacts, your teams collaborate with your customers to identify preferred and profitable elements of your desired outcome. Presumptive Design focuses on your users' problem...

If you want to convince your organization to conduct a web performance upgrade, this concise book will strengthen your case. Drawing upon her many years of web performance research, author Tammy Everts uses cases studies and other data to explain how web page speed and availability affect a host of business metrics. You'll also learn how our human neurological need for quick, uncomplicated processes drives these metrics.

Ideal for managers, this book's case studies demonstrate how Walmart, Staples.com, Mozilla, and other organizations significantly improved conversion rates through...

This is the first book to present comprehensive strategies and techniques that enable organizations to take charge of their ERP projects to drive success. The author describes how to become less dependent on outside consultants, significantly reduce implementation and support costs, mitigate project risks, and design business solutions that work for your company.

This book also contains hundreds of tips to create internal project ownership, select ERP software, manage service providers, transfer software knowledge, develop the right implementation strategies, establish a realistic...

This book is a practical guide for new agile practitioners and contains everything a new project manager needs to know to get up to speed with agile practices quickly and sort out the hype and dogma of pseudo-agile practices.The author lays out the general guidelines for running an agile project with the assumption that the project team may be working in a traditional environment (using the waterfall model, or something similar).

Agile Development in the Real World conveys valuable insights to multiple audiences:

• For new-to-agile project managers, this book...

This book tells you everything you need to know to help your organization implement DevOps on the Microsoft platform. You will learn how to use Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure to implement a complete DevOps process in your company. You will learn about Agile Project Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Technical Debt Management, Automatic Testing and Monitoring, and see how all these areas fit together.

DevOps is important for organizations that want to make the best use of their resources and avoid costly mistakes. Teams that embrace...

Dieses Buch bietet einen leicht verstandlichen Einstieg in die Modellierung und Analyse von Geschaftsprozessen. Aufbauend auf Grundlagen zur Modellbildung und Modellerstellung werden gangige Modellierungssprachen wie Ereignisgesteuerte Prozesskette (EPK), Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0), Unified Modeling Language - Aktivitatsdiagramm (UML-AD) und Petri-Netze erklart. Die Anwendung der Modellierungssprachen kann anhand einer umfangreichen Sammlung von Aufgaben und Losungen vertieft werden. Insbesondere unterstutzen verschiedene Aufgabentypen (z. B. Modellierung, textuelle...

Umfassendes Lehrbuch, das alle gangigen Curriculum-Inhalte zum Thema Geschaftsprozessmanagement an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen abdeckt. Es stellt dar, wie das richtige Management von Geschafts- und Prozessmodellen, deren Modellierung, Analyse und Restrukturierung zu Kostenoptimierung, Sicherheit und Risikominimierung im Unternehmen fuhrt. Mit Fallbeispielen, Ubungen und Losungen.

Aus dem Inhalt:

• Einfuhrung in Modellierungssprachen (BPMN, EPK, Petri-Netze, UML, CMN)
• Beschreibung der formatlen Sematnik fur die Modellierungssprachen
• Analyse der...