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The Scrumban [R]Evolution | Book Series

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Overview:

Comprehensive, coherent, and practical, The Scrumban [R]Evolution will help you incrementally apply proven Lean/Agile principles to get what matters most: pragmatic, bottom-line results. Pioneering Scrumban coach Ajay Reddy clarifies Scrumban’s core concepts and principles, and illuminates their application through real-life examples. He takes you from the absolute basics through sustainable adoption, and from choosing metrics to advanced forecasting and adaptive management.

Whatever your role in the organization, this essential guide liberates you to tailor Kanban systems based on your unique challenges–and to solve delivery problems and improvement stagnation you haven’t been able to solve with Scrum alone.

  • Discover how Scrumban can help you reignite stalled Agile initiatives
  • Clarify crucial relationships between purpose, values, and performance
  • Quickly develop shared understanding in and across teams
  • Use Scrumban to better manage Product Owner/Customer expectations
  • Improve the rollout of Scrum in any team using Scrumban
  • Use Scrumban and let real improvements spread with least resistance
  • Use the right metrics to gain insight, track progress, and improve forecasting
  • Take advantage of Scrumban’s advanced capabilities as you gain experience
  • Develop leaders to successfully guide your Agile initiatives
  • Integrate modeling to reliably refine your forecasting and decision-making

Author:  

Ajay Reddy

Published In:

19 July 2015

When Genius Failed | Book Series

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Overview:

Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along with two Nobel prize winners and a floor of Wall Street’s brightest and best, Long-Term Captial Management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge funds: a discreet private investment club limited to those rich enough to pony up millions.

It became the banks’ own favourite fund and from its inception achieved a run of dizzyingly spectacular returns. New investors barged each other aside to get their investment money into LTCM’s hands. But as competitors began to mimic Meriweather’s fund, he altered strategy to maintain the fund’s performance, leveraging capital with credit on a scale not fully understood and never seen before.

When the markets in Indonesia, South America and Russia crashed in 1998 LCTM’s investments crashed with them and mountainous debts accumulated. The fund was in melt-down, and threatening to bring down into its trillion-dollar black hole a host of financial instiutions from New York to Switzerland. It’s a tale of vivid characters, over wheening ambition, and perilous drama told, in Roger Lowenstein’s hands, with brilliant style and panache.

Author:  

Roger Lowenstein

Published In:

30 January 2014