Learn IT - Books tags leadership

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management (2nd Edition)

Que, 2009

Why learn project management the hard way?

Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Project Management, Second Edition will have you managing projects in no time! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:

Key...

A Tale of Two Systems: Lean and Agile Software Development for Business Leaders

Productivity Press, 2009

This business parable reviews two different systems development projects. One project was an abject, expensive failure, while the other succeeded in creating a major new revenue stream, bringing in new customers. By reviewing the tales of these two systems, readers will develop a better understanding of what works and what doesn't when it comes...

Accelerated Silverlight 3 (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Apress, 2009

Accelerated Silverlight 3 teaches you how to get up to speed with the latest version of Silverlight quickly and efficiently. The book assumes you're already comfortable with the basics of .NET coding and with WPF and builds on your existing knowledge to make your journey to Silverlight 3 proficiency as quick and painless as possible....

The Business of IT: How to Improve Service and Lower Costs

IBM Press, 2009

Drive More Business Value from IT…

and Bridge the Gap Between IT and Business Leadership

Apply business practices throughout IT to optimize budgets and improve ROI

How to Manage People (Creating Success)

Kogan Page, 2008

How to Manage People is a practical new book from bestselling author Michael Armstrong. A distillation of all his knowledge and experience, it provides advice to managers and team leaders on how to manage people in their teams, getting the best results from them and dealing with any people problems that may arise.

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The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise

Addison Wesley, 2009

“This book is much more than you may think it is. Scale is not just about designing Web sites that don’t crash when lots of users show up. It is about designing your company so that it doesn’t crash when your business needs to grow. These guys have been there on the front lines of some of the most...

Sport Management: Principles and Application

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

Sport Management: principles and application provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice...

Fine- and Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Computing

Springer, 2007

Stamatis Vassiliadis was born in the small village of Manolates, on the Mediterranean island of Samos, Greece on July 19th, 1951. He passed away on April 7th, 2007 in Pijnacker, in the Netherlands. In between, he led a very remarkable life. As a child, he walked many kilometers through the mountains to reach his school and would study at night...

Technical Support Essentials: Advice to Succeed in Technical Support (Beginner to Intermediate)

Apress, 2009

Technical Support Essentials is a book about the many facets of technical support. It attempts to provide a wide array of topics to serve as points of improvement, discussion, or simply topics that you might want to learn. The topics range from good work habits to the way technical support groups establish their own style of work....

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present

Oxford University Press, 2009

Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation--is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, it has helped to shape the world we live in.

Civil Resistance...

As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Pivotal Moments in American History)

Oxford University Press, 2010

In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was...

The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, Book 12)

Tor Books, 2009

Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.

The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was...

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