This book covers the human and organizational dimension of the software improvement process and software project management - whether based on the CMM or ISO 9000 or the Rational Unified Process.

Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development

Computers & Technology

Harrison, Neil

Coplien, James

Programming

Pearson

Learn from real voices and experiences.Learning and Teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education, third edition, helps pre-service teachers prepare themselves for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in urban, remote and rural primary and secondary schools. It also prepares teachers to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in their programming. The overall aim of this text is to 'keep things local' as working closely with the local community is absolutely crucial to successful teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. This book balances educational theory with practical teaching strategies. It is full of case studies, examples and a range of voices and personal stories from students, pre-service teachers, indigenous community members to convey the richness and diversity of Australian classrooms. KEY LEARNING FEATURESLearning from Experience feature includes real life cases from teachers working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students&nbsp;Questions and Activities feature at the end of chapter for readers to test their comprehension and discuss issues with other pre-service teachers.Video references link to a range of online resources, encouraging students to recognise the diversity of approaches to learningThe use of Country as the fundamental concept in the Australian Curriculum for learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.&nbsp;Each chapter begins with an overview, list of topics covered to prepare the readers for the key learning goals of each chapter.&nbsp;Inclusion of content on how to build empowering partnerships between schools and communities in chapter 9 to help pre-service teachers become a part of local communities.&nbsp;Full colour design to help with navigation and learning. NEW TO THIS EDITIONNew author Juanita Sellwood brings an important Torres Strait Islander perspective to the text.&nbsp;&nbsp;An increased focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education in urban areas, including case studies outlining what teachers are doing in the classroomVideo references link to a range of online resources, encouraging students to further explore the issues under discussion.More focus on secondary student's needs, issues and subject areas,&nbsp;&nbsp;including case studies outlining what teachers are doing in the classroomA new section on the role of first language in learning in chapter 8.Clear explanation of language and terms (chapter 2) to use when talking about or with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to inform and prepare preservice teachers for the classroom and community.New chapter on the Creative Arts and Science Education for secondary schools (chapter 10)New Chapter on racism in schools&nbsp;&nbsp;(chapter 1)New Chapter on the Stolen Generations (chapter 3)New chapter on Schools developing partnerships with the community by Gina MilgateThoroughly revised and updated chapter 4 on Strategies for teaching both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studentsRevised chapter on Classroom ManagementRevised chapter on Teaching reading and writing with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

Learning and Teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Education

Politics & Social Sciences

Sellwood, Juanita

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Teaching and Learning in Aboriginal Education, 2e, helps pre-service teachers prepare themselves for the challenges and joys of teaching Aboriginal students in urban, remote and rural primary and secondary schools. The book balances the practical, the personal and the theoretical to convey the richness of diversity that is found within Australian classrooms.

Teaching and Learning in Aboriginal Education, 2nd Edition

Sociology

Design patterns have moved into the mainstream of commercial software development as a highly effective means of improving the efficiency and quality of software engineering, system design, and development. Patterns capture many of the best practices of software design, making them available to all software engineers. The fourth volume in a series of books documenting patterns for professional software developers, Pattern Languages of Program Design 4 represents the current and state-of-the-art practices in the patterns community. The 29 chapters of this book were each presented at recent PLoP conferences and have been explored and enhanced by leading experts in attendance. Representing the best of the conferences, these patterns provide effective, tested, and versatile software design solutions for solving real-world problems in a variety of domains. This book covers a wide range of topics, with patterns in the areas of object-oriented infrastructure, programming strategies, temporal patterns, security, domain-oriented patterns, human-computer interaction, reviewing, and software management.Among them, you will find: *The Role object *Proactor *C++ idioms *Architectural patterns for security *Reports *Composing multimedia artifacts *Customer interaction As patterns evolve beyond the realm of research into the world of practical software development, more and more developers are discovering that reusable design patterns (such as those contained in this volume) can help them achieve faster, more cost-effective delivery of their applications. 0201433044B04062001

Pattern Languages of Program Design 4 (Software Patterns Series)

Rohnert, Hans

Foote, Brian

Addison-Wesley

Sustainable Capitalism and the Pursuit of Well-Being (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development)

Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century yet it is poorly understood. It is commonly thought of as conservation of the natural systems that human society depends on. Capitalism is the problem because it feeds our self-interest so governments must regulate our behavior to prevent us consuming nature. This book shows that there is a more enjoyable path to sustainable development. What is missing in most discussions of sustainable development is the task of improving human lives. It is commonly presumed that this means increasing national income. Yet research has shown that in the rich countries the relationship between income and happiness is weak, that consumption does not make us happy, and that occasional bouts of happiness do not add up to an enjoyable life. The rich are only marginally happier than the middle-classes because we all have been trained by modern capitalism to seek happiness through excessive consumption on a happiness treadmill. Only constant fixes of more and more 'stuff' can make us happy and then only temporarily; we always need more. And the perpetual pursuit of - and constant failure to find - happiness through working and spending is consuming the planet. So we are told we must be forced to consume better or less to sustain development.Because human systems are complex and unpredictable, governments cannot do this. They cannot solve much simpler social problems and prevent recessions and depressions, eradicate hunger or poverty, guarantee employment or affordable health care, or ensure peace and security. Using theories of complex adaptive systems developed from the natural sciences, this book explains why sustainable development - increasing human enjoyment while conserving the environment - cannot be created by governments from the top-down. Sustainability is not just another policy problem; it is a matter of changing the social paradigm from the bottom up.  For this everyone needs to learn the most valuable lesson of capitalism: to seek their personal self-interest, what is good for them. But this is not the self-interest that you indulge in the mall with shopping therapy. Positive psychology has shown that a truly enjoyable life comes from the pursuit of well-being that is a complete engagement with life by developing as far as possible our personal talents and abilities. Our psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are laid waste by 'getting and spending' in a competitive society. And an enjoyable life needs less consumption. Two questions remain. First, how might it be possible to teach people how to find true enjoyment in the pursuit of well-being? This book shows how this might emerge with a social marketing campaign that uses progressive commitments within small social groups to enforce positive deviances from normal patterns of consumption. We can begin to learn how to manage our lives for enjoyment rather than accumulation by gaining financial management skills, avoiding most debts, and knowing the difference between needs - that we must have - and the unnecessary wants that marketers try to make us indulge.If these lessons were well learned and people consumed much less as they enjoyed their lives in the pursuit of well-being, what would become of modern capitalism that thrives on constant economic growth driven by consumerism? Would it collapse into a permanent depression of falling demand and deflation? Because society is a complex system, no prediction is reliable and chaotic changes may always intrude. However, this book argues that if business and government react intelligently to the public's changing demands, capitalism may be sustained but in a modified form. Capitalism could continue and sustain development if most of us pursued our personal well-being.

Reference

Routledge

Biological Psychology (Critical Thinking in Psychology Series)

This accessible introductory text addresses the core knowledge domain of biological psychology, with focused coverage of the central concepts, research and debates in this key area. Biological Psychology outlines the importance and purpose of the biological approach and contextualises it with other perspectives in psychology, emphasizing the interaction between biology and the environment. Learning features including case studies, review questions and assignments are provided to aid students′ understanding and promote a critical approach. Extended critical thinking and skill-builder activities develop the reader′s higher-level academic skills.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Brewer, Gayle

Lyons, Minna

Robinson, Sarita

Sanders, Robert L.

Psychology & Counseling

Learning Matters

Neil Harrison has created some of the finest poems to come out of Nebraska. His voice is insistent, his images precise and the sensibility behind the poems is generous and smart. No one since Don Welch has done the short poem so perfectly. These are poems to mark the passage of time, to note change and to ask what remains constant.

In a River of Wind

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Bridge Burner's Publishing

Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century. How can human civilization continue to develop without destroying the natural systems on which it depends?Environmentalists tell us that capitalism is the problem because it feeds our self-interest. They tell us that we have to restrain ourselves and only consume what the Earth can sustain. Or governments must tell us what we can and cannot buy. This book uses the science of complex systems to explain why governments cannot deliver sustainability or happiness and how self-interest can be used to make society sustainable. Capitalism won the Cold War; until the Great Recession of 2008, it seemed to be the perfect system. But more of us are unhappy even as it has ravaged the planet. The central problem is the paradigm on which our social systems are founded that more (consumption, production, possessions) is always better. Based on research from political economy, philosophy, and psychology, this book shows that the problem is not self-interest. We are unhappy because we have been taught that our interests are material and that buying 'stuff' will make us happy. Yet, social pressure to consume only prevents us from satisfying our basic psychological needs and fully enjoying life. For that we need to pursue our personal well-being. Because this also reduces our material consumption, environmental sustainability comes from each of us knowing what's truly good for our selves. Even without the constant economic growth that harms the planet and damages our lives, capitalism also is sustainable. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of sustainability;civil societyactivists and social entrepreneurs; thought leaders and policymakers. .

Gain insights and depth of rationale into Scrum from many highly respected world authorities, including one of its founders, who lead you through the deep foundations of Scrum's structure and practice. Enhance and customize your Scrum practice with ninety-four organizational building blocks, called patterns, that you can freely and flexibly choose from to fit your needs. Understand and appreciate the history of Scrum and the role it plays in solving common problems in product development. Building a successful product usually involves teams of people, and many choose the Scrum approach to aid in creating products that deliver the highest possible value. Implementing Scrum gives teams a collection of powerful ideas they can assemble to fit their needs and meet their goals. The ninety-four patterns contained within are elaborated nuggets of insight into Scrum's building blocks, how they work, and how to use them. They offer novices a roadmap for starting from scratch, yet they help intermediate practitioners fine-tune or fortify their Scrum implementations. Experienced practitioners can use the patterns and supporting explanations to get a better understanding of how the parts of Scrum complement each other to solve common problems in product development. The patterns are written in the well-known Alexandrian form, whose roots in architecture and design have enjoyed broad application in the software world. The form organizes each pattern so you can navigate directly to organizational design tradeoffs or jump to the solution or rationale that makes the solution work. The patterns flow together naturally through the context sections at their beginning and end. Learn everything you need to know to master and implement Scrum one step at a time - the agile way.

A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game

Business & Money

Coplien, James O.

Sutherland, Jeff

den Hollander, Mark

Ramos, Cesário

Vervloed, Esther

Harada, Kiro

Yoder, Joseph

Kim, June

O'Callaghan, Alan

Beedle, Mike

Bjørnvig, Gertrude

Friis, Dina

Reijonen, Ville

Benefield, Gabrielle

Østergaard, Jens

Eloranta, Veli-Pekka

Leonard, Evan

Aguiar, Ademar

Management & Leadership

Pragmatic Bookshelf

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