The Concise Executive Guide to Agile | Book Series

Overview: As we see, many people mistake Agile, being the only thing an engineering team does, and this book breaks that myth and belief.  This book explains why this thinking can only limit your success when adopting Agile, and how to anticipate the changes that come your way. The Concise Executive Guide to Agile is also helpful for those who have already started with Agile and make them thoroughly incorporate Agile in corporate culture. It gives you the confidence to flexibly navigate the hurdles inherent in selling and succeeding with Agile in your business: i.e. existing methodologies, outsourcing, diverse geographies, resistance to change, and the rest.

Authors:

Israel Gat

Published In:

2010

Agile Data Science: Building Data Analytics Applications with Hadoop | Book Series

Overview:

Are you sure about your, self-built models and applications? With this handcrafted book, you will learn the flexible tools and practices to build effective analytics application using Hadoop.

You will gain hands-on experience on how to use the lightweight tools such as Python, Pig, Apache and D3.js Library. Through this book, your team will learn how to create an environment of exploring data, and start with an example of mining your own inboxes.  This book will teach you an iterative approach, that enables you to quickly have a grip on your analysis you’re doing, mostly inclined to what the data is telling. You’ll learn that an iterative approach that enables you to quickly change the kind of analysis you’re doing, depending on what the data is telling you. You will also learn some samples of code that are available in Heroku apps.

Authors:

Russell Jurney

Published In:

2013