Software Development Management

You have a limited amount of time to create software, especially when you’re given a deadline, self-imposed or not. You’ll want to make sure that the software you build is at least decent but more importantly, on time. How do you balance quality with time? This audiobook dives into these very important topics. After listening to Scrum Essentials, you will know about scrum roles, sprints, scrum artifacts, and much more.

You see, most people make the same mistakes when it comes to getting things done, as well as getting the right things done. But with this audiobook, you can learn about Kanban methodology so you can optimize the workflow to serve a specific purpose, ensuring customer satisfaction. This audiobook is organized in such a way that anybody, even a complete beginner, can learn from it. This guide is also perfect for experienced people, those who are looking for a new system to add quality to their work.

Have you ever tried your hand at software development only to find out that it’s much harder than you prepared for? Not only do you have to make sure that your skills are at par with everybody else, but there is also the matter of coordinating with everyone involved in that project. And with collaboration comes the potential for complexity.

Managing Developers in the Age of Entitlement: A Tech Leader's Guide is an essential resource for navigating the nuanced challenges of modern tech leadership. This book presents a comprehensive examination of the evolving landscape of software development management, particularly in the context of today’s entitlement culture within tech teams. At the core of this guide is an insightful exploration into managing the unique attitudes and behaviors emerging in the tech world, where entitlement and individualism are increasingly prevalent. The book begins by dissecting the origins and impacts...

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As an engineer, ever found yourself asking the question: “What the heck is my manager doing?!”. I have, many times. Perhaps you’re on your way to becoming a manager yourself, in which case you might be asking: “What the heck am I getting myself into?!”. Of course, if you’re a manager already, chances are you’ve asked yourself at least once: “What the heck am I doing wrong?!”. No matter how you put it, the question on all of our minds at some point has been: “What should the manager be doing?”, and the only good way to answer that question, is to first answer the ...

Making a presentation strikes fear into many hearts. It ranks alongside going to the dentist or being put into a cage with a hungry lion or two! Wherever it sits along the fear scale for you, this guide is designed to get through it if not actually reaching the point of enjoying giving a presentation. This guide includes: how to research and prepare a presentation; how to structure a presentation; how to manage information overload; how to use scripts, prompts, visual aids, and handouts; and more.

The Engineering Manager’s How-To Guide is written by an engineering manager (yours truly) for engineering managers. When I first became an engineering manager, I wasn’t as effective as I could have been. I’ve always been an avid reader, I’ve read many leadership books, I could recite paragraphs from Simon Sinek’s famous book, Start With Why and I could retell all the stories from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Don’t get me wrong, those books were totally amazing, and they helped me in being a great people manager but I wasn’t a very effective ...

The Agile methodology is a project management methodology that uses short development cycles (called "sprints") to focus on continuous improvement in the development of a product or service. It consists of a family of methods (including Scrum, extreme programming (XP), test-driven development (TDD), and feature-driven development (FDD), each of which has the objective to provide a better product in less time, avoiding development of useless functions and overcoming errors that a traditional planning method could result in, both for big and small projects.

Are you a coder or part of a development team? If so, you've likely heard of Agile principles, SCRUM, and Kanban. But what do these terms really mean? In this book, Agile, SCRUM and Kanban Foundations, we will delve into each of these topics. We'll discuss how they can improve your productivity as a software developer, and we'll also talk about avoiding costly mistakes organizations make when adopting Agile principles. Now, if you expect to find terms and definitions that you'll quickly forget, you won't find them here. My goal is to help you understand the core values behind agility in a ...

The dramatic increase in cyber compromises over the past five years, specifically of software supply chains, prompted intense scrutiny of measures to strengthen the resilience of supply chains for software used throughout government and critical infrastructure. Several policies and working groups at multiple levels within the U.S. Government focus on this need to ensure the authenticity, integrity, and trustworthiness of software products.

El articulo analizado nos relaciona directamente todo lo que hemos visto con respecto a la administración del conocimiento y su vinculación con la Norma ISO 9001:2015 (Sistemas de gestión de calidad) siendo más específicos con los 7 principios que guían el proceso de calidad: Enfoque en el cliente, liderazgo, compromiso de la gente, enfoque de procesos, mejora continua, decisión basada en evidencia, gestión de relaciones".

Leading an Agile team calls for unexpected changes and typical project management tactics. You simply can't approach an Agile project with the same mentality as you usually use. Agile teams are self-organized, self-directing, and lack a hierarchical structure that often defines project management.

"Conquer the CLEP Information Systems Exam" is your ultimate companion for preparing for the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) in Information Systems. This comprehensive study guide covers all the essential topics and concepts tested in the exam, providing you with the knowledge and skills needed to ace the test with confidence. Inside, you'll find detailed explanations, practice questions, and exam strategies designed to help you master key areas such as office systems, e-commerce, enterprise-wide systems, information processing methods, internet technologies, and more. Whether ...

In this course, Talking Confidently for Software Engineers, learn different strategies to make you feel confident in stressful software development situations. Please note that this course does not teach you how to speak, as you already know that, but instead introduces strategies to help you feel more confident before, during, and after stressful talking and debating situations.

Business owners and managers are under increasing pressure to perform. Never has there been a better time to practice good people motivation and management techniques. Lack of employment security and flexible working contracts have reduced the level of loyalty, so more emphasis needs to be placed on building positive relationships with people. Traditional carrot-and-stick management techniques no longer work.

Today's tech unicorns develop software differently. They've developed a way of working that lets them scale like an enterprise while working like a startup. These techniques can be learned. This book takes you behind the scenes and shows you how companies like Google, Facebook, and Spotify do it. Leverage their insights, so your teams can work better together, ship higher-quality product faster, innovate more quickly, and compete with the unicorns.

How would you like to work so productively from home that what used to take you eight hours in an office could take you just four hours remotely? With this audiobook, you’ll discover the secrets to not just getting things done when you’re working from home, but getting them done fast.