Software Leadership

Erle Dardick believes the multi-unit restaurant industry is leaving billions of dollars on the table. So he outlined a clear solution for food businesses struggling to stay afloat or to grow during the recession in his new book, Get Catering and Grow Sales! A Strategic Perspective for the Multi-Unit Restaurant Executive. Dardick, the CEO of MonkeyMedia Software, a food industry consulting and software company, has helped his firm's clients grow their revenue by embracing a catering strategy.

Imagine how fast your company could grow when you finally learn how to condense the work in your software development processes with a method that offers your team and customers full satisfaction and freedom and one that gives you results in the shortest time possible. Say good-bye to poor product quality, less control, poor customer and team satisfaction, and achieve a faster ROI in software development with Scrum!

Dave Tucker is a veteran of 26 years in the green industry. In this book, he combines his own knowledge and experience with that of his network of over 12,000 lawn companies to reveal one of the "biggest keys of success" in the green industry - piecework.

Projects fail. Some say 40 percent of all IT projects fail, some say 70 percent. And it has been that way for years. Each project fails for its own reasons but they all share one thing in common: the project model. Could it be the project model itself which creates failure? In this tour de force Allan Kelly explains why the project model is a poor fit for managing software development.

In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating "before scrum" and "after scrum". Scrum is that groundbreaking. It already drives most of the world's top technology companies. And now it's starting to spread to every domain where people wrestle with complex projects.

Scrum has been practiced more regularly in the past few years. It's important to learn more about it and understand what you're doing. Have you heard about it before? Are you curious about what scrum and agile are all about? Do you want to know all the specifics about this emerging, trendy phenomenon? Then this is the book you'll need. It's short but powerful, and it teaches you all the basics you need to understand. So let's not waste any time and begin right now!

In today’s world, the most popular means of developing software is through the agile methodologies. The agile processes are widely used among several IT enterprises, as they offer the firms a competitive advantage in the market.

How is your Scrum going? Scrum provides you a framework but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically implement Scrum.