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Q&A on the Book Unlocking Agility
In the book Unlocking Agility, Jorgen Hesselberg explores how to embrace agility in large organizations and what can be done to remove impediments across the enterprise. It provides practical advice, resources and guidance with real-life examples of successes and failures from companies across a variety of industries.
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Q&A on the Book Reinventing Jobs
The book Reinventing Jobs by Ravin Jesuthasan and John W. Boudreau provides a framework to understand and optimize the increasingly rapid evolution of work and automation. The framework explores four steps: deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure; it can be used to bundle work into jobs and create optimal human-machine combinations.
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Author Q&A on the Book Business Analysis Agility
James and Suzanne Robertson have written a book titled Business Analysis Agility - Solve the Real Problem, Deliver Real Value. They address the fact that despite the adoption of agile approaches a lot of time, effort and money is wasted building the wrong product. They explore the challenges faced undertaking analysis in agile environments and address some of the common mistakes.
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Author Q&A on the Book Product Takeoff
In their book Product Liftoff Kamal and Nav explore through examples, stories and practical exercises what it takes to bring a new product from concept to launch, and beyond. They provide tools and techniques that teams and individuals can use to help guide product development and ensure they are solving the right problem, building the right product which addresses real customer needs.
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Author Q&A on the Book Simplify Work
In the book Simplify Work, Jesse W. Newton explores the challenges individuals and organisations face due to complexity in the workplace. He provides practical advice and concrete ideas to simplify our workplaces and personal lives in order to free up space for innovation and creativity
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Q&A on the Book Future Ethics
In the book Future Ethics, Cennydd Bowles explores the role ethics play in the tech industry and in the work of product managers, designers, and engineers. The book provides guidance on how to think and act ethically when designing products.
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Q&A on the Book Refactoring - Second Edition
The book Refactoring - Second Edition by Martin Fowler explores how you can improve the design and quality of your code in small steps, without changing external behavior. It consists of around seventy detailed descriptions of refactorings, including a motivation for doing them, the mechanics, and an example.
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The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part Two
As part of our core values of sharing knowledge, the InfoQ editors were keen to capture and share our book and article recommendations for 2018, so that others can benefit from this too. In this second part we are sharing the final batch of recommendations
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Book Review and Q&A: ASP.NET Core in Action by Andrew Lock
ASP.NET Core in Action by Andrew Lock, covers ASP.NET Core from the beginners start to an ending, with the fundamental knowledge to build web applications using this modern, highly available, highly scalable and cross-platform framework. If you are new to ASP.NET MVC programming, the book gives a good overview of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern as well as the legacy from the .NET Framework
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Q&A on the Book Driving Digital Strategy
The book Driving Digital Strategy by Sunil Gupta provides guidelines and advice for executing fundamental digital transformations in companies, based on lessons from digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. To be successful you have to fundamentally change the core of your business and ensure that your digital strategy touches all aspects of your organization, argued Gupta.
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Q&A on the Book “Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart”
Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart by John O’Duinn is a practical guide for people who work in distributed or dispersed teams. It details the business, social and personal benefits of distributed teams and provides suggestions for effective communication when physically distributed, coordinating work and handling complex interpersonal situations.
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Book Review: Solidity Programming Essentials
Ethereum is an emerging technology that promises the ability to disintermediate many traditional approaches to business through decentralized ledger technology, built upon open-source software. In this article, we will review a recent book based upon Solidity, a programming language used to construct smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.