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Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004: 4th Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Methods, Calgary, Canada, August

Springer, 2008

It was 1999 when Extreme Programming Explained was first published, making this year’s event arguably the fifth anniversary of the birth of the XP/Agile movement in software development. Our fourth conference reflected the evolution and the learning that have occurred in these exciting five years as agile practices have become...

The First-Time Manager

AMACOM, 2012

It is shortlisted for the Chartered Management Institute's Management Book of the Year award 2012. What's a rookie manager to do? Faced with new responsibilities, and in need of quick, dependable guidance, novice managers can't afford to learn by trial and error. The "First-Time Manager" is the answer, dispensing the...

Beyond the Bottom Line: Socially Innovative Business Owners

Praeger Publishers, 2000

Quarter examines business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After providing an introduction to this phenomenon in an historical perspective and discussing the 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides ll case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries-the UK, US, the Netherlands,...

Creative Project Management

McGraw-Hill, 2010

The seven essential tools for keeping projects on time and under budget

You're executing risk management, leadership, and planning--all hallmarks of outstanding project management. And yet you're still having trouble keeping your projects on schedule.

Creative Project Management adds two new elements to...

Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach

CRC Press, 2009

As technology pushes the Petascale barrier, and the next generation Exascale Computing requirements are being dened, it is clear that this type of computational capacity can be achieved only by accompanying advancement in communication technology. Next generation computing platforms will consist of hundreds of thousands of...

The SimCalc Vision and Contributions: Democratizing Access to Important Mathematics

Springer, 2012

While still teaching at SUNY at Buffalo, in the late 1960s, I became familiar with the new program, proposed and run by Jim Kaput, at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, called START. The purpose of the program was to help students to overcome, in their freshman year, deficiencies in Algebra and to help them to proceed...

Management Intelligent Systems: Second International Symposium (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing)

Springer, 2013

This symposium was born as a research forum to present and discuss original, rigorous and significant contributions on Artificial Intelligence-based (AI) solutions—with a strong, practical logic and, preferably, with empirical applications—developed to aid the management of organizations in multiple areas, activities, processes...

Statistical Techniques for Project Control (Industrial Innovation Series)

CRC Press, 2012

Winner of the IIE Book of the Month for June 2012

A project can be simple or complex. In each case, proven project management processes must be followed. In all cases of project management implementation, control must be exercised in order to assure that project objectives are achieved. Statistical...

Institutionalization of UX: A Step-by-Step Guide to a User Experience Practice (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2013

Computer hardware no longer provides a competitive edge. Software has become a broadly shared commodity. A new differentiator has emerged in information technology: user experience (UX). Executives recognize that the customer satisfaction that applications and websites provide directly impacts a company’s stock price.

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Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Fabricated tells the story of 3D printers, humble manufacturing machines that are bursting out of the factory and into homes, businesses, schools, kitchens, hospitals, even the fashion catwalk. The magic happens when you plug a 3D printer into today's mind-boggling digital technologies. Add to that the Internet, tiny, low cost...

Computing: A Concise History (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)

MIT Press, 2012

The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian...

Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Why customer retention is the new acquisition

If there's anything the recession of 2009 taught us, it was the importance of investing in our customers, but when was this any different? So says Joseph Jaffe, bestselling author of Life After the 30-Second Spot and Join the Conversation, and a leading expert and...

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