Download or read book Tips from the Trenches written by and published by PSVillage. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're looking for guidance on building and managing a Technology Professional Services Organization, you'll find 165 great tips in this book from folks who've been there and know first hand the trials and tribulations of running a services organization. Inside this book you'll find real-life experiences and "lessons learned" that will help you create and run a first-class services organization. Whether you're with a startup with just a few Consultants or with a Fortune 500 company with a sizable services organization, the gems provided in this book will give you insight into a range of topics, from setting up your Services strategy and charter; to Services marketing and selling; to business operations, organizational design, services delivery and offshoring. Written by over 100 Professional Services industry experts, you won't find a more comprehensive book on this subject anywhere. If you'd like to contribute to our next book or just connect with your peers, join our PS community at www.psvillage.com.
Download or read book Dance Education Tips from the Trenches written by Cheryl M. Willis and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, k, p, e, i, t.
Download or read book Business in the Trenches written by David Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business in the Trenches shows how you can exploit the lessons of the Great War to win on the business battlefield. Business in the Trenches by David Schroeder combines compelling military history with insightful business analogies. It demonstrates clearly how companies grapple with the same problems as armies at war. Business in the Trenches describes how you can leverage the experiences war to solve vexing problems and defeat the competition. Business in the Trenches takes readers through a number of fascinating stories from World War One, a time of dramatic change in warfare. It draws parallels between the problems faced by armies on the battlefield, and the problems facing businesses today. Business in the Trenches unravels the mystery of why World War One turned into the quagmire it did, and how most organizations today follow similar paths for the same reasons. Most importantly, it provides detailed and practical advice on how to deal with specific challenges and achieve breakthrough success. Schroeder demonstrates that while times may change, human nature does not. This is especially true in the high pressure worlds of business and warfare. Schroeder's common sense yet controversial theories about World War One decisions, show them to be eerily similar to those made in business today. The same forces motivate people, and they still make similar choices for similar reasons. Understanding what produces victory or disaster, and why, enables you to succeed where most fail. About the Author David Schroeder is a globally experienced business consultant, a distinguished military officer, and a critically acclaimed designer of historical military simulations. He has helped high tech companies around the world increase their productivity and profitability. He is a Colonel in the Army Reserve, and has received awards at the highest levels. He was featured along with the Army Chief of Staff in videos on improving organizational performance. Schroeder has published a number of well-received detailed studies on the Great War.
Download or read book Telesales Tips from the Trenches written by Joe Catal and published by Business By Phone Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tips From The Agile Trenches written by Yves Hanoulle and published by Objectsoft Bvba. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002 the agile manifesto was published. Since then thousands of people have been trained in scrum & other agile ways of working. The first sentence of the agile manifesto says: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. This book is about helping others and contains tips Yves collected from people in the trenches, eg people who are doing it. agile working improves with more diversity, this book contains tips from 89 different people, living in 28 countries and with 28 (different) nationalities. With tips from: Sander Hoogendoorn Ivan Darmawan Naresh Jain Diana Larsen Michael Sahota Mike Cohn Shane Hastie Ben Linders Katrina Clokie Henrik Kniberg Christopher Avery Johanna Rothman Karthik Kamal B Ardita Karaj Jutta Eckstein Yassal Sundman Aino Corry Clare Sudbery Rashina Hoda Lisette Sutherland Samantha Laing Karen Graeves Judy Rees Allison Pollard Linda Rising Mina Boström Nakicenovic Michele Sliger Jenni & Ole Jepsen Emilie Franchomme George Dinwiddie Siddharta Govindaraj Woody Zuill Nicole Belilos Vasco Duarte Angela Riggs Chris Matts Bart Vermijlen Lisa Crispin Zuzi Sochova Corey Ladas Rini Van Solingen Dana Pylayeva Stacey Ackerman Tim Ottinger Ivo Peksens Tom Perry Tobias Fors Hina Popal Terry Harmer Olaf Lewitz Joanne Perold Stacia Viscardi Emily Webber Tobias Anderberg Heidi Helfand Ravi Kumar Cesario Ramos Corinna Baldauf Jeff Patton Ron Jeffries Tom Cagley Oana Juncu Nele Van Beveren Jimmy Janlén Irene Kuhn Michael (Mike) Hill Ilan Kirschenbaum Jürgen De Smet Lanette Creamer Daria Bagina Phil Gadzinski Tony Ponton Roman Pichler Madhavi Ledalla Brenda Bao Tze Chin Tang Selena Delesie Molood Ceccarelli Nadezhda Belousova Anke Maerz Daniel Terhorst-North Deepti Jain Karen Catlin Tsutomu Yasui Kanatcha Sakdiset Kevlin Henney
Download or read book The Real Business 101 written by Jim Sobeck and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Business 101: Lessons From the Trenches is a collection of business tips from a serial entrepreneur covering all phases of running a business. These tips are based on a successful 40 year career running several types of businesses from start-ups to turnarounds to growing an already successful business. Tips include hiring, firing, doing acquisitions, sales, marketing, and much more
Download or read book Marketing from the Trenches written by Rudolf J. Waldner and published by Gotham City Pub. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through anecdotes, real-life experiences, and documented growth trends, the book reveals to readers proven methods that will grow their business.
Download or read book The Best of the Teaching Professor written by Magna Publications Incorporated and published by Magna Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from the newsletter, The teaching professor.
Download or read book Lessons from the Trenches written by Erin Wolf and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're a professional woman who wants to get to the next level in your career, Lessons from the Trenches is the book you need. With clear, simple examples and illustrative stories from women who are making a real difference in corporate America, Erin Wolf explains why hard work is almost never enough to vault women into the executive suite. The most successful women have vision, guts, and the ability to make a male-dominated culture work in their favor. A 20-year veteran of the country's most prestigious financial services and consulting firms, Erin shows you how to crack the good old boy code and use that knowledge to your advantage, without ever having to become one of the guys. Her Lucky Seven Rules provide a road map to principled, ethical success. Frank and honest about her own journey, Erin will become your trusted guide as you make your way into, through-and perhaps even out of-the corporate jungle.
Download or read book Three Clicks Away written by Michael Drapkin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Web, you should never be more than 3 clicks away from the information you need 3 Clicks Away delivers the collective experience of three distinguished Internet strategists who have led e-commerce initiatives for such notable firms as Gateway, Dow Jones, iVillage, Nickelodeon, and Casio. This book is a tactical guide that demonstrates how to develop e-commerce strategy, revamp the organization so that it can support e-commerce initiatives, and manage complex multidisciplinary projects. 3 Clicks Away provides the solutions and tools executives and managers need to successfully launch and maintain e-commerce sites. It provides critical information on organizational, financial, and project management tactics.
Download or read book 1 Best Tools Tips from the Trenches written by Mary Olsen Kelly and published by Books Beyond Borders LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Girls in Crisis written by Martha B Straus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a difference amid a culture of despair. From anorexia to sex to depression and pregnancy, the lives of teen girls are often awash in rage and despair.
Download or read book A Survival Guide for Paralegals written by Alan Gelb and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers tips from successful legal professionals on how to survive on the job as a paralegal. The book discusses paralegal work issues, asking for a raise, and office politics, and gives advice on the job search, administrative responsibilities, time management, and juggling work and family.
Download or read book Scrum and XP from the Trenches 2nd Edition written by Henrik Kniberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a team of approximately 40 people and how they continuously improved their process over a year's time. Under the leadership of Henrik Kniberg they experimented with different team sizes, different sprint lengths, different ways of defining "done", different formats for product backlogs and sprint backlogs, different testing strategies, different ways of doing demos, different ways of synchronizing multiple Scrum teams, etc. They also experimented with XP practices - different ways of doing continuous build, pair programming, test driven development, etc, and how to combine this with Scrum. This second edition is an annotated version, a "director's cut" where Henrik reflects upon the content and shares new insights gained since the first version of the book.
Download or read book Getting the Story Straight written by Homer L. Hall and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of all great newspapers are great journalists who not only excel at researching and interviewing, but can also turn that legwork into a persuasive, well-organized news article. In this volume, students will gain insight into each step of the reporting process: generating story ideas, finding sources, asking good questions, writing a lead that will grab readers' attention, structuring an article, integrating quotes, and writing captions for accompanying photos. Whether students are writing a recap story or doing an investigative feature, these tips will enrich any young journalist's writing ability.
Download or read book Lean from the Trenches written by Henrik Kniberg and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is illustrated with a photo or diagram, and anecdotes bring you inside the project as you discover why and how one organization modernized its workplace in record time. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Find out how the Swedish police combined XP, Scrum, and Kanban in a 60-person project. From start to finish, you'll see how to deliver a successful product using Lean principles. We start with an organization in desperate need of a new way of doing things and finish with a group of sixty, all working in sync to develop a scalable, complex system. You'll walk through the project step by step, from customer engagement, to the daily "cocktail party," version control, bug tracking, and release. In this honest look at what works--and what doesn't--you'll find out how to: Make quality everyone's business, not just the testers. Keep everyone moving in the same direction without micromanagement. Use simple and powerful metrics to aid in planning and process improvement. Balance between low-level feature focus and high-level system focus. You'll be ready to jump into the trenches and streamline your own development process.
Download or read book Scenario Paintball written by Don Grubish and published by Modern Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the ultimate field guide for anyone wishing to play scenario paintball. From rules of the game and safety guidelines to scenario game ideas and team tactics. This book offers it all to the beginning and advanced players looking to improve their game.
