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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Developer Experience Unleashed: The Art of Crafting Efficient Developer Environments
Book SynopsisExplore the intricate world of developer experience (DX) and its impact on the software development process. This book delves into the critical components of DX, such as documentation, tooling, API design, developer support, performance, and reliability, providing actionable insights and strategies to help organizations create development environments that foster productivity, collaboration, and satisfaction among developers.The main topics you’ll review include the evolution of software development methodologies, the intersection of user experience (UX) and DX, and an in-depth exploration of the critical components of DX. You’ll also look at practical approaches to improving DX, real-world examples of organizations that have successfully transformed their developer experience, and a discussion of DX's future trends and challenges. These topics are crucial as the software development landscape has become increasingly complex and competitive. Developer experience is no longer a luxury but a necessity for organizations seeking to attract top talent, drive innovation, and stay ahead in the industry. As the line between UX and DX continues to blur, it is imperative to understand how these two aspects are intertwined and how they can synergistically contribute to the success of software projects. Moreover, these topics are particularly relevant now, as remote work and distributed teams become more commonplace, making it even more critical for organizations to provide developers with the resources, tools, and support they need to be successful. Developer Experience Unleashed will inspire you to recognize the critical role of DX in the software development process and to adopt best practices that foster a synergistic environment where developers and users can thrive together. What You’ll Learn The evolution of software development methodologies Key DX concepts and components Strategies for Improving DX The interconnected nature between DX and user experience Current trends and challenges facing teams and businesses Future trends and opportunities in DX Who This Book Is For Software development professionals, team leads, managers, and executives interested in understanding and improving the developer experience within their organizations.Table of ContentsDeveloper Experience Unleashed CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPER EXPERIENCECHAPTER 2: THE ESSENCE OF DEVELOPER EXPERIENCECHAPTER 3: DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGECHAPTER 4: CRAFTING EXCEPTIONAL DOCUMENTATIONCHAPTER 5: STREAMLINING DEVELOPER TOOLINGCHAPTER 6: DESIGNING DEVELOPER-CENTRIC APISCHAPTER 7: PROVIDING STELLAR DEVELOPER SUPPORTCHAPTER 8: ENSURING PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY CHAPTER 9: MEASURING DEVELOPER EXPERIENCECHAPTER 10: REAL-WORLD IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIESCHAPTER 11: DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE CASE STUDIESCHAPTER 12: THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPER EXPERIENCECHAPTER 13: INTERVIEWS AND EXPERT INSIGHTS (unconfirmed)CHAPTER 14: CONCLUSION (unconfirmed)APPENDIX A: RESOURCES AND FURTHER READINGAPPENDIX B: TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES RECOMMENDATIONSAPPENDIX C: TEMPLATES AND CHECKLISTSAPPENDIX D: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS)
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Apress Improving Operating Leverage Using Hyperautomation
Book Synopsis1 Enterprise Operating Model.- Chapter 2: Non-interest cost management.- Chapter: 3 Enterprise Process Automation, TDABC.- Chapter 4: Operating Leverage.- Chapter 5: Improving Operating Leverage.- Chapter 6: Operating Leverage Bank of the Future.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Mastering the TOGAF Standard
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Apress Data as a Product Driver
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Apress Building an Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Business AI
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Independently Published How to Start a Cleaning Business: Creating a
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Bloomsbury Academic Feeding the World
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Callisto Publishing Gen Z Money Moves
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Leading with Significance: How to Create a
Book SynopsisCan a magnetic culture elevate you to unparalleled performance? ! And your journey to a magnetic culture starts by recognizing that good culture simply isn’t enough to drive top performance. With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are re-evaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. People are searching for teams with purpose, a compelling vision, and a sense of belonging where they can pursue their full potential and live their lives to the fullest. In Leading with Significance, Joey Havens breaks through the limiting barriers of common culture theory and shows, with great transparency, the real human emotions that elevate a culture to one that is genuine, enduring, and magnetic. Joey shares insights, failures, low points, lessons learned, and growth from his experience of helping lead the successful transformation of HORNE LLP’s good culture to a magnetic, people-first culture based on the Christian principles of caring and service. Whether you are inspired by exponential growth, the power of inclusion, or attracting and retaining outstanding people, this book will inspire you to choose a journey toward significance.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Bright Moves: How U.S. Utility Innovation Is
Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at how utilities are driving clean energy innovation. With Bright Moves, expert utilities consultant Tom Flaherty examines the past, present, and future of innovation in the utilities industry. He explores the complexities of what it truly means to innovate, considers the past and current disruptors necessitating such innovation, and discusses the role of research and development in how utilities must approach operations in the present and future. The book includes detailed profiles of today’s top innovators to illustrate: • What types of challenges utilities face today • How successful innovation requires intentional and consequential actions • How utilities are rapidly evolving toward broader and more innovative thinking • Why more commercialization is the way forward for the utilities sector These innovators pave exemplary pathways for start-ups and long-established companies alike as they navigate the cleantech transition and other developments. Bright Moves is for innovators in all fields—but especially those utilities and innovation professionals and executives who are driven to succeed in a demanding and quickly changing global economy.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Reframing Rich
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Super Woman Wealth
Book SynopsisSuper Woman Wealth is a guide to empower professional women to take an active role in their finances. It addresses women's unique relationships with money and offers practical advice on becoming more comfortable with financial planning and management.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC The Employee Experience Revolution
Book SynopsisEvery business out there is interested in earning profits. But sometimes the bottom line is not the best indicator of a company's long-term health. In the wake of the Great Resignation, companies are scrambling to hold on to both employees and profits. It turns out that one answer is the key to both.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Inside Live Events
Book SynopsisThe ultimate resource for learning how to design, plan, build, and manage extraordinary events!Inside Live Events lifts the curtain on how to create successful large events--such as trade shows, conferences, expositions, and business meetings.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away with It
Book SynopsisA manager?s guide to those unavoidable uncomfortable discussions Delivering bad news is never easy, but there are ways to do it that minimize the pain for everyone involved. How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away with It shows business managers how to navigate these inevitable tough conversations using the best possible approaches. Drawing from software executive Mahesh Guruswamy?s personal experience, this practical guide walks you through delivering bad news to employees, stakeholders, customers, and even bosses. With humor and grace, it covers, among many other topics: ? How to talk to an employee about an improvement plan ? How to tell a client a project is delayed ? How to give your boss less-than-glowing feedback ? How to admit that you have to break a promise Although there are many books on the inspirational side of leadership and how to lead effectively in general, few tackle the less-fun but critical topic of having the unpopular but necessary conversations all managers must have, making this book essential for any leader?s library.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Lead Exponentially
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Greenleaf Book Group Press Wisdom from the Wild for Youth
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Your Money Has Feelings
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Greenleaf Book Group Press The Bravery Effect
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Greenleaf Book Group Press SelfMade Maverick
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Greenleaf Book Group Press Honing the Human Edge
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Maxwell Leadership Firm Feedback in a Fragile World
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Maxwell Leadership From Drift to Drive
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Simon And Schuster Group USA Invest Like A Billionaire
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Information Age Publishing Socio-Economic Approach to Management Treatise: Theory and Practices
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Information Age Publishing Introduction to Research in Leadership
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Research in Leadership examines the process and skills required for effectively conducting research on the concept of leadership. Its authors employ a microscope for close analysis and build balconies to see trends and gain perspective. Designed to be imminently practical, it employs concrete examples of fictional graduate students, faculty, and professionals struggling with their own issues to help readers make sense of the world of research and all of its complexities. Filled with personal anecdotes, stories, and even a touch of humor and sarcasm, each chapter weaves in relevant concepts so that those beginning the process of producing scholarship can get started on a productive path and with a positive attitude.This introductory textbook reviews the core philosophies employed in creating new knowledge within a field of research. It describes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, as well as several concepts that are common across these. The text concludes with chapters focused on critical scholarship in leadership and creating habits that lead to a lifetime of learning.
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Information Age Publishing Compassionate Leadership for School Improvement
Book SynopsisCompassionate Leadership for School Improvement and Renewal aims to equip educational leaders with the knowledge, skills, and learning experiences necessary to approach their work from an intentional stance of compassion. Schools serve as both sites and sources of suffering; yet compassionate leadership can facilitate healing for students, educators, and community members. The moment is right to move the field toward a compassion-centered approach to leadership. In recent years, people around the world have experienced unfathomable loss and suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, persistent inequities and subsequent social justice protests, war and violence, and catastrophic natural disasters. These events created perpetual anxiety, stress, fear, uncertainty, loss, and grief for millions of people--including educators. Now perhaps more than ever, people need to give and receive compassion. The purpose of the volume is to build educational leaders' capacity to demonstrate compassion, foster collective compassion within their schools and districts, establish organizational environments in which compassion is routinely given and received, and, subsequently, transform schools into sites of healing. Ultimately, through the unique contributions of each chapter, this volume offers a path toward school improvement that is both renewing and sustaining.Trade Review“As a former school counselor and school administrator, my view about compassionate leadership is one grounded in relational practice. This may be obvious to some, but unfortunately lost on many. This thoughtful volume edited by Kara Lasater and Kristina LaVenia explores a desperately needed reformulation of school leadership for our times. Compassionate leadership takes enormous courage because it works against much of the institutional ethos that forms and frames the role, thinking, and behaviors of those ostensibly charged to both manage and lead schools.” - William C. Frick, University of Oklahoma“The education system is in its most challenging period in decades, perhaps in the past century. The need now is to address student, staff and organizational suffering. Lasater and LaVenia et. al., offer antidotes in this volume by providing up to date research, theory and insight to cultivate, conceptualize and practice compassionate educational leadership. For those who teach and lead with their heart, this book is essential reading.” - Joseph A. Polizzi, Sacred Heart University“In an increasingly challenging educational landscape, leaders find themselves facing teacher shortages, student trauma, and learning loss. Schools could easily become institutions rife with secondary trauma and burned out professionals operating in stark contrast to the unifying motivations that drew each of us into this profession. This volume reminds us that among the many skill sets leaders must employ, organizational and leader compassion fulfills a fundamental human need and unlocks a means by which schools can transform from professional survival to the joyful work of changing lives for the better.” - Joshua Ray, Greenwood Public Schools
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Information Age Publishing National Defense Budgeting and Financial
Book SynopsisBudgeting for national defense is a complex endeavor, particularly for a nation like the U.S. that assumes global responsibility and strives to have the most advanced and lethal force on earth. It is necessary – and challenging – to balance the myriad requirements between current and future readiness, across warfare areas and military services, between having state of the art capability with sufficient capacity, and among people, hardware, and the activities people do with that hardware. As analytically difficult as that problem is, it is embedded in the political budgeting processes and national security must be balanced with every other function of government and there must also be cooperation across branches of government.This text explores that complex endeavor. It takes the position that budgeting for defense is a particular instance of public budgeting which is a particular instance of public policy. Thus, this text starts with a conceptual, empirical, and process foundation before discussing the participants and processes that build the annual defense budget. It then covers the execution of that budget and the ultimate accounting.Compared to the first edition, this text is updated with current figures and examples. There is a new chapter on determinants of military spending in society and burden sharing within alliances. The chapter on budget execution has been disaggregated and a new chapter is devoted to fiscal law. The final chapter seeks to integrate all that came before it by discussing matters that integrate the stages of budgeting and which cross branches of government. Following in the tradition of the first edition, this is intended to be both a textbook for a course in budgeting, but also a desktop reference for defense budgeting practitioners.
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PM PR Mutiny in the Mountains
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PM PR Out of the Lab Into the Street
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Advantage Media Group Dare to Disrupt
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Advantage Media Group Invaluably Different
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Advantage Media Group The Treasure You Seek
Book SynopsisLeadership, Harvard Business School professor Archie L. Jones, Jr. explains, is not about title or status, but about influence and impact. Leadership capital consists of the resources you have that can empower you to work with others to achieve your goal.In The Treasure You Seek, Archie L. Jones, Jr. shares his lessons in leadershipfocused on the notion of leadership capital and the 5 Cs (capability, culture, communication, connection, and confidence). Each of the 5 Cs is a tool for readers to develop and deploy leadership capital in order to achieve whatever success means to themtheir treasure. In treating each of the 5 Cs, he lays out his own experience and walks the reader though the building blocks of developing and then leveraging that C.This book is for aspiring entrepreneurswhich, to Archie L. Jones, Jr., just means someone with a dream, whether to start a business and build an empire, start a nonprofit to change the world, or simply to be upwardly mobile and change one's own life. This book is not just for leaders in a narrow sense, but is for those looking to advance in their lives or careers, to take their game to the next level, as well as for coaches who are working with people in this position. Jones' messages have resonated with corporate leaders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and students at many levels across the world.
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Advantage Media Group Status Quo Is Not Company Policy
Book SynopsisIn the rapidly evolving energy sector, one electric cooperative in Texas is flipping the script on conventional wisdom. Status Quo is Not Company Policy: Empowering Innovation through Adaptive Leadership is a thought-provoking journey into the heart of an organization that dares to defy traditional industry norms.Within these pages, readers will discover how Rayburn Electric Cooperative has transcended its humble beginnings to challenge norms in the power industry. It demonstrates the impactful fusion of adaptive leadership with a commitment to innovation. With a relentless commitment to its core values of Integrity, Respect, Excellence, and Innovation, Rayburn is challenging the energy sector''s established practices and showcasing what''s possible when an organization fully commits to its people and principles.Key Takeaways: Innovative Leadership: Learn how a culture of questioning and a willingness to defy the status quo can lead to groundbreaki
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Advantage Media Group The Consultants Compass
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered about the enigmatic world of consultancy and whether it might be the right fit for you? If the title ''consultant'' has ever piqued your curiosity, then this book is your passport into that realm. Drawing from firsthand experience, the author takes us on a journey from initial skepticism to eventual admiration for consultants. With a memorable encounter as the pivot, she recalls an old colleague''s dismissive description of consultants: They ask you for your watch and then tell you the time. Yet, her personal experience was vastly different. She met a consultant who was insightful, engaged, and who connected the dots in a way that seemed effortlessly brilliant.So, what is a consultant? This book delves into the various shades of consultancy, busting myths and reshaping perceptions. While traditional definitions, like Schein''s 2016 explanation, depict consultants as mere distant experts, the book advocates a more modern and relevant perspective: Consult
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Advantage Media Group Life Is Long
Book SynopsisIn Life Is Long, Cherie Soyoung Pae Kloss challenges the notion that life is short and that we are bound by the career choices we make in our twenties. Contrary to popular belief, life isn''t short: it''s long. Too long to be stuck in a predictable, challenge-free rut. Too long to feel trapped by your own success. There''s no reason for the career choices you made in your twenties to dictate what you do ten, twenty, or thirty years later.Kloss, a successful entrepreneur and former CEO who has reinvented herself multiple times across diverse industries, shares her insights and experiences to guide readers through the process of career reinvention. Drawing from her own journey as a social worker, teacher, anesthetist, TV producer, and tech entrepreneur, Kloss presents a practical and actionable manual for women who yearn for something more but don''t know where to begin.Life Is Long is filled with optimism and encouragement, empowering readers to embrace change and explore new passions. Kloss breaks down the reinvention process into four phases: Discovery, Preparation, Education, and Achievement. She provides strategies for overcoming fears, building confidence, and navigating the challenges that come with career transitions.Through personal anecdotes and wisdom gained from her unconventional path, Kloss demonstrates that life is big, interesting, and complex, with an infinite capacity for change. She invites readers to step out of their comfort zones, break free from routines, and embark on a journey of personal and professional growth.Life Is Long is not just a book; it''s a guidebook for those ready to embrace the joys of developing new interests, following new passions, and renewing themselves. Kloss''s message is clear: you have the power to reinvent yourself and create a life that is fulfilling, exciting, and true to who you are, no matter your age or background.
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Advantage Media Group The Soccer of Success
Book SynopsisSoccer is more than the world's favorite sport. It's more than the beautiful game. It's a guide to successful living, at least if you know what you're looking for. Ciaran McArdle has spent been an avid soccer fan his entire life. He's even built his entire career around it: founding multiple soccer-based businesses. Over the years, he's discovered all the life and business lessons you can learn from the game. Every successful player and every great team follow the same strategies:They plan how to achieve their goals. They perform in every game. They recover and review their progress. And they build a team around the right principles. Within each of these strategies, there are dozens of lessons you can implement in your lifesuch as how to organize your time, how to ensure focus on the tasks that really matter, and how to use failure to your advantage. Ciaran has assembled all these ideas and brought them together in The Soccer of Success. For anyone who loves the game and wants more out of their life and career, this is the way to do it.
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Advantage Media Group, Inc. The Innovation Edge
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Advantage Media Group, Inc. How the Rich Get Richer
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Advantage Media Group Undoing Urgency
Book SynopsisIf you're ready to break free from the grip of urgency and start living a life of purpose, Undoing Urgency is your essential guide to set you free from the bondage of busyness and urgent living, giving you the freedom to focus on what really matters in life.
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Advantage Media Group The AI Ecosystems Revolution
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Advantage Media Group No One Alone
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Advantage Media Group The Detour CEO
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Advantage Media Group Think Bigger Lead Better
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Advantage Media Group Deep Future
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Permuted Press The Secret of Directional Investing
Book SynopsisTo know the trend, spot the trend, or shape the trend is to make money.The trend is your friend—investors know that. But the biggest money comes from the biggest events. The more delta, the more alpha.In that spirit, The Secret of Directional Investing offers a new way of thinking about investing, steeped in culture and history. Focusing on megatrends, this book points out ways to profit from an understanding of two kinds of trends: those that can be spotted, and those that can be shaped. There’s money in both. The Romans weren’t kidding when they said, Audentes Fortuna luvat—Fortune favors the bold. The Secret of Directional Investing is a bold look at investments and potential investments.
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Post Hill Press The Setback Cycle
Book SynopsisForbes contributor Amy Shoenthal’s revolutionary strategies for working through life’s inevitable setbacks, supported by research and personal stories from today’s most prolific founders, leaders, and experts. How do you know if you’re going through a setback? And once you realise you’re in one, how do you work through it? Some of the world’s most prominent leaders attribute their setbacks to the reason they found success. Their lowest moments paved the way for their creative rebirth. Through the four phases of The Setback Cycle—Establish, Embrace, Explore, and Emerge—Amy Shoenthal guides readers on how to make sense of their experiences, gain clarity on what comes next, and move confidently into future endeavours. That framework, developed through research and conversations with scholars, psychologists, neuroscientists, and executive coaches is supported through the deeply personal stories of founders and l
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