Senin, 02 September 2013

Wow! eBook: The Professional ScrumMaster’s Handbook - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: The Professional ScrumMaster’s Handbook - 5 new eBooks

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The Professional ScrumMaster’s Handbook

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:38 AM PDT

Book Description

A natural and difficult tension exists between a project team (supply) and its customer (demand); a professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at the best possible outcome.

“The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook” is a practical, no-nonsense guide to helping you become an inspiring and effective ScrumMaster known for getting results.

This book goes into great detail about why it seems like you're fighting traditional management culture every step of the way. You will explore the three roles of Scrum and how, working in harmony, they can deliver a product in the leanest way possible. You'll understand that even though there is no room for a project manager in Scrum, there are certain "management" aspects you should be familiar with to help you along the way. Getting a team to manage itself and take responsibility is no easy feat; this book will show you how to earn trust by displaying it and inspiring courage in a team every day.

“The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook” will challenge you to dig deep within yourself to improve your mindset, practices, and values in order to build and support the very best agile teams.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create and maintain an impediment backlog to support continuous improvement for you, your team, and your organization
  • How to tell the difference between an obstacle and a true constraint
  • Create a culture transition map to help your team and organization deliver quickly and flexibly
  • Work through exercises to help co-workers and management discover for themselves a new way of approaching tasks
  • Align your actions to the Scrum values every day
  • Facilitate "lean" meetings – light and quick, yet effective

Approach
Focusing on the ScrumMaster role and responsibilities, this book presents solutions and ideas for common problems, improving the overall methodology of a ScrumMaster’s approach.

Who this book is for
The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook is for anybody who wishes to be a true ScrumMaster as the role was originally intended – a fearless, professional, change facilitator. This book extends your working knowledge of Scrum to explore other avenues and ways of thinking to help teams and organizations reach their full potential.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849688028
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849688024
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JIRA 5.2 Essentials

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:33 AM PDT

Book Description

Atlassian's JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to aid speed of development and quality of code. This book will show you how to develop software more efficiently by planning, designing, and customizing your own JIRA implementation.

JIRA is a popular issue tracking product designed for better bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. JIRA 5.2 Essentials provides a comprehensive guide covering everything you will need to plan, set up, design, customize, and manage your software development projects efficiently and to a professional standard.

In this practical book you will learn how to design and implement JIRA for project and issue tracking. You will jump into the installation and design of JIRA before going through the required techniques to effectively manage issues that threaten your software development project.

Each chapter builds on the last, taking you through important concepts and techniques such as business processes and workflows, setting up e-mail notifications, field and screen management, and reporting. Using these techniques you will be able to make JIRA adapt to your organization and save time and energy by developing software more efficiently.

Newly improved and updated to JIRA 5.2 this book also includes a section about GreenHopper and Agile development with JIRA.

What you will learn from this book

  • Design and implement JIRA to work for you and your team
  • Master JIRA issue and project tracking methods
  • Make your data tell a story through powerful data query and information retrieval
  • Get to grips with GreenHopper, Bonfire, and Agile development with JIRA
  • Secure JIRA to protect your data
  • Capture and display data to users by using different types of fields in JIRA

Approach
JIRA 5.2 Essentials is packed with real-world examples and practical tutorials which will help you become a JIRA expert.

Who this book is for
If you want to get started with JIRA, then this book is made for you. Only basic computer skills and project or issue management knowledge is required. The book will provide the rest. This book would also be of interest to experienced JIRA users who wish to improve their workflow and master the new features of JIRA 5.2.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 396 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782179992
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782179993
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Book Description

Managing any relationship can be difficult. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 enables an organization to manage their marketing, sales, and service efforts for a customer, and give users a 360 degree view of the customer.

“Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide” will assist individuals in passing the certification exam by reviewing each topic covered by the exam in depth, providing questions to test your knowledge at the end of each chapter, and finally by providing a 75 question practice exam including answers.

You'll start with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 along with an overview of the exam, benefits of certification, and helpful exam taking tips.

The following chapters take a deeper look into the CRM application itself covering each of the key modules: marketing, sales, service, and service scheduling. At the end of the book, there is a 75 question sample certification exam.

This book will help you attain the MB2-868 certification, making you more marketable.

What you will learn from this book

  • Introduce yourself to the certification exam and helpful exam taking tips
  • Learn about marketing automation and its application to your organization
  • How to enable an efficient and accurate sales process
  • Service your customers and get metrics to make sure your customers are truly happy
  • Schedule and plan for resource allocation if needed while servicing your customers
  • Prepare for the MB2-868 certification exam with a mock 75 question exam

Approach
This Certification guide will follow a step-by-step approach to instruct the reader what they need to know to be able to become certified with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

Who this book is for
If you will implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, this book is for you. You should have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849686505
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849686501
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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:27 AM PDT

Book Description

Working with a varied set of upcoming technologies is a challenge. Visual Studio 2012 is all about enabling you to develop and manage these consumer-focused and business-focused apps. It provides best-in-class tools that propel developers to create new apps or evolve existing ones, and it enables individuals and teams to deliver continuous value and agility. In conjunction, .NET 4.5 provides expansive capabilities for developers to work on all forms of apps and services, from client to mobile to web to cloud, enabling them to get to the market fast. This book shows you exactly how to do this, and much more. It focuses on giving expertise on upcoming technologies through complete architectural insights of .NET infrastructure and hands on examples.

“Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook” is a step-by-step practical guide that teaches you how to work with new changes on technology under .NET. It provides in-depth analysis and expert advice on various elements of .NET, applying them in code using detailed practical examples. The book provides solutions to common development problems and helps you adapt to the latest technologies and get to grips with modern app development for the .NET 4.5 platform.

This cookbook gets you startedon Visual Studio 2012 IDE and its various tooling capabilities. It provides expert knowledge on .NET infrastructure, internals of assemblies, and a basic introduction of Intermediate language. Common C# concepts and ideas are demonstrated through an example-driven approach.

The recipes provide an overall view of ASP.NET Web applications and introduce the new performance boosters in .NET 4.5. It also gives a basic introduction to HTML 5 and JQuery library to enhance Web applications. It provides a complete introduction to Client applications using WPF and MVVM patterns and looks at some of the major enhancements on WPF 4.5. It shows you how to write applications for Windows 8 and provides expert advice on how to write applications in WinRT, either using XAML and C# or HTML/JavaScript.

“Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook” gives you better understanding of  overall .NET infrastructure using the latest technology updates, providing a broad guide for a basic developer to become an expert on .NET.

What you will learn from this book

  • Basic usage of Visual Studio 2012 IDE and its various components and better utilization of the tool while writing code
  • Understand memory management techniques to build better applications
  • Understand the .NET infrastructure with in-depth analysis of its internals
  • Architect solutions that leverage the full power of .NET language gems, understanding when to use what
  • Implement multithreaded / asynchronous applications using recent updates on .NET 4.5 and compare the past approaches
  • Create secure ASP.NET web based applications in .NET 4.5 with use of JQuery and HTML5 for rapid application development
  • Architect advanced .NET client applications using MVVM with WPF 4.5
  • Understand touch sensitive devices and leverage skills to develop multi-touch applications inside Windows 8

Approach
This book is written in a cookbook-style format and provides practical, immediately usable task-based recipes that provide solutions to common development problems and help you adapt to the latest .NET technologies.

Who this book is for
This book is aimed at Visual Studio 2012 and .Net developers who want to gain advanced understanding and sharpen their existing skillsets and adapt to new .NET technologies. Basic understanding of .NET and C# is assumed. The purpose of this book is to give under the hood expertise in .NET and help you to face common problems on latest technologies.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 380 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184968670X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849686709
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Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:24 AM PDT

Book Description

Windows Phone is an OS which is also a platform in itself and provides an opportunity for application developers to build their apps and sell them on the Windows Phone Marketplace. Windows Phone is slowly catching up in the race with iOS and Android. Although well suited for scientific and mathematical calculations, the Windows Phone Platform provides an opportunity to program in F#.

“Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#”  focuses on making the user aware of Windows Phone App Development with the F# programming language in as short a time as possible. The book teaches you about the development environment, helps you understand the project structure, understand the controls, and ends with some of the cool features of the platform like sensors, launchers, and choosers.

The book starts off with enabling the user with the right tools required to start developing. It focuses on getting the IDE ready, and project and item templates. By the end of the book the user will be familiarized with the different aspects of the platform itself. The transition from one chapter to another is short and focused so that you can get to the meat of the topic quickly.

What you will learn from this book

  • Windows Phone application development with function language F#
  • Work with Windows Phone controls
  • Understand screen orientations in Windows Phone
  • Discover page navigation in Windows Phone
  • Get to grips with gesture events in Windows Phone
  • Explore data access and storage in Windows Phone
  • Become familiar with handlers and choosers in Windows Phone
  • Learn more about sensors in Windows Phone

Approach
A short book with important concepts and instructions.

Who this book is for
This book is for those who want to find out more about Windows Phone and are familiar with functional programming languages, and in particular, F#. The book assumes that you know how to program using F# as a language. However, the book does take you through a brief introduction to Windows Phone as a platform and F# as a language.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 138 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849687846
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849687843
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