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  1. 142401

    Unlocking Agile's missed potential by Webber, Robert (Executive)

    Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, 2022
    Table of Contents: “…<P>Foreword 11</p> <p>Preface 13</p> <p>Introduction 16</p> <p>The Lost Potential of Agile Development 16</p> <p>Missed Business Expectations 18</p> <p>A New Approach to Agile Planning 19</p> <p>Addressing Traditional Software Development Challenges 21</p> <p>Motivation and Innovation 22</p> <p>Your Organization 22</p> <p><b>Chapter 1: The Persistence of Waterfall Planning 23</b></p> <p>Introduction to AccuWiz 23</p> <p>The New COO 24</p> <p>Product Management 24</p> <p>PMO 25</p> <p>Engineering 25</p> <p>Customer Perspective 26</p> <p>Synopsis 26</p> <p>Summary 27</p> <p><b>Chapter 2 -- Why Agile has Struggled 29</b></p> <p>Agile Development Fundamentals 30</p> <p>The Agile Revolution 30</p> <p>Scrum 31</p> <p>Kanban 34</p> <p>Barriers to Real Agile 35</p> <p>Schedule Pressure 35</p> <p>The "Motivation" Factor 37</p> <p>The Mythical Product Owner 39</p> <p>Feature Planning 40</p> <p>Agile Scaling Frameworks 41</p> <p>Summary 42</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: Embracing Software Development Variance 43</b></p> <p>The Cone of Uncertainty 43</p> <p>Software Development Estimation Variance Explained 44</p> <p>Making and Meeting Feature Commitments 45</p> <p>How Other Departments Meet Commitments 47</p> <p>Agile Development Implications 48</p> <p>Summary 48</p> <p><b>Chapter 4: Cost of Delay 49</b></p> <p>Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) 50</p> <p>Cost of Delay Basics 50</p> <p>Example 52</p> <p>WSJF Proof 54</p> <p>CoD and Net Present Value (NPV) Prioritization Methods 56</p> <p>Non-linear Income Profiles 57</p> <p>CoD for Non-Linear Cumulative Income Profiles 58</p> <p>Payback Period CoD Method 58</p> <p>Third-year Income Slope CoD Method 58</p> <p>CoD NPV Method 63</p> <p>CoD Computation Method 64</p> <p>WSJF and Traditional Finance 66</p> <p>ROI 66</p> <p>Investment Rate of Return (IRR) 67</p> <p>WSJF versus ROI Prioritization 67</p> <p>Summary 69</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: Investment Fundamentals 70</b></p> <p>Investments, Initiatives and Programs 70</p> <p>Investment Hierarchy 71</p> <p>AccuWiz Investment Examples 74</p> <p>Portfolio Allocation 75</p> <p>Investment Forecasts 76</p> <p>Development Effort and Cost 76</p> <p>Investment Income Forecasts 78</p> <p>Investment Backlogs 81</p> <p>Investment WIP 82</p> <p>Investment Backlog WIP 82</p> <p>Investment WIP 83</p> <p>Technical Debt Investments 84</p> <p>Summary 86</p> <p><b>Chapter 6: Maximizing Investment Value 87</b></p> <p>Great Products 87</p> <p>Business Model Value Considerations 89</p> <p>Stakeholder Value Analysis 90</p> <p>Gilb Stakeholder Definition 90</p> <p>Ford's Big Mistake 92</p> <p>Trucking Fleet Management Example 93</p> <p>Five Whys 95</p> <p>User Scenarios 96</p> <p>Summary 97</p> <p><b>Chapter 7: Planning High-Value Investment Features 99</b></p> <p>Avoiding the Feature Pit 99</p> <p>Feature ROI 100</p> <p>Summary 104</p> <p><b>Chapter 8: Releasing Investments 105</b></p> <p>Release Opportunity Cost 105</p> <p>Investment Release Bundling 108</p> <p>Investment Pricing 108</p> <p>Lack of Customer Acceptance 110</p> <p>Release Overhead Costs 111</p> <p>Overcoming Modular Release Challenges 113</p> <p>Architecture for Modular Deployment 113</p> <p>Configuration Management 113</p> <p>Release Investment Prioritization 114</p> <p>Reducing Software Inventory Costs 115</p> <p>Summary 118</p> <p><b>Chapter 9: Meeting Investment Targets 120</b></p> <p>Meeting Commitments 120</p> <p>Investment Teams 120</p> <p>Managing Investment Scope 123</p> <p>Managing Sales Requests 127</p> <p>Summary 129</p> <p><b>Chapter 10: Investment Planning Template 130</b></p> <p>Investment Description 130</p> <p>Proxy Business Case 130</p> <p>Product Stakeholder Analysis 132</p> <p>Customer Product Stakeholders 132</p> <p>Internal Product Stakeholders 132</p> <p>Constraints 132</p> <p>Competition 133</p> <p>Acceptance Criteria 133</p> <p>Go-to-Market Plan 134</p> <p>Pricing Model 134</p> <p>Deployment Model 134</p> <p>Sales Channels 134</p> <p>Investment Targets 134</p> <p>Development Cost 134</p> <p>Cycle Time 134</p> <p>Income Projections 134</p> <p>WSJF 136</p> <p>Assumption Validation 136</p> <p>Summary 138</p> <p><b>Chapter 11: Managing the Agile Roadmap 139</b></p> <p>The Agile Roadmap Management Database 139</p> <p>The Agile Technology Roadmap 141</p> <p>Stages of Technology Acquisition 142</p> <p>Investment Technology Roadmaps 143</p> <p>Summary 143</p> <p><b>Chapter 12: Maximizing Investment Development Productivity 145</b></p> <p>Measuring Software Productivity 145</p> <p>Cost of Quality (CoQ) 146</p> <p>Cost of Quality and Software Productivity 147</p> <p>Sources of Software Rework 149</p> <p>Agile Cost of Quality 150</p> <p>Reducing Agile User Story Rework 152</p> <p>Reducing Agile Defect Rework 153</p> <p>Agile Cost of Quality Example 154</p> <p>Summary 155</p> <p><b>Chapter 13: Motivating Agile Teams 156</b></p> <p>Background 156</p> <p>Why You're the Only Smart One in Your Organization 157</p> <p>Consequences and Behavior 158</p> <p>Performance and Organizational Culture 159</p> <p>Behavior and Software Quality 163</p> <p>Intrinsic Motivation 164</p> <p>Agile and Motivation 165</p> <p>Measuring Motivation 167</p> <p>Motivation Advice 169</p> <p>Summary 171</p> <p><b>Chapter 14: Innovating with Investments 173</b></p> <p>Innovation -- A Working Definition 174</p> <p>Investments as an Innovation Vehicle 175</p> <p>Why Your Organization Can't Innovate 176</p> <p>An Organizational Behavior Model of Innovation 178</p> <p>An Innovation Tale of Two Companies 181</p> <p>Creating a Culture of Innovation 184</p> <p>Summary 188</p> <p><b>Chapter 15: AccuWiz Gets it Together 189</b></p> <p>The Founder Meeting 189</p> <p>The Announcement 190</p> <p>Product Stakeholder Analysis 191</p> <p>Creating the Investment Backlog 192</p> <p>Customer Management 195</p> <p>Investment Development 195</p> <p>Project Management 196</p> <p>Managers 197</p> <p>Executive Team 198</p> <p>Innovation is Revived 199</p> <p>Synopsis 199</p> <p><b>Chapter 16: Getting it Together in your Company: A Practical Guide 200</b></p> <p>Step 1: Organizational Support 200</p> <p>Influence Strategy 204</p> <p>Step 2: Stakeholder Value Analysis 205</p> <p>Step 3: Stakeholder Research 206</p> <p>Step 4: Stakeholder Interviews 207</p> <p>Step 5: Investments 207</p> <p>User Scenarios 208</p> <p>Feature Definition 209</p> <p>WSJF Screening 209</p> <p>Step 6: Initial Roadmap 210</p> <p>Resource Allocation 211</p> <p>Step 7: Investment Planning 214</p> <p>Agile Roadmap Alignment Meeting 215</p> <p>Program Review 216</p> <p>Step 8: Consequence Alignment 217</p> <p>Summary 220</p> <p>Appendix 1: General Cost of Delay Formula 221</p> <p>Reinertsen WSJF 222</p> <p>Income Curve Approximation 223</p> <p>Summary 225</p> <p>Appendix 2: Investment Income Profile Forecasts 226</p> <p>Appendix 3: Release Cycle Productivity Formula 228</p> <p>Appendix 4: Rework and Productivity 232</p> <p>Appendix 5: Innovation Behavior Survey 233</p> <p>Glossary 238</p> <p>Index 246</p>…”
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  2. 142402

    Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities. by DePamphilis, Donald

    San Diego : Academic Press [Imprint] Elsevier Science & Technology Books. 2015
    8th ed.
    Table of Contents: “…. -- Chapter overview -- Relative valuation methods -- Asset-oriented methods -- The weighted average valuation methods -- Adjusting valuation estimates for purchase price premiums -- Real options analysis -- Determining when to use the different approaches to valuation -- Some things to remember -- Chapter discussion questions -- Practice problems and answers -- Case study : valuing the Twitter IPO -- Additional case study ; Financial modeling basics. …”
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  3. 142403

    Frontier and innovation in future computing and communications

    Dordrecht : Springer, 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Functional annotation of proteins by a novel method using weight & feature selection; J. Jung, et al -- Gaze Behavior Analysis System based on Objects Using Trajectory Information; J.…”
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  4. 142404

    Sustainable Development and Innovations in Marine Technologies : Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of the Maritme Association of the Mediterranean (IMAM 2019), Septemb...

    [Place of publication not identified] : CRC Press, 2019
    First edition.
    Table of Contents: “…Palomba Strength and weight characteristics of a self-propelled barge based on sandwich panel system construction M.S. …”
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  5. 142405

    No name by Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

    Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
    Format: Book


  6. 142406

    AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible by Finkelstein, Ellen, Ambrosius, Lee

    Indianapolis, Indiana : Wiley, 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Displaying shots -- Walking Through a Model -- Navigating in Walk mode -- Specifying Walk mode settings -- Flying through a model -- Saving the walk as a movie file -- Using a motion path to save a movie file -- Navigating with the SteeringWheels -- Using DVIEW to Create a Perspective View -- Using DVIEW -- Understanding the DVIEW options -- Working with Visual Styles -- Displaying visual styles in AutoCAD -- Creating custom visual styles -- Using the shading options in AutoCAD LT -- Display materials, textures, and lights as you work -- Laying Out 3D Drawings -- Flattening 3D drawings -- Creating 2D view objects -- Using SOLVIEW to lay out paper space viewports -- Using SOLDRAW to create hidden lines and hatching -- Using SOLPROF to create profiles -- Printing in 3D -- Summary -- ch. 23 Creating 3D Surfaces -- Drawing Surfaces with 3DFACE -- Using the 3DFACE command -- Making 3D face edges invisible -- Drawing Surfaces with PFACE.…”
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  8. 142408

    Temple Bar An Egyptian Novel. by Abdelmegid, Bahaa

    Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014
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  10. 142410

    Animation pie.

    Robert Bloomberg, Released by FilmWright, 1975
    Format: Video

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  11. 142411

    Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story.

    [San Francisco, California, USA] : Giant Interactive,; Kanopy Streaming, 2012; 2019
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  12. 142412

    Possessed by the past : the heritage crusade and the spoils of history by Lowenthal, David

    New York : Free Press, 1996
    Format: Book


  13. 142413

    The HistoryMakers video oral history with Harry J. Lennix.

    Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, 2016
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  14. 142414

    Matthew Arnold Papers, by Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888

    Format: Kit

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  15. 142415

    Swamplandia! by Russell, Karen, 1981-

    New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
    1st ed.
    Format: Book


  16. 142416

    Vietnamese bike dreams by Egawa, Yasuhiko

    New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1999
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  17. 142417

    Women and religious traditions

    Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
    Format: Book


  18. 142418

    And yet, I am here! by Nelken, Halina

    Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1999
    First English-language edition.
    Format: Book


  19. 142419

    After the fox

    Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, 2002
    Format: Video

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  20. 142420

    Walt Owen

    [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015
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