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* Christopher Negus is the bestselling author of Red Hat Linux 8 Bible (0-7645-4968-5) and earlier versions, with more than 125,000 copies sold
* Readers learn to build sixteen fun and useful devices for home and office, using spare parts and free software
* Projects include transforming an answering machine into an e-mail converter, building an MP3 music jukebox, building a car entertainment center, and creating a TV video recorder/player
* Projects work with any version of Linux
* Companion Web site includes specialized hardware drivers and software interfaces, plus music and game software.
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Are you being asked to manage a project with:

- unclear requirements?
- high levels of change?
- a team using Extreme Programming or other Agile Methods?

If you are a project manager or team leader who is interested in learning the secrets of successfully controlling and delivering agile projects, then you have come to the right place.

From learning how agile projects are different from traditional projects, to detailed guidance on a number of agile management techniques and how to introduce them onto your own projects, we have the insider secrets from some of the industry experts – the visionaries who developed the agile methodologies in the first place.

Other books on the topic present a single management method for agile projects; this one, however, presents management techniques that are common to all agile development methods. So, whether you are using Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Feature-Driven Development (FDD), one of the Crystal Methods, Lean Development, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), or any other agile method, this book is written for you.

Managing Agile Projects contains well over 400 pages packed full of insider tips on how to make these methods work for you. Chapters focus on topics critical to the success of projects facing changing requirements and seemingly impossible deadlines. Chapters cover topics such as engineering unstable requirements, active stakeholder participation, conducting agile meetings, extreme testing, agile documentation, and how to use agile methods under fixed price contracts. The book also provides information to help you plan your agile projects better to avoid some common pitfalls introduced by the fast pace and concurrent activities common to agile development methods. This book will show you the tricks to keeping agile projects under control.

You can apply some of the techniques in this book to your current project, right now. Why wait any longer?.
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While you might think your project plan is perfect, would you bet your life on it? In World War II, a group of 220 captured airmen did just that -- they staked the lives of everyone in the camp on the success of a proejct to secretly build a series of tunnels out of a prison camp their captors thought was escape proof. The prisoners formally structured their work as a project, using the proejct organization techniques of the day. This book analyzes their efforts using modern project management methods and the nine knowledge areas of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK Guide). Learn from the successes and mistakes of a project where people really put their lives on the line.

A portion of the sale of each copy of this book goes to The Great Escape Memorial Project..
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Over the past 30 years, companies have spent millions (if not billions) of dollars on Project Management tools, techniques, methods, processes, procedures, and training to help their managers successfully plan, organize, monitor, and control their projects. After all of this investment, however, the same percentage of projects are failing today as there were 30 years ago. In this 2 CD set, Richard Morreale presents over 50 killer ideas that will help your projects become successful: delivering on time, within budget, and meeting your client's expectations. This energetic and dynamic speaker brings life to this subject, sharing the lessons he's learned in his decades of experience managing high-profile projects for government and industry..
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We ve all heard about them projects where things go so wrong that they make the newspapers Sometimetimes the project fails during its design stage, sometimes during its build stage, or sometimes during its post-launch operational stage. Whatever the case, these projects fail, and fail BIG. But do any come close to the track- record of the cruise ship Titanic: four years in development (1909-1912) and only 4 days in operation? Facing a financial loss that could bankrupt the company, plus thousands of potential lawsuits, the company that owned the ship was eager to participate in two official government inquiries that sought out who to blame for the disaster. Learn from this historical project so that YOU don t get caught as the Project Scapegoat if one of your projects fails..
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Berkeley Bohemia highlights the contributions of the eccentric residents of one of America's centers of cultural innovation, during a critical period in the development of the country's radical thought. These writers and artists included Ansel Adams, Jack London, Dorothea Lange, John Muir, Bernard Maybeck, Joaquin Miller, Ina Coolbrith, and Charles and Lousie Keeler and other colorful characters less well known today.
Due to its vibrant setting as a crossroads of cultures, Berkeley continues as a fertile ground for individuality, eccentricity, and creative expression. The Berkeley legacy of scholars and visionaries has inspired three generations of men and women, who still make Berkeley a place where ordinary people can flourish creatively, and the extraordinary is welcomed.
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Many organizations are starting to reap rewards from adding Agile methods to their development practices. Learn what Project Managers and Business Analysts need to know about Extreme Programming (XP), User Stories and "The Planning Game." Specifically, this recording will give practical Agile tips and tricks including how to specify User Stories to effectively drive out your Client’s true business requirements.

In this recording, you will:

- Understand how User Stories can be an effective technique for gathering user requirements.
- Learn tips & techniques on how to do User Stories effectively.
- Know how detailed User Stories need to be specified.
- Know exactly how many User Stories are required.
- Learn the PM’s and BA’s role in an XP development environment..
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"Lean Thinking" has dominated product development and project management for over a decade. Now, however, a six-year study by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program led by Michael Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka finds that, in order to dramatically improve product portfolios, Toyota and other leading companies are moving beyond single-project management on which lean thinking is based. In Thinking Beyond Lean, Cusumano and Nobeoka show that single-project management can produce isolated hit products and "fat" designs that contain few common components and many unnecessary parts and features. As a result, in this era of slowing growth and falling profits, leading companies are maximizing their investment by utilizing a groundbreaking concept the authors call "multi-project management." Drawing on a data base of 210 automobile products and detailed case studies from Toyota, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Renault, and Fiat, the authors demonstrate how product development teams can share engineers and key common components but retain separate designers to maintain distinctive product features. The result: multi-project management has brought these companies huge savings in development and production costs.

Cusumano and Nobeoka's findings will be required reading for every company that makes more than one product. Taking up where The Machine That Changed the World left off, Thinking Beyond Lean will change the way leaders do business now and in the future..
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