Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the "what" and "why" of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager, product manager or facilitator then this book helps you to discover and apply new wa...

Agile emphasizes to establish teams and give them whatever they need to do their work. This book on impediments explores how teams can effectively deal with the problems that will happen in their daily work. In agile these problems are called impediments: anything that slows down a team and needs to be dealt with. Agile teams need to be able to handle impediments.This is the first book specifically about dealing with impediments using agile thinking with problem-solving practices. ...

This is the first book specifically about Agile Self-assessments. In this book, Ben Linders explains what self-assessments are and why you would do them, and explores how to do them using the Agile Self-assessment Game. He's also sharing experience stories from people who played the game.This book is based on his experience as a developer, tester, team leader, project manager, quality manager, process manager, consultant, coach, trainer, and adviser in Agile, Lean, Quality and Cont...

Many methods for product quality improvement start by investigating the problems, and then work their way back to the point where the problem started. For instance audits and root cause analysis work this way. But what if you could prevent problems from happening, by building an understanding what drives quality, thus enabling to take action before problems actually occur?What Drives Quality explores how quality plays a role in all of the software development activities. It takes a...

With emphasis on practical aspects of engineering, this bestseller has gained worldwide recognition through progressive editions as the essential reliability textbook. This fifth edition retains the unique balanced mixture of reliability theory and applications, thoroughly updated with the latest industry best practices.Practical Reliability Engineering fulfils the requirements of the Certified Reliability Engineer curriculum of the American Society for Quality (A...

Continuous Improvement - 30 Proven tools to drive Profitability, Quality and Operational Effectiveness in Manufacturing & Service Industry is the fourth book of Business process management and Continuous improvement Executive guide series.What will you learn from this book?This book covers the following topics-30 important Continuous improvement tools.How to construct and strategically use these tools during all the ...

Successful project management requires organization, skill, and a systematic approach to ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget. For both small and large organizations, Idiot's Guides: Project Management, Sixth Edition, is fully updated and includes coverage on the Fifth Edition of PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). Covering all of the latest methodologies, this new, step-by-step edition includes updated assessment questions for the PMP certification e...

Now in its second edition and written by a highly acclaimed maintenance professional, this comprehensive and easy-to-understand resource provides a short review of all the major discussions going on in the management of the maintenance function. This revision of a classic has been thoroughly updated to include advances in technology and thinking and is sure to be found useful by maintenance professionals everywhere. It's the perfect reference for any maintenance professional that needs a q...

In the quality management job, a significant activity is in constantly improving the quality of the business, such that products and services get better and better whilst costs go down and people in the business are motivated, loyal and proud of their work. Because quality is such a vital part of your business processes, isn't it time to make quality management part of your business solution? Given that ensuring the right quality level isn't just a task for the quality department—but for a...

Organizations invest a lot of time, money, and energy into developing and utilizing risk management practices as part of their project management disciplines. Yet, when you move beyond the project to the program, portfolio, PMO and even organizational level, that same level of risk command and control rarely exists. With this in mind, well-known subject matter expert and author Andy Jordan starts where most leave off. He explores risk management in detail at the portfolio, program, and PMO...

About the book-This book presents a practical way to build and improve business processes, and assists professionals whether they are learning the basics of business process improvement, planning their first improvement project, or evangelizing process oriented thinking throughout their organization.Who should read this book?This book is for Agile entrepreneurs, Leaders, QA (Quality Assurance) managers, Management con...

There has never been a PMP/PMBOK manual like this. 100 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of PMP/PMBOK . Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This book is also not about PMP/PMBOK 's best practice and standards details. Instead it introduces everything you want to know to ...