This book takes you on a journey from the early days of PCs, through the evolution of technology, to the assembly of teams that built the bedrock of today's digital world. Sinofsky shares firsthand experiences, revealing the challenges and triumphs encountered while navigating Microsoft's corporate dynamics, and how external forces like the press and partnerships influenced the trajectory of personal computing. Hardcore Software is more than a recounting of tech history; it's narrative ric...

Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy.Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-describes how you can drive innovation by connecting the potential of strategic opportunities to the impact of operational execution.

The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets is now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing.With over a million copies sold, Geoffrey A. Moore’s classic has become the definitive model for any company launching disruptive innovations.Why do most high-tech ventures fail? They fall into the chasm—the vast gap between the first wave of visionary early adopters and the lucrative mainstream market. If you...

The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets is now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing.With over a million copies sold, Geoffrey A. Moore’s classic has become the definitive model for any company launching disruptive innovations.Why do most high-tech ventures fail? They fall into the chasm—the vast gap between the first wave of visionary early adopters and the lucrative mainstream market. If you...

Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and rapidly evolving digital experiences, and designers are starting to be included in strategic conversations about the products and services that enterprises ultimately deliver. This has led to companies building in-house digital/experience design teams at unprecedented rates, but many of them don’t understand how to get the most out of their investment. This practical guide provides guidelines for creating and leading desi...

“Our job as Scrum professionals is to continually improve our ability to use Scrum to deliver products and services that help customers achieve valuable outcomes. This book will help you to improve your ability to apply Scrum.”–From the Foreword by Ken Schwaber, co-author of ScrumMastering Professional Scrum is for anyone who wants to deliver increased value by using Scrum more effectively. Leading Scrum practitio...

Geoffrey Moore is one of the most respected and bestselling names in business books. In his widely quoted Crossing the Chasm, he identified and addressed the greatest challenge facing new ventures. Now he’s back with a book for established businesses that need to learn how to adapt—or suffer the slow declines into marginalized performance that have characterized so many Fortune 500 icons in recent years.Deregulation, globalization, and e-commerce are exerting unpre...

Best practices for managing projects in agile environments—now updated with new techniques for larger projectsToday, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly ...

Apply software-inspired management concepts to accelerate modern marketingIn many ways, modern marketing has more in common with the software profession than it does with classic marketing management. As surprising as that may sound, it's the natural result of the world going digital. Marketing must move faster, adapt more quickly to market feedback, and manage an increasingly complex set of customer experience touchpoints. All of these challenges are shaped by the...

Lean Development and Agile Methods for Large-Scale Products: Key Thinking and Organizational Tools for Sustainable Competitive SuccessIncreasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. However, many groups have floundered in their practice-oriented adoptions. Why? Because without a deeper understanding of the t...

Do your products take too long to get to market? The Rapid Learning Cycles framework is an approach to product development that has helped hundreds of teams get their products to market faster. When you can get your product into customers' hands faster, you see your vision brought to life sooner.  You can beat any competition to market with your best ideas. You can shorten the time it takes before your company begins to earn money from your ideas. You ...

Strategy to Reality brings together a vast number of perspectives and experiences, offering business leaders the straight talk necessary to clarify, simplify, and humanize business architecture with Whynde Kuehn’s practical and actionable approach.Whynde Kuehn’s vision can be summed up in one word: big. She loves climbing mountains—physical and metaphorical—and her most successful summit can be found in Business Architecture, an aspect of business developm...