Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Workflow | Book Series

Overview:

In this book, Dominica DeGrandis, an IT time management expert reveals the real crime of the century time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.

Through this book, DeGrandis discusses some simple solutions that make work visible, helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. The book is a chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization.

The book fully displays Dominica’s deep experience in coaching companies, as  she walks the reader through a series of exercises to find waste and eliminate it, and how to catch the”time thieves” in the act.  Dominica DeGrandis shows us how we can make hidden work-in-process visible, to clearly see the effect it has on our ability to get things done. This book in-depths into the hidden aspects of WIP that steal our time, energy, and productivity, along with strategies for combating each of them.

Authors:

Dominica Degrandis

Published In:

2017

The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations | Book Series

Overview:

This book is authored by Mario E. Moreira, Vice President of Client Engagement and Client Principal-Agile at Emergn Limited. In this book you will discover how to implement and operate in an Agile manner at every level of your enterprise and at every point from idea to delivery. Learn how Agile-mature organizations adapt nimbly to micro-changes in market conditions. Learn cutting-edge practices and concepts as you extend your implementation of Agile through the entire enterprise to meet customer needs. In this book, the veteran Agile coach Mario Moreira argues that two critical conditions must be conscientiously cultivated at a company before it can expect to reap in full measure the business benefits of mature Agile.

This book is For Executives and senior management; sponsors of Agile within a company; ScrumMasters and Agile coaches, champions, and consultants; project management and quality assurance officers (PMOs and AMOs); portfolio managers; product managers and product owners; marketing and business managers; functional, middle, and resource managers; engineering heads and managers; cross-functional engineering/scrum teams; and entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Authors:

Mario E. Moreira

Published In:

2017