Attracting IT Graduates to Your Business

An Coppens

Impackt Publishing

Motivate Your Team in 30 Days

Business & Money

Urichuck, Bob

Urichuck, Dave

Business Culture

Transform your IT project and make change stick with this step-by-step guide. In today's fast-paced world of change, companies expect you to do more, with less. Drawing on over a decade of Change Management experience as a consultant with Fortune 500 companies including IBM and NCR, Emily Carr shares the secrets to making change happen smoothly. If your company is like most, the number one reason that projects have failed over the years don't have to do with technology. They have to do with people. People didn't like the new technology. People weren't trained properly on the change. People hadn't received adequate communications and didn't understand the change. Sound familiar? Project teams rarely forget to work on the technology, but they often forget to work with the people, and no matter how amazing your new technology is, it's useless unless people use it efficiently. This book will help you focus on the people. Packed with templates, checklists, and real-life examples, this user-friendly guide will provide you with the insights and guidance of an expert consultant, for a fraction of the price. You'll follow a clearly laid out path from Change Management novice to confident and prepared change manager. You'll be introduced to the Five Pillars of Change: Sponsorship, Stakeholder Management, Communication, Training, and Organization Design. You will work step-by-step through templates in each pillar to build and run a comprehensive Change Management plan tailor-made to your project and organization.

Practical Change Management for It Projects

CARR, Emily

Management & Leadership

Implement the world's most powerful improvement methodology in 30 days About This BookPlan and manage a successful Lean Six Sigma implementationDevelop solutions to problems that undermine quality and inhibit efficiencyGet to grips with the world's most powerful improvement methodologyWho This Book Is ForThis book is for anyone motivated and driven by the desire to create improvements within their team or wider business. In Detail Implement the world's most powerful improvement Methodology in 30 DaysLean and Six Sigma are two of the most important developments to come out of management theory. On their own they offer clear strategies for improving efficiency and controlling quality; together they are an even more formidable prospect, providing organizations with a strategy that can bring in improvements in both, a task which can sometimes be a real challenge. Gopal Ranjan and Tanmay Vora, experienced in the fields of quality management and passionate about helping organizations drive improvement, present a clear strategy for implementing lean six sigma, giving you both the knowledge and the tools to drive improvement successfully.Implementing Lean Six Sigma structures the implementation process over a month, and gives you clear guidance on what to do and when. Beginning with the theoretical basics of Six Sigma, it then takes you through the various stages of a Lean Six Sigma improvement program, from defining and analyzing issues with efficiency and quality, to taking the steps that can get your organization the results it needs. Practical, knowledgeable and accessible, this guide will make Lean Six Sigma your improvement methodology of choiceHow can we improve? This is one of the most fundamental, but challenging, questions an organization can ask itself. It is never easy, but the ability to drive significant change that can bring positive results is immensely important for a business that wants to be successful in a rapidly growing market. Lean Six Sigma offers a way of answering this question, combining the approaches of both Lean and Six Sigma in a way that offers an opportunity for exponential improvement in a way that is manageable, flexible and sustainable. Spanning a month's implementation process, this book will take you on a Lean Six Sigma journey, where you will gain a clear understanding of the fundamental principles, and develop a clear perspective of the process as it unfolds. From defining the problems to be tackled, to their measurement and analysis, this book leads you towards the stage of innovation where you can take steps that ensure and sustain improvements.

Implementing Lean Six Sigma in 30 Days

Vora, Tanmay

Ranjan, Gopal

Essential Meetings Blueprints for Managers

Lauby, Sharlyn

Modern and efficient organization that delivers results Key Features <ul> <li>Find out how Kanban fits into the broader context of Agile, and get to grips with the core components of its philosophy</li> <li>Identify problems and challenges in your current processes and take immediate steps to drive improvement</li> <li>Structured as a 30 day action plan, this book is an accessible and rapid guide to one of the leading Agile methodologies</li> </ul> Book Description Kanban is a simple and elegant Agile framework that helps to control and improve development processes. Originating in traditional 20th century manufacturing in Japan, Kanban has a renewed relevance today, being a crucial methodology in the world of software development. This book explores the key features of Kanban, and demonstrates how to put it into practice through exercises that will help you make the most of this unique approach to managing collaboration and production. Designed as a 30 day action plan, this book will help you understand and implement Kanban - and start seeing results - in a month. Analyze your current situation and define your goals and wider strategic aims, and begin developing a plan to help you and your team confidently work towards achieving them. Involve your team to drive cultural change, learn how to prioritize and organize tasks and projects to efficiently use your time and resources. Create your own value stream map to better understand your processes and identify improvement areas, and adapt and use the features tips and examples to overcome challenges you may face when implementing Kanban. Pick up this book and experience the full results of this vital Agile methodology - fast. What you will learn <ul> <li>Learn the fundamentals of Agile and Kanban</li> <li>Analyze your current processes and identify areas of improvement</li> <li>Develop a Kanban board to manage your projects by using and adapting the featured examples</li> <li>Develop a coherent strategy for collaboration</li> <li>Improve your processes with tips and tricks to promote efficiency</li> <li>Follow each step in this 30 day plan to ensure a smooth Kanban implementation</li> </ul>

Kanban Development in 30 Days: Modern and efficient organization that delivers results

Björkholm, Tomas

Björkholm, Jannika

Integrating CRM across your Organization for Business success

Computers & Technology

Blackmore, Andrew

Internet & Social Media

A detailed guide to self-employment for software and web developers - from identifying your target market, through to managing your time, finances, and client behavior About This Book Discover how to make money with software development skills. Learn how to develop a marketing and sales strategy and develop profitable pricing strategies for your software services and products Gain insights through real case studies and insights provided from industry experts Who This Book Is For Going the self employed route in software development offers many opportunities to develop awareness and skills to enhance your career. Whether you are a student currently studying software development or a veteran software developer already in the industry, Going IT Alone provides you with insights you need to avoid the pitfalls of self employment and to succeed with software projects that are profitable and sustainable. What You Will Learn Identify and understand your target market. Propose the value of what your service or product offers. Build a business model that identifies key entities required to make your software business work. Develop marketing a marketing strategy that targets the right customer segments and produces the sales you need to be profitable. Analyze information to make better decisions and understand your business performance. Understand people through observation and use this to your advantage in project management and negotiation. Improve accuracy of estimates for time and costs of your software projects. Understand the relationship between code and the business strategy. Identify software features from a business perspective, allowing you to prioritise must have features from those that are less important to your profitability. Avoid the trap of increasing software development time and costs from features that provide no benefit or sales increase. In Detail No matter whether you are a student or an industry

Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers

Brown, Leon

Design, develop, and publish your own mobile apps for iOS and Android using C# and Xamarin Studio About This Book <ul>
<li>Explore the exciting features of Xamarin Studio while learning to develop your own applications</li> <li>Develop a complete application from conceptualization through to publishing it on the app store</li> <li>The book walks you through the basics of cross-platform development with Xamarin using examples and best practices and tips for cross platform solutions.</li> </ul> Who This Book Is For If you want to develop your own applications and want to explore the features of Xamarin Studio, then this is the book for you. It is expected that you have a basic understanding of technologies in mobile development, but prior knowledge of Xamarin is not required. What You Will Learn <ul>
<li>Understand the software development lifecycle for mobile applications</li> <li>Use Xamarin Studio and its wide range of features to write your programs in C#</li> <li>Use different options to create multi-platform applications using Xamarin and develop a cross-platform extension method</li> <li>Work with Xamarin forms and various UI controls</li> <li>Integrate synchronous and asynchronous communication module within your app</li> <li>Render images to work with Android and iOS</li> <li>Link a third-party application to your solution </li> </ul> In Detail The mobile app market is increasing exponentially every year. Xamarin Studio with its modern and powerful IDEs makes creating applications a lot easier by simplifying the development process. Xamarin will allow you and your team to create native applications by taking advantage of one of the most evolved programming language in the world: C#. This book will provide you with the basic skills you need to start developing mobile apps using C# and Xamarin. By working through the examples in each chapter, you will gain hands-on experience of creating a complete app that is fully functional by all means. Finally, you will learn to publish the app you created on the app market. Each project in this book will take you one step closer to becoming a professional app developer. Style and approach The step-by-guide will walk you through the process of creating an application of with the help of small projects that will teach you everything you need to know to build a complete application of your own.

Xamarin 4 By Example

Polat, Engin

Bortolu, Matteo

Networking & Cloud Computing

Learn how to create mobile and full-stack web applications in JavaScript by getting a deeper insight into MeteorAbout This Book<ul>
<li>This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to build fast, complex web applications</li>
<li>Over 65 hands-on recipes help you build and deploy elegant web applications</li>
<li>Optimize your web application for production use</li>
</ul>Who This Book Is ForIf you are a web developer who is familiar with Meteor and has basic knowledge of web development, and you now want to explore new paradigms of single-page, real-time applications, this course is perfectly suited for you.What You Will Learn<ul>
<li>Secure your site with Meteor best practices</li>
<li>Create reactive templates that update themselves when data changes</li>
<li>Add routing to a single-page application and make it appear like a real website</li>
<li>Make your own Meteor packages and see how to make them public</li>
<li>Rapidly build robust, responsive user interfaces</li>
<li>Publish your own reusable custom packages</li>
<li>Optimize your site for load speed with advanced publishers and subscribers</li>
<li>Master the intricacies of front-end development using Jeet, Bootstrap, CSS animations, and more</li>
<li>Leverage the aggregation framework to produce results with big data</li>
<li>Optimize your site for search engine visibility</li>
</ul>In DetailMeteor is best JavaScript development platform and is packed with collections of libraries and packages bound together in a tidy way to take care of everything from development to production, making your web development easier.
This course follows a learning path divided into three modules. Each module is a mini course in its own right, taking your knowledge to a new level as you progress. The first module takes you from the installation of Meteor to building a fully working web blog (including back end) to create and edit posts. Your path will begin with the basic concepts and folder structure of a Meteor project, learning how Meteor templates work to test packages, and seeing the application itself.
The second module is a cookbook that starts with simple recipes designed for quick reference, and culminating advanced recipes that walk you through building and deploying a complete application. The cookbook covers all the major areas of Meteor development, including lesser-known and undocumented features too.
With all the important concepts covered in the previous modules, the third module will get you equipped with simple solutions to boost your development skills. You'll learn about mapping of real-world data and optimizing it, how to optimize and secure web applications and how to deploy and maintain it without breaking its features. Throughout the module, you will put your skills into practice and build an online shop from scratch.
This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:
<ul>
<li>Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor, Fabian Vogelsteller</li>
<li>Meteor Cookbook, Isaac Strack</li>
<li>Meteor Design Patterns, Marcelo Reyna</li>
</ul>Style and approachThis practical handbook has a step-by-step approach to help you improve your developer skills and efficiently built web applications using Meteor.

Meteor: Full-Stack Web Application Development

Strack, Isaac

Vogelsteller, Fabian

Reyna, Marcelo

Web Development & Design

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