Thursday, December 3, 2009

Agile Project Management with Scrum or Investment Biker

Agile Project Management with Scrum

Author: Ken Schwaber

Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management-and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently. Help eliminate the ambiguity into which so many software projects are borne, where vision and planning documents are essentially thrown over the wall to developers. This high-level reference describes how to use Scrum to manage complex technology projects in detail, combining expert insights with examples and case studies based on Scrum. Emphasizing practice over theory, this book explores every aspect of using Scrum, focusing on driving projects for maximum return on investment.



Table of Contents:
Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1Backdrop: The Science of Scrum1
2New Management Responsibilities15
3The ScrumMaster25
4Bringing Order from Chaos37
5The Product Owner53
6Planning a Scrum Project67
7Project Reporting - Keeping Everything Visible83
8The Team101
9Scaling Projects Using Scrum119
A: Rules133
B: Definitions141
C: Resources145
D: Fixed-Price, Fixed-Date Contracts147
E: Capability Maturity Model (CMM)151
Index155

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Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers

Author: Jim Rogers

Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling business/adventure book, Investment Biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies.
Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including the United States), read this book by the man Time magazine calls “the Indiana Jones of finance.”
Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers’s global motorcycle journey/investing trip, with hardheaded advice on the current state and future direction of international economies that will guide and inspire investors interested in foreign markets.

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