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Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale
by Gary Gruver Tommy MouserSoftware is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most technology executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require.Leading-edge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software projects faster than anyone thought possible. But most executives don't understand how to transform their current legacy systems and processes to scale these principles across their organizations.Leading the Transformation is executive guide, providing a clear framework for improving development and delivery. Instead of the traditional Agile and DevOps approaches that focus on improving the effectiveness of teams, this book targets the coordination of work across teams in large organizations—an improvement that executives are uniquely positioned to lead.
Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore's First CIO
by Alex SiowExplore the insights of a world-leading CIO as he expounds on the challenges faced by technology executives and how to overcome them As the pace of change in business continues to rapidly accelerate, Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers are often left with accountability for future-proofing their organizations. Renowned professor, executive, and author Alex Siow shows you how you can meet that challenge while managing the information overload that often accompanies these positions. In Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore’s First CIO, the author uses his expansive and impressive experience in academia and industry to lead you down a path to achieving success as a CIO or CTO. Filled with practical tips, case studies, and personal insights, the book discusses: The management of legacy information and telecommunications technology The information overload often suffered by technology executives How to motivate and mentor a workforce How to manage change effectively The fostering of innovation The future of money, work, and artificial intelligence Perfect for CIOs, CTOs, and the executives, managers, and employees who work with and for them, Leading with IT delivers an engaging and insightful exploration of what it takes to achieve astounding results at the intersection of technology and business.
Leading with Sound: Proactive Sound Practices in Video Game Development
by Rob BridgettLeading with Sound is the must-have companion guide to working on video game projects. Focused on the creative, collaborative, philosophical and organizational skills behind game sound and eschewing the technical, this book celebrates the subjects most essential to leading with sound in video game development at any level. Refuting the traditional optics of sound as a service in favour of sound as a pro-active visionary department, , this book examines each of the four food-groups of dialogue, sound design, music and mix, not through the usual technical and production lenses of ‘how’ and ‘when’, but the essential lens of ‘why’ that enables leadership with sound. Leading with Sound is essential reading for aspiring sound designers, inside and outside of the classroom, as well as experienced professionals in the game industry.
Leaflet.js Essentials
by Paul Crickard IIIIf you are a web developer working with geospatial concepts and mapping APIs, and you want to learn Leaflet to create mapping solutions, this book is for you. You need to have a basic knowledge of working with JavaScript and performing web application development.
League of Legends: Realms of Runeterra (Official Companion)
by Riot GamesUnlock the mysteries and magic within League of Legends, one of the world's most popular video games, in this encyclopedic and collectible companion book that explores the game's epic lore. Embark on a journey through the realms of Runeterra in this first-ever collectible companion book, published to celebrate the game's tenth anniversary. Spanning the farthest reaches of this universe and venturing into uncharted territory, this encyclopedic compendium connects players to the rich storytelling that inspires all the action. Inside, you'll find:An expedition through eleven regions, chronicling conflicts, entrenched rivalries, and covert alliancesHundreds of illustrations, including never-before-seen maps and artworkInsights into the heroes, flora, fauna, architecture, politics, and technologies from all corners of this worldOriginal narratives that bring the cultures of Runeterra to lifeLeague of Legends is an online game played by millions of people around the world, offering endless engagement with an expanding roster of champions, frequent updates, and a thriving esports scene. This volume is an essential reference for fans everywhere.
Leakage Resilient Password Systems
by Yingjiu Li Qiang Yan Robert H. DengThis book investigates tradeoff between security and usability in designing leakage resilient password systems (LRP) and introduces two practical LRP systems named Cover Pad and ShadowKey. It demonstrates that existing LRP systems are subject to both brute force attacks and statistical attacks and that these attacks cannot be effectively mitigated without sacrificing the usability of LRP systems. Quantitative analysis proves that a secure LRP system in practical settings imposes a considerable amount of cognitive workload unless certain secure channels are involved. The book introduces a secure and practical LRP system, named Cover Pad, for password entry on touch-screen mobile devices. Cover Pad leverages a temporary secure channel between a user and a touch screen which can be easily realized by placing a hand shielding gesture on the touch screen. The temporary secure channel is used to deliver a hidden message to the user for transforming each password symbol before entering it on the touch screen. A user study shows the impact of these testing conditions on the users' performance in practice. Finally, this book introduces a new LRP system named ShadowKey. Shadow Key is designed to achieve better usability for leakage resilient password entry. It leverages either a permanent secure channel, which naturally exists between a user and the display unit of certain mobile devices, or a temporary secure channel, which can be easily realized between a user and a touch screen with a hand-shielding gesture. The secure channel protects the mappings between original password symbols and associated random symbols. Unlike previous LRP system users, Shadow Key users do not need to remember anything except their passwords. Leakage Resilient Password Systems is designed for professionals working in the security industry. Advanced-level students studying computer science and electrical engineering will find this brief full of useful material.
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Translation/transnation Ser. #40)
by Tarek El-ArissHow digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek El-Ariss situates these critiques of power within a pervasive culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by digital technology yet emerge from traditional cultural models.Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, El-Ariss connects WikiLeaks to The Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective scene-making of Arab popular culture. He shifts the epistemological and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and intellectual debate.Theorizing the rise of “the leaking subject” who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly political means, El-Ariss investigates the digital consciousness, virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of scandal.Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals maps the changing landscape of Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual, the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.
Lean AI: How Innovative Startups Use Artificial Intelligence to Grow
by Lomit PatelHow can startups successfully scale customer acquisition and revenue growth with a Lean team? Out-of-the-box acquisition solutions from Facebook, Google, and others provide a good start, but the companies that can tailor those solutions to meet their specific needs, objectives, and goals will come out winners. But that hasn’t been an easy task—until now.With this practical book, author Lomit Patel shows you how to use AI and automation to provide an operational layer atop those acquisition solutions to deliver amazing results for your company. You’ll learn how to adapt, customize, and personalize cross-channel user journeys to help your company attract and retain customers—to usher in the new age of Autonomous Marketing.Learn how AI and automation can support the customer acquisition efforts of a Lean StartupDive into Customer Acquisition 3.0, an initiative for gaining and retaining customersExplore ways to use AI for marketing purposesUnderstand the key metrics for determining the growth of your startupDetermine the right strategy to foster user acquisition in your companyManage the increased complexity and risk inherent in AI projects
Lean Architecture
by James O. Coplien Gertrud BjørnvigMore and more Agile projects are seeking architectural roots as they struggle with complexity and scale - and they're seeking lightweight ways to do itStill seeking? In this book the authors help you to find your own pathTaking cues from Lean development, they can help steer your project toward practices with longstanding track recordsUp-front architecture? Sure. You can deliver an architecture as code that compiles and that concretely guides development without bogging it down in a mass of documents and guesses about the implementationDocumentation? Even a whiteboard diagram, or a CRC card, is documentation: the goal isn't to avoid documentation, but to document just the right things in just the right amountProcess? This all works within the frameworks of Scrum, XP, and other Agile approaches
Lean Branding: Creating Dynamic Brands to Generate Conversion (Lean (o'reilly) Ser.)
by Laura BuscheEvery day, thousands of passionate developers come up with new startup ideas but lack the branding know-how to make them thrive. If you count yourself among them, Lean Branding is here to help.This practical toolkit helps you build your own robust, dynamic brands that generate conversion. You’ll find over 100 DIY branding tactics and inspiring case studies, and step-by-step instructions for building and measuring 25 essential brand strategy ingredients, from logo design to demo-day pitches, using The Lean Startup methodology’s Build-Measure-Learn loop.Learn exactly what a brand is—and what it isn’tBuild a minimal set of brand ingredients that are viable in the marketplace: brand story, brand symbols, and brand strategyMeasure your brand ingredients by using meaningful metrics to see if they meet your conversion goalsPivot your brand ingredients in new directions based on what you’ve learned—by optimizing rather than trashingFocus specifically on brand story, symbols, or strategy by following the Build-Measure-Learn chapters that apply
Lean Computing for the Cloud
by Eric BauerApplies lean manufacturing principles across the cloud service delivery chain to enable application and infrastructure service providers to sustainably achieve the shortest lead time, best quality, and value <p><p> Applies lean thinking across the cloud service delivery chain to recognize and minimize waste <p> Leverages lessons learned from electric power industry operations to operations of cloud infrastructure <p> Applies insights from just-in-time inventory management to operation of cloud based applications <p> Explains how traditional, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Enhanced Telecom Operation Map (eTOM) capacity management evolves to lean computing for the cloud
Lean Customer Development
by Cindy AlvarezHow do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research--before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, you'll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. These insights may shake your assumptions, but they'll help you reach the "ah-ha!" moments that inspire truly great products.Validate or invalidate your hypothesis by talking to the right peopleLearn how to conduct successful customer interviews play-by-playDetect a customer's behaviors, pain points, and constraintsTurn interview insights into Minimum Viable Products to validate what customers will use and buyAdapt customer development strategies for large companies, conservative industries, and existing products
Lean Customer Development.
by Cindy AlvarezZnaj klienta swego Zweryfikuj swoj? hipotez?, rozmawiaj?c z w?a?ciwymi osobami. Krok po kroku naucz si? prowadzi? skuteczne wywiady Customer Development. Rozpoznawaj zachowania klientów, ich problemy i ograniczenia. Na podstawie pozyskanych w ten sposób informacji zbuduj minimalnie satysfakcjonuj?cy produkt, który pozwoli Ci potwierdzi?, co klienci s? sk?onni kupi? i czego b?d? u?ywa?. Dostosuj techniki sk?adaj?ce si? na model Customer Development do potrzeb du?ych organizacji, konserwatywnych bran? i istniej?cych ju? produktów.Jak tworzy? produkty, które ludzie b?d? chcieli kupowa?? Bez wzgl?du na to, czy jeste? w?a?cicielem niewielkiej firmy czy pracownikiem wielkiego koncernu, zadajesz sobie to samo pytanie. Je?li szukasz niezawodnej metody badania potrzeb i preferencji klientów, dzi?ki której zaoszcz?dzisz wiele miesi?cy pracy oraz mnóstwo pieni?dzy, zapraszamy do ?wiata Lean Customer Development.To metoda id?ca o krok dalej ni? tradycyjne techniki marketingowe. Nie tylko pomo?e Ci pozna? potrzeby i preferencje klientów oraz zg??bi? user experience, ale zweryfikuje t? wiedz? na drodze eksperymentów naukowych. Dzi?ki odpowiedniemu po??czeniu otwartych wywiadów oraz szybkich i elastycznych technik badawczych dowiesz si?, jak zachowuj? si? Twoi potencjalni klienci, jakie problemy usi?uj? rozwi?za?, a tak?e co ich frustruje, a co jest przedmiotem ich zachwytów. Dowiedz si?, jak zmienia? zachowania konsumentów, tworzy? wielkie produkty i budowa? trwa?? firm?.Ksi??ki z serii Lean, serii, której redaktorem jest http://helion.pl/autorzy/eric-ries,eriris.htm">Eric Ries, za?o?yciel ruchu Lean Startup. Niniejsza ksi??ka k?adzie nacisk na podstawowe aspekty metodologiczne i zawiera praktyczne przyk?ady, opracowane z my?l? o deweloperach, mened?erach i innych cz?onkach zespo?u Twojego startupu. Dzi?ki niej poznasz skuteczne narz?dzia i przyjmiesz sposób my?lenia sprzyjaj?cy podejmowaniu szybkich i m?drych decyzji.
Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy
by Cindy AlvarezHow do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, you’ll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. These insights may shake your assumptions, but they’ll help you reach the "ah-ha!" moments that inspire truly great products.Validate or invalidate your hypothesis by talking to the right peopleLearn how to conduct successful customer interviews play-by-playDetect a customer’s behaviors, pain points, and constraintsTurn interview insights into Minimum Viable Products to validate what customers will use and buyAdapt customer development strategies for large companies, conservative industries, and existing products
Lean Digital Transformation: Geschäftsmodelle transformieren, Kundenmehrwerte steigern und Effizienz erhöhen
by André KievietLernen Sie mit diesem Buch, wie Sie Prozesse der Lean Digital Transformation erfolgreich umsetzenMit seinem Buch „Lean Digital Transformation“ zeigt André Kieviet, dass die Umsetzung digitaler Strukturen innerhalb größerer Organisationen keine unlösbare Aufgabe ist. Finden Sie heraus, wie Sie die Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung für Unternehmen nutzen können. Ein situatives Ordnungsschema unterstützt Sie bei der Frage nach relevanten, technologischen Werkzeugen.Methodisches Wissen und Praxisempfehlungen stehen im FokusZunächst beantwortet der Autor die grundlegenden Fragen „Was ist Digitalisierung und warum gibt es gerade jetzt diesen Hype?“. Auf diese Weise wird Ihnen dieses Konzept verständlich erläutert. Anschließend widmet sich Kieviet dem pragmatischen Ansatz der Lean Digital Transformation. Der Begriff „Lean“ wurde von ihm bewusst gewählt und beleuchtet zwei Perspektiven:Lean steht für Einfachheit: Firmen sollten nicht digitalisieren, nur um sich einem aktuellen Trend unterzuordnen. Vielmehr geht es um die zielorientierte Nutzung von Informationen mit maschineller Hilfe.Lean steht für das Konzept des Lean Managements: Durch den absoluten Fokus auf den Kundenmehrwert soll jegliche Form der Verschwendung im Rahmen des digitalen Umbruchs reduziert werden.André Kieviet führt diese beiden Dimensionen zusammen. Durch diesen pragmatischen, sowie anhand von Beratungsprojekten entwickelten Ansatz, eignen Sie sich nicht nur neues, methodisches Wissen an. Gleichzeitig dient Ihnen dieses Werk als Praxisleitfaden, mit dem Sie neue Anwendungsfelder der Digitalisierung sowie anwendbare Technologien für Ihr Unternehmen entdecken. Auf diese Weise sind Sie in der Lage, die digitalen Transformationsprozesse von Geschäftsmodellen, Unternehmenskultur oder der Mitarbeiterkommunikation selbst zu meistern – ideal für Praktiker, Unternehmer sowie Berater.
Lean Entrepreneurship: Innovation In The Modern Enterprise
by George Watt Howard AbramsUtilize this comprehensive guide in your organization to create a corporate incubator that protects innovative ideas from oppressive corporate processes and culture and gives those ideas the resources and environment they need to grow and have the best possible chance to thrive. Innovation is hard. Ironically, innovation in a large enterprise can be even more difficult. Policies designed for mature businesses often crush emerging businesses along with the entrepreneurial spirit of the innovators. Procedures can make it difficult, even impossible, for innovative employees to get their ideas funded, or even seen. As a result, even companies with their roots in innovation can find themselves unable to innovate, with a devastating impact on employee morale and often resulting in the exodus of the most creative employees. In Lean Intrapreneurship the authors leverage decades of personal experience innovating in large enterprises to explore the root causes of failure to innovate in established organizations, and offer a solution to the innovator’s dilemma. The book includes a recipe for creating a repeatable program for innovating in large organizations, including tools, tips, and strategies developed by the authors as they created an innovative incubation program for a multi-billion-dollar technology company. It also offers a wealth of information to help aspiring intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. What You’ll LearnDiscover the most common reasons that innovation fails in established organizationsExplore techniques to make innovative ideas a successFollow a recipe to create a program to enable innovation across your companyUnderstand the power of transparency inside and outside an incubatorDevelop employees and foster a culture of innovation across your company Who This Book Is For Anyone with an innovative idea who wants to make it real but does not know where to begin; anyone struggling to innovate inside an established company; anyone who wishes to make their existing company more lean, agile, and efficient; anyone who wishes to start a program to incubate new, innovative ideas inside an established company
Lean Game Development: Apply Lean Frameworks to the Process of Game Development
by Julia Naomi Rosenfield BoeiraMaster Lean UX and Lean Startup techniques to improve your agile game development experience beyond Scrum. This updated version of the book focuses on applying lean and agile methodologies to the game development process and features improved examples, applied techniques, and a whole new section explaining how to test a game in Unity with CI. You'll see how to define a minimum viable product (MVP) for games with Lean Canvas, allowing customers to iterate over it and collect feedback for improvement at every cycle. All of these are achieved while still using standard Agile techniques. The first part of the book explains the ideation process of a game and how lean methodologies allow developers, especially small studios, to avoid scope creep. Next, it it provides guidance on creating MVPs and using player feedback to iterate and improve games. The book then discusses continual improvement (CI) methods. A crucial part of CI is generation of Lean Canvas. Lean Game Development, Second Edition shows you how to iterate until you develop a game that satisfies developers, gamers, and your studio's financial goals.What You'll LearnStudy lean and agile methodologies to enhance the game development process Find out how to improve the way game productions define value and iterate over itApply development strategies to enrich the game development processWho This Book Is ForPeople from all sectors of the gaming industry will find the book useful in planning their project in a more iterative way, unloading the management burden on the development process and collecting feedback to improve the game content as early as possible.
Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation
by Steven C Bell Michael A OrzenWinner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardInformation Technology is supposed to enable business performance and innovation, improve service levels, manage change, and maintain quality and stability, all while steadily reducing operating costs. Yet when an enterprise begins a Lean transformation, too often the IT department is ei
Lean Mobile App Development
by Alberto Gonzalez Mike Van Drongelen Adam Dennis Richard Garabedian Aravind KrishnaswamyDevelop lean iOS and Android apps using industry standard techniques and lean development practices. About This Book • Build ready-to-deploy apps with less iterations and shorter development times • Adopt the lean startup methodologies to develop iOS and Android apps that shine in the App Store • This hands-on guide puts continuous innovation into practice to develop successful mobile apps Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, CTOs, and architects working for a startup or another kind of lean startup environment, such as start-up within a cooperation. It is is ideal for any iOS and Android developer who wants to build successful mobile apps by adopting the lean startup methodology. What You Will Learn • Apply the lean startup methodology to real Android and iOS development • Define what your hypotheses are by creating an Minimal Viable Product • Validate your idea against the Business Model Canvas • Gather feedback through statistics and by getting user comments, learn from it, and adapt your app accordingly • Develop skills and devise strategies to build versatile and flexible apps that meet changing business requirements • Investigate the possibilities when you need to pivot your start-up idea whether in a startup or an established business. • Create a successful app and get tips on how to boostconversion and how to optimize the on boardingprocess. In Detail Lean is the ultimate methodology for creating a startup that succeeds. Sounds great from a theoretical point of view, but what does that mean for you as an a technical co-founder or mobile developer? By applying the Lean Start-up methodology to your mobile App development, it will become so much easier to build apps that take Google Play or the App Store by storm. This book shows you how to bring together smarter business processes with technical know-how. It makes no sense to develop a brilliant app for six months or longer only to find out later that nobody is interested in it. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Validate your hypotheses early and often. Discover effective product development strategies that let you put Facebook's famous axiom "move fast and break things" into practice. A great app without visibility and marketing clout is nothing, so use this book to market your app, making use of effective metrics that help you track and iterate all aspects of project performance. Style and approach This book takes a hands-on approach to developing apps through the Lean Start-up Methodology. Following a 50% business and 50% tech approach, this book is filled with practical examples and real-world experiments.
Lean Out: The Struggle For Gender Equality In Tech And Start-up Culture
by Elissa ShevinskyWhy aren't the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should people who don't fit in seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Does the tech industry deserve women leaders? The split between the stated ideals of the corporate elite and the reality of working life for women in the tech industry--whether in large public tech companies or VC-backed start-ups, in anonymous gaming forums, or in Silicon Valley or Alley--seems designed to crush women's spirits. Corporate manifestos by women who already fit in (or who are able to convincingly fake it) aren't helping. There is a high cost for the generation of young women and transgender people currently navigating the harsh realities of the tech industry, who gave themselves to their careers only to be ignored, harassed and disrespected. Not everyone can be a CEO; not everyone is able to embrace a workplace culture that diminishes the contributions of women and ignores real complaints. The very culture of high tech, where foosball tables and endless supplies of beer are de facto perks, but maternity leave and breast-feeding stations are controversial, is designed to appeal to young men. Lean Out collects 25 stories from the modern tech industry, from people who fought GamerGate and from women and transgender artists who have made their own games, from women who have started their own companies and who have worked for some of the most successful corporations in America, from LGBTQ women, from women of color, from transgender people and people who do not ascribe to a gender. All are fed up with the glacial pace of cultural change in America's tech industry. Included are essays by anna anthropy, Leigh Alexander, Sunny Allen, Lauren Bacon, Katherine Cross, Dom DeGuzman, FAKEGRIMLOCK, Krys Freeman, Gesche Haas, Ash Huang, Erica Joy, Jenni Lee, Katy Levinson, Melanie Moore, Leanne Pittsford, Brook Shelley, Elissa Shevinsky, Erica Swallow, and Squinky. Edited and selected by entrepreneur and tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture: ''I've figured out a way to create safe space for myself in tech,'' writes Shevinsky. ''I've left Silicon Valley, and now work remotely from home. I adore everyone on my team, because I hired them myself.
Lean Product Management: Successful products from fuzzy business ideas
by Mangalam NandakumarA guide to product management exploring the best practices: identifying the impact-driven product, planning for success, setting up and measuring time-bound metrics, and developing a lean product roadmap.Key FeaturesIdentifying Impact-Driven ProductsInvesting in Key Business OutcomesValue mapping to maintain a lean product backlogUtilizing time-bound product metricsEliminating process wasteBook DescriptionLean Product Management is about finding the smartest way to build an Impact Driven Product that can deliver value to customers and meet business outcomes when operating under internal and external constraints. Author, Mangalam Nandakumar, is a product management expert, with over 17 years of experience in the field. Businesses today are competing to innovate. Cost is no longer the constraint, execution is. It is essential for any business to harness whatever competitive advantage they can, and it is absolutely vital to deliver the best customer experience possible. The opportunities for creating impact are there, but product managers have to improvise on their strategy every day in order to capitalize on them. This is the Agile battleground, where you need to stay Lean and be able to respond to abstract feedback from an ever shifting market. This is where Lean Product Management will help you thrive. Lean Product Management is an essential guide for product managers, and to anyone embarking on a new product development. Mangalam Nandakumar will help you to align your product strategy with business outcomes and customer impact. She introduces the concept of investing in Key Business Outcomes as part of the product strategy in order to provide an objective metric about which product idea and strategy to pursue. You will learn how to create impactful end-to-end product experiences by engaging stakeholders and reacting to external feedback. What you will learnHow do you execute ideas that matter?How can you define the right success metrics?How can you plan for product success?How do you capture qualitative and quantitative insights about the product? How do you know whether your product aligns to desired business goals?What processes are slowing you down?Who this book is forIf you are leading a team that is building a new product, then this book is for you. The book is targeted at product managers, functional leads in enterprises, business sponsors venturing into new product offerings, product development teams, and start-up founders.
Lean Python
by Paul GerrardLearn only the essential aspects of Python without cluttering up your mind with features you may never use. This compact book is not a "best way to write code" type of book; rather, the author goes over his most-used functions, which are all you need to know as a beginner and some way beyond. Lean Python takes 58 Python methods and functions and whittles them down to 15: as author Paul Gerrard says, "I haven't found a need for the rest. " What You'll Learn Discover lean Python and how to learn just enough to build useful tools Use Python objects, program structure, I/O, modules and more Handle errors and exceptions Test your code Access the Web; do searching; and persist data Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at three categories of reader: The experienced programmer - if you already know a programming language, this book gives you a shortcut to understanding the Python language and some of its design philosophy. You work in IT and need a programming primer - you might be a tester who needs to have more informed technical discussions with programmers. Working through the examples will help you to appreciate the challenge of good programming. First-timer - you want a first book on programming that you can assimilate quickly to help you decide whether programming is for you.
Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO
by Peter T. Davis William BentleyGoing beyond the usual how-to guide, Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO supplies proven tips and valuable case studies that illustrate how to combine Six Sigma's rigorous quality principles with Lean methods for uncovering and eliminating waste in IT processes. Using these methods, the text explains how to take an approach that is all about im
Lean Six Sigma im Bankensektor: Operative und strategische Anwendungen für Theorie und Praxis
by Vijaya Sunder M L. S. GaneshDieses Buch untersucht eine Reihe möglicher Wege, Modelle sowie operativer und strategischer Ansätze für Lean Six Sigma (LSS), eine zeitgemäße Praxis der kontinuierlichen Verbesserung (CI) zur Erzielung eines qualitätsbasierten Wettbewerbsvorteils in Organisationen. Fallstudien von Lean-Six-Sigma-Projekten in Bankunternehmen helfen, die operativen Dimensionen von LSS zu veranschaulichen, während die hier vorgestellten fallspezifischen und fallübergreifenden Analysen den strategischen Wert von LSS demonstrieren. Die Falldaten, die zur Gewinnung der Erkenntnisse herangezogen wurden, stammen zwar aus dem Bankensektor, ermöglichen jedoch eine Verallgemeinerung über den Bank- und Finanzdienstleistungssektor hinaus.Das Buch vertritt die Auffassung, dass LSS nicht nur eine KI-Praxis ist, sondern eine übergeordnete organisatorische Fähigkeit, genauer gesagt eine dynamische Fähigkeit, die es Unternehmen ermöglicht, einen auf Qualität basierenden Wettbewerbsvorteil zu erzielen. Das Buch richtet sich an Praktiker und Forscher gleichermaßen und schafft ein Gleichgewicht zwischen Theorie und Praxis.Für Praktiker bietet es einen Leitfaden für den Einsatz von LSS zur Erzielung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen und für evidenzbasierte Praktiken im Qualitätsmanagement und der operativen Exzellenz. Für Wissenschaftler stellt es eine Fülle von Literatur vor und erweitert den Wissensschatz zum Qualitätsmanagement. Dementsprechend ist das Buch sowohl für Praktiker als auch für Forscher von unschätzbarem Wert, da es ersteren hilft, den Wert von LSS sowohl als operative als auch als strategische Ressource zu erschließen, und letzteren potenzielle Forschungsrichtungen und Anwendungen aufzeigt."Dieses Buch vermittelt ein tiefes Verständnis der Lean Six Sigma-Anwendungen. Es inspiriert, indem es die Prinzipien des Konzepts auf ungewöhnliche Bereiche von Betrieb und Management jenseits des üblichen Qualitäts- und Projektmanagements überträgt. Beim Lesen des Buches kam mir die großartige Idee, Lean Six Sigma auch in meinem digitalen Unternehmenanzuwenden. Am Ende des Buches hatte ich den Eindruck, dass die Möglichkeiten für den richtigen Einsatz von Lean Six Sigma grenzenlos sind, insbesondere wenn man es aus der Perspektive der dynamischen Fähigkeiten betrachtet. Die Leser dieses Buches werden sicherlich Einblicke in die Verbesserung ihrer Geschäftsprozesse sowohl in operativer als auch in strategischer Hinsicht erhalten. Obwohl sich das Buch auf den Bankensektor konzentriert, eignet es sich eigentlich für ein sehr breites Publikum. Es handelt sich um eine brillante Forschungsarbeit und ein Buch, das als Leitfaden für die Transformation durch das Prisma von Lean Six Sigma dienen wird."- Professorin. Dr. ZornitsaYordanova, Leitende Assistenzprofessorin für Innovationsmanagement, Universität für nationale und internationale Wirtschaft, Sofia, Bulgarien"Lean Six Sigma muss aus einer Systemperspektive heraus verstanden werden, undes besteht eine große Wissenslücke in diesem Bereich, wenn es darum geht, ganzheitliche Lösungen für Geschäftsprobleme zu finden. Dieses Buch ist ein sehr willkommenes Werk, das diese Forderung aufgreift. Es integriert die Ressourcen des Qualitätsmanagements und die Sichtweise der dynamischen Fähigkeiten in die Praxis. Der Bereich Banken und Finanzdienstleistungen wurde passend gewählt, da er für Sozialunternehmen am unmittelbarsten anwendbar ist. Jeder, der mit weniger Mitteln mehr Wirkung erzielen möchte, wird von der Lektüre dieses Buches profitieren.-Alex Abraham, Hauptgeschäftsführer, Lean Success Partners, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kanada"Das Buch ist eine erfrischende Bereicherung für die Welt des Qualitätsmanagements, insbesondere im Kontext von Banken und Finanzdienstleistungen. Konzepte und Begriffe wie "Schnelligkeit von Lean & Robustheit von Six Sigma zur Lösung operativer Probleme" "Hybride Methodik" passen sehr gut zu dem, was wir heute in der Branche tun.Ein weiterer interessanter Aspekt des Buches ist die Anwendung des "Dynamic Capabilities"-Ansatze
Lean Software Development in Action
by Giancarlo Succi Andrea JanesThis book illustrates how goal-oriented, automated measurement can be used to create Lean organizations and to facilitate the development of Lean software, while also demonstrating the practical implementation of Lean software development by combining tried and trusted tools. In order to be successful, a Lean orientation of software development has to go hand in hand with a company's overall business strategy. To achieve this, two interrelated aspects require special attention: measurement and experience management. In this book, Janes and Succi provide the necessary knowledge to establish "Lean software company thinking," while also exploiting the latest approaches to software measurement. A comprehensive, company-wide measurement approach is exactly what companies need in order to align their activities to the demands of their stakeholders, to their business strategy, etc. With the automatic, non-invasive measurement approach proposed in this book, even small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have the resources to introduce heavyweight processes will be able to make their software development processes considerably more Lean. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, "Motivation for Lean Software Development," explains just what "Lean Production" means, why it can be advantageous to apply Lean concepts to software engineering, and which existing approaches are best suited to achieving this. Part II, "The Pillars of Lean Software Development," presents the tools needed to achieve Lean software development: Non-invasive Measurement, the Goal Question Metric approach, and the Experience Factory. Finally, Part III, "Lean Software Development in Action," shows how different tools can be combined to enable Lean Thinking in software development. The book primarily addresses the needs of all those working in the field of software engineering who want to understand how to establish an efficient and effective software development process. This group includes developers, managers, and students pursuing an M. Sc. degree in software engineering.