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99 Bottles of OOP is a practical guide to writing cost-effective, maintainable, and pleasing object-oriented code. It explores: Recognizing when code is "good enough" Getting the best value from Test-Driven Development (TDD)

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Discover how to coach your team to become more Agile. Agile Coaching de-mystifies agile practices--it's a practical guide to creating strong agile teams. Packed with useful tips from practicing agile coaches Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley, this book gives you coaching tools that you can apply whether you are a project manager, a technical lead, or working in a software team.

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Agile Estimating and Planning is the definitive, practical guide to estimating and planning agile projects. In this book, Agile Alliance cofounder Mike Cohn discusses the philosophy of agile estimating and planning and shows you exactly how to get the job done, with real-world examples and case studies. Concepts are clearly illustrated and readers are guided, step by step, toward how to answer the following questions: What will we build? How big will it be? When must it be done? How much can I really complete by then? You will first learn what makes a good plan-and then what makes it agile. Using the techniques in Agile Estimating and Planning , you can stay agile from start to finish, saving time, conserving resources, and accomplishing more. Highlights include:
Why conventional prescriptive planning fails and why agile planning works
How to estimate feature size using story points and ideal days–and when to use each
How and when to re-estimate
How to prioritize features using both financial and nonfinancial approaches
How to split large features into smaller, more manageable ones
How to plan iterations and predict your team's initial rate of progress
How to schedule projects that have unusually high uncertainty or schedule-related risk
How to estimate projects that will be worked on by multiple teams
Agile Estimating and Planning supports any agile, semiagile, or iterative process, including Scrum, XP, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, DSDM, Unified Process, and many more. It will be an indispensable resource for every development manager, team leader, and team member.

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The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum’s simplicity itself—its lack of prescription—can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons—the successes and failures—culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management. Through them, you’ll understand how to use Scrum to solve complex problems and drive better results—delivering more valuable software faster.
Gain the foundation in Scrum theory—and practice—you need to:

Rein in even the most complex, unwieldy projects
Effectively manage unknown or changing product requirements
Simplify the chain of command with self-managing development teams
Receive clearer specifications—and feedback—from customers
Greatly reduce project planning time and required tools
Build—and release—products in 30-day cycles so clients get deliverables earlier
Avoid missteps by regularly inspecting, reporting on, and fine-tuning projects
Support multiple teams working on a large-scale project from many geographic locations
Maximize return on investment!

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Testing is a key component of agile development. The widespread adoption of agile methods has brought the need for effective testing into the limelight, and agile projects have transformed the role of testers. Much of a tester’s function, however, remains largely misunderstood. What is the true role of a tester? Do agile teams actually need members with QA backgrounds? What does it really mean to be an “agile tester?”

Two of the industry’s most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, have teamed up to bring you the definitive answers to these questions and many others. In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help. The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors
of agile testing.

Readers will come away from this book understanding
* How to get testers engaged in agile development
* Where testers and QA managers fit on an agile team
* What to look for when hiring an agile tester
* How to transition from a traditional cycle to agile development
* How to complete testing activities in short iterations
* How to use tests to successfully guide development
* How to overcome barriers to test automation

This book is a must for agile testers, agile teams, their managers, and their customers.

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Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly—you concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details. Rails 5.1 brings many improvements, and this edition is updated to cover the new features and changes in best practices.

We start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. Follow along with an extended tutorial as you write a web-based store application. Eliminate tedious configuration and housekeeping, seamlessly incorporate Ajax and JavaScript, send emails and manage background jobs with ActiveJob, build real-time features using WebSockets and ActionCable. Test your applications as you write them using the built-in unit, integration, and system testing frameworks, internationalize your applications, and deploy your applications easily and securely. New in this edition is support for Webpack and advanced JavaScript, as well as Rails’ new browser-based system testing.

Rails 1.0 was released in December 2005. This book was there from the start, and didn’t just evolve alongside Rails, it evolved with Rails. It has been developed in consultation with the Rails core team. In fact, Rails itself is tested against the code in this book.

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Learn Rails the way the Rails core team recommends it, along with the tens of thousands of developers who have used this broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference. If you’re new to Rails, you’ll get step-by-step guidance. If you’re an experienced developer, get the comprehensive, insider information you need for the latest version of Ruby on Rails.
The new edition of this award-winning classic is completely updated for Rails 6 and Ruby 2.6, with information on system testing, Webpack, and advanced JavaScript.

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Je bent succesvol leider, hebt veel eindverantwoordelijkheden en je oefent je functie al jaren met veel plezier uit. Maar je voelt dat er meer plezier uit je werk te halen valt. Iets houdt dat tegen en je krijgt geen grip op wat daarvan de oorzaak is. Je zoekt verbetering, maar zit vast in een patroon. Voor die leider is Authentiek leiderschap het aangewezen boek. De basis van deze uitgave is het in de praktijk getoetste zeven-schillenmodel, waarbij elke schil je als lezer dichter bij je kern brengt. Stapsgewijs ontdek je jouw antwoorden op essentiële vragen als: wat wil je bereiken in het leven, wat zijn jouw normen en waarden, waar sta je voor, wat is jouw missie en hoe maak je die waar? Je leert hoe je als authentiek leider anderen inspireert en zelf gelukkiger wordt. De opdrachten en cases helpen je daarbij. Authentiek leiderschap is een soms confronterend boek dat je als leidinggevende, coach, adviseur of docent zal inspireren tot het creëren van een omgeving waarin prestaties en geluk elkaar positief beïnvloeden. Het boek werkt in combinatie met de bijbehorende cd en de website www.authenthiekleiderschap.nl als een 'zelfcoachingsconcept'. De cd bevat de opdrachten uit het boek en hun uitwerking, de belangrijkste vaardigheden voor Authentiek leiderschap en interactieve cases. Ook zijn er korte samenvattingen en een steeds verschillende stelling van de dag.

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The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.

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BDD in Action teaches you the Behavior-Driven Development model and shows you how to integrate it into your existing development process. First you'll learn how to apply BDD to requirements analysis to define features that focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, you'll discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, you'll apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code.

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