Product Description: Build Agile Cultures That Unleash Passion, Innovation, and Performance What do you want? Delighted customers. How do you get them? By rapidly delivering innovative, exciting products and services your customers will love to use...read more

Product Description: Want a great software development team? Look no further. How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team is a field guide and instruction manual for finding and hiring excellent engineers that fit your team, drive your success, and provide you with a competitive advantage...read more

Product Description: The non-technical guide to building a booming tech-enabled business Thinking of starting a technology-enabled business? Or maybe you just want to increase your technology mojo so you can do your job better? You do not need to learn programming to participate in the development of today’s hottest technologies...read more

Product Description: In the enterprise software industry, large platform vendors have established partner networks with smaller providers of complementary solutions. This study takes the perspective of these complementors. How do they coordinate their partnerships with platform vendors? What are the circumstances under which different coordination mechanisms lead to partnership success? Based on existing theories and the findings from extensive qualitative research, a new explanatory model is developed...read more

Product Description: If there’s a software startup company in your developer heart, this is the book that will make it happen. The Web Startup Success Guide is your one-stop shop for all of the answers you need today to build a successful web startup in these challenging economic times...read more

This practical, user-friendly handbook specifically addresses software companies that are interested in implementing effective improvement processes into the daily work life of every employee. A wealth of checklists, templates, exercises, tips, and pitfalls to avoid make it easy for readers to integrate quality awareness into their organization’s day-to-day processes at every level.

Product Description: This book will teach you, the software student, practitioner and/or manager, how to become competitive in the global resource pool in which we reside. In sometimes humorous, mostly direct conversation, this book discusses understanding the customer, serving the customer, and learning to discern what really matters along the way by exploring some difficult and often unpopular subjects: · The professional software talent pool is truly global and we are only grains of sand on a world beach · There is more value in seeing the forest than worshiping the tree · Know when to solve a problem, when to simplify, and when to be quiet · Delivering a technical solution is a social problem · Overpay the right people for the right reasons · Serve the customer and provide immediate value or someone else wil...read more

Product Description: Eric.Weblog() has 50,000 regular users; consistently included on the list of the most popular feeds in bloglines.com Sink founded a company that was named to the Inc 500 Book explains tough topics like marketing and hiring, in terms that programmers understand―all sprinkled with a touch of humor ...read more

Focusing on the needs of a startup ISV, a guide for entrepreneurial programmers describes how to develop and market a software product or Web-based service and how to build a software development company, explaining how to become a Micro Independent Software Vendor, how to attract venture capital, customer service, and other vital areas of concern. Original. (Intermediate)

Winner Of The 2007 Shingo Prize For Excellence In Manufacturing Research!Lean production, which has radically benefited traditional manufacturing, can greatly improve the software industry with similar methods and results. This transformation is possible because the same overarching principles that apply in other industries work equally well in software development. The software industry follows the same industrial concepts of production as those applied in manufacturing; however, the software industry perceives itself as being fundamentally different and has largely ignored what other industries have gained through the application of lean techniques.Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers, shows how the most advanced concepts of lean production can be applied to software development and how current software development practices are inadequate.Written for software engineers, developers, and leaders who need help creating lean software processes and executing genuinely lean projects, this book draws on the personal experiences of the two authors as well as research on various software companies applying lean production to software development programs.

Product Description: Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts...read more

For fans of the movie Office Space and Dilbert, Bill Blunden provides a trench-level view of working in a dysfunctional environment along with lessons in corporate self-defense. All users.

The co-author of Microsoft Secrets links issues related to strategy and organization to those of managing technology, arguing that companies must chose a business model that will capitalize on good times and survive more difficult periods, and presenting the success stories of such companies as IBM, Toshiba, and Motorola. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Effective Way to Produce Improvements for Project Management and Software Engineering! Leading Culture Change in Your Software Organization: Delivering Results Early is the first industry-specific guide to managing change. You ll find today s best strategies for quick wins and long-term gains when managing Software Process Improvement (SPI) and culture change...read more

Interviews with such high-tech entrepreneurs as John Chambers, Tim Koogle, and Eric Schmidt journey behind the scenes of some of Silicon Valley's most innovative companies and reveal the secrets of their success. First serial, Upside magazine.

Examines the most important and influential business ideas to emerge from Silicon Valley companies, detailing how risk-taking combined with vision to create high-tech industry success stories. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Every day, project leaders are approached with haunting questions such as: What is the primary reason why projects fail? How technical should managers be? What are the duties of a project management office? These haunting questions, along with many more, are just a few of the questions and answers Whitten discusses in his latest book, The EnterPrize Organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)