Books

This book helps you design an application with the UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling tool, Enterprise Architect.It shows you how to write a Business Requirement Document (BRD) using a real-life Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, an application with 20 years in the market.

With plenty of exercises for your personal retrospective toolbox, Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives will help you to become more proficient in doing retrospectives and to get more out of them - Foreword by Esther Derby, co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

This brief and engaging book can be of use to anyone who has to interact with other people. How to offer feedback when asked or hired to do so. Why feedback tells more about the giver than the receiver. How feedback is distorted or resisted by the receiver's point of view and defense mechanisms. And in dozens of enjoyable vignettes, how humans have struggled to understand each others' responses.

Discover how public procurement really works—across governments and donor-funded projects—with this practical and accessible guide. In clear terms, it explains the principles, categories, and methods used to acquire goods, works, and services with public funds. Whether you're new to procurement or need a structured refresher, this second edition equips you to work with integrity, efficiency, and impact.

With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on software quality, this book will help you to improve the quality of your software and to deliver high-quality products to your users and satisfy the needs of your customers and stakeholders.

We find ourselves in turbulent times. In the aftermath of the UK's decision to leave the European Union we have entered a dramatic period of political and economic uncertainty the like of which many of us have never known before. And in a climate where no two experts can agree on the best way forwards, there has never been a more crucial time for company bosses and business leaders to create a strategy for change to see them safely through the geo/political and economical storms that lie ahead.

This third volume of the series on experiential learning concerns itself principally with creating those experiences that simulate some life situation. This volume focuses on those simulation exercises, providing lots of examples and variations, using all the senses and all parts of the brain.

Designed to demonstrate how to debrief educational experiences, Experiential Learning 2 : Invention is "a gold mine" of questions and exercises useful for conducting retrospectives of on-the-job work. What could be more eductational than on-the-job work?

Become your own boss with this practical guide to becoming a successful independent consultant. Using content marketing, learn to build relationships with colleagues and potential clients, so people ask for you by name.

At present, the Experiential Learning series currently consists of four volumes. This first volume—Beginning—concerns getting started: starting using the experiential method, starting to design exercises, and getting a particular exercise off to a good start. It should be particularly helpful for short classes—a day or two, or even an hour or two—though it could be for starting to use experiential parts of a longer workshop consisting of both short and long experiential pieces as well as more traditional learning models.