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The advantages of lean and agile business modeling and agile delivery became evident. Even agile contracts are in place more and more. However the procurement process didn't became agile nor lean yet. Lean-Agile Procurement is a new, exciting simple approach for procurement, that makes fun. The results will surprise you!-Lead time of sourcing a new partner is reduced to days, most important customer problems are solved first and the risk -to evaluate the wrong partner- is minimized.

As an employer, are you aware that mental health issues affect one in four adults? That's 25% of your employee base. As you recruit new employees, one in four applicants is likely to have experienced mental health issues at some point. This guide will walk you through the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) employer rights and obligations, accommodations you must make versus those you're not obligated to make, and ideas to go beyond the bare minimum to help employees.

A step-by-step guide into analysing businesses and their marketplace to develop actionable corporate insight. "Wardley maps" are diagrams of a business' environment which serve as powerful communications tools and guides: learn how to create these maps using a straightforward process, and harness their power in your business.

Effectiveness  is the capability of producing a desired result. In our professional life, effectiveness relates to getting the right things done. Becoming effective is key to prosper throughout our professional career. It is a combination of managing ourselves, our tasks, energy and our personal development. This book targets young professionals...

Technical leads and managers work hard to hire the best people, choose the best tools, implement the best process, and deliver great software. Unfortunately, our actions may sabotage our best efforts, producing frustrated teams, poor quality and driving away our best developers. This book covers 7 ways technical managers harm their teams.

Technical leads and managers work hard to hire the best people, choose the best tools, implement the best process, and deliver great software. Unfortunately, our actions may sabotage our best efforts, producing frustrated teams, poor quality and driving away our best developers. This book covers 7 ways technical managers harm their teams.

You can either tell people what to do or help them generate their own solutions. There's a place for both. This book digs into this arena as it pertains to individuals and teams.

Today, companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be agile. By combining Beyond Budgeting,Open Space, Sociocracy, and Agile, this book provides a practical guide for companies that want to be agile company-wide.

¿Qué estoy haciendo al igual que en mi pasado que hace que siga obteniendo los mismos resultados? Albert Einstein nos decía: “La locura es hacer siempre lo mismo y esperar resultados diferentes”. La innovación y el crecimiento vinculados a las tecnologías permiten obtener resultados extra-ordinarios. Si el CIO se encuentra comprometido y las decisiones son tomadas en base al resultado innovador que quiere alcanzar, estaremos presentes a un nuevo tipo de liderazgo en IT. Steve Jobs diferenciaba: “La innovación es lo que distingue al líder de sus seguidores”

Agile Coaches unterstützen Teams, Organisationen und Individuen in ihrer Veränderung im Sinne des agilen Manifests. Sie nutzen dafür Coaching, Training und Sekundärberatung. Judith Andresen erläutert in diesem grundlegenden Text, wie agiles Coaching genau funktioniert.

I have been involved in the software business for over 40 years and during this time my views on how to help software teams succeed has evolved so much that what I recommend today often seems opposite to the fundamentals many of us were taught.  In this book I provide true software development stories that may challenge long held thinking.

Over 25 years ago my parents made a decision that probably saved my life; they gathered my brothers and sisters and together as a family coax me into leaving my home in El Salvador. leaving behind everyone I loved. With the clothes on my back and $100 my parents gave me, I embarked in a journey full of hope and unknowns. The chronicles within are my humble effort to share my journey with you, with the hope that what I have learned in life and applied in my journey to become the CTO of a multi-million dollar business can help you help others and in the process help you in your own journey.

This book is an introductory level text into the emergence of a new paradigm devoted to understanding, predicting and influencing the behavior of the firm based upon on our increased capacity to tackle complexity.