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Stand Back and Deliver

Accelerating Business Transformation

By: Pollyanna Pixton,Niel Nickolaisen,Todd Little,Kent J. McDonald

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Stand Back and Deliver

Accelerating Business Transformation

By: Pollyanna Pixton,Niel Nickolaisen,Todd Little,Kent J. McDonald

Enhance Fundamental Value and Establish Competitive Advantage with Leadership Agility Whether you’re leading an organization, a team, or a project, Stand Back and Deliver gives you the agile leadership tools you’ll need to achieve breakthrough levels of performance. This book brings together immediately usable frameworks and step-by-step processes that help you focus all your efforts where they matter most: delivering business value and building competitive advantage. You’ll first discover how to use the authors’ Purpose Alignment Model to make better up-front decisions about where to invest limited resources—and how to filter out activities that don’t drive market leadership. Next, you’ll learn how to collaborate in new ways that unleash your organization’s full talents for innovation. The authors offer the Context Leadership Model for understanding the unique challenges of any project, and they help you tailor your leadership approach to address them. You’ll find a full chapter on organizing information to promote more effective, value-driven decision-making. Finally, drawing on decades of experience working with great leaders, the authors focus on a critical issue you’ll face over and over again: knowing when to step up and lead, and when to stand back and let your team produce results. Coverage includes Effectively evaluating, planning, and implementing large system projects Reducing resistance to process improvements Bringing greater agility to the way you manage products, portfolios, and projects Identifying the tasks that don’t create enough value to be worth your time Developing the forms of collaboration that are crucial to sustaining innovation Mitigating project risks more effectively—especially those associated with complexity and uncertainty Refocusing all decision-making on delivering value to the organization and the marketplace Making decisions at the right time to leverage the best information without stifling progress

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Pearson Education

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0321617088

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Beyond Requirements

Analysis with an Agile Mindset

By: Kent J. McDonald

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Beyond Requirements

Analysis with an Agile Mindset

By: Kent J. McDonald

Satisfy Stakeholders by Solving the Right Problems, in the Right Ways In Beyond Requirements, Kent J. McDonald shows how applying analysis techniques with an agile mindset can radically transform analysis from merely “gathering and documenting requirements” to an important activity teams use to build shared understanding. First, McDonald discusses the unique agile mindset, reviews the key principles underlying it, and shows how these principles link to effective analysis. Next, he puts these principles to work in four wide-ranging and thought-provoking case studies. Finally, he drills down on a full set of techniques for effective agile analysis, using examples to show how, why, and when they work. McDonald’s strategies will teach you how to understand stakeholders’ needs, identify the best solution for satisfying those needs, and build a shared understanding of your solution that persists throughout the product lifecycle. He also demonstrates how to iterate your analysis, taking advantage of what you learn throughout development, testing, and deployment so that you can continuously adapt, refine, and improve. Whether you’re an analysis practitioner or you perform analysis tasks as a developer, manager, or tester, McDonald’s techniques will help your team consistently find and deliver better solutions. Coverage includes Core concepts for analysis: needs/ solutions, outcome/output, discovery/delivery Adapting Lean Startup ideas for IT projects: customer delivery, build–measure–learn, and metrics Structuring decisions, recognizing differences between options and commitments, and overcoming cognitive biases Focusing on value: feature injection, minimum viable products, and minimum marketable features Understanding how analysis flows alongside your project’s lifecycle Analyzing users: mapping stakeholders, gauging commitment, and creating personas Understanding context: performing strategy (enterprise) analysis Clarifying needs: applying decision filters, assessing project opportunities, stating problems Investigating solutions: impact and story mapping, collaborative modeling, and acceptance criteria definition Kent J. McDonald uncovers better ways of delivering value. His experience includes work in business analysis, strategic planning, project management, and product development in the financial services, health insurance, performance marketing, human services, nonprofit, and automotive industries. He has a BS in industrial engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from Kent State University. He is coauthor of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility (Addison-Wesley, 2009).

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0133039854

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9780133039856

How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

By: Kent J McDonald

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How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

By: Kent J McDonald

Agile business analysis is not about frameworks and prescriptions. Agile business analysis is about applying business analysis techniques in an agile manner so that your team solves the right problems with the right solutions. How To Be An Agile Business Analyst shows you how.

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1087882605

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9781087882604

Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart

By: Joakim Sundnes,Glenn Terje Lines,Xing Cai,Bjørn Frederik Nielsen,Kent-Andre Mardal,Aslak Tveito

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Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart

By: Joakim Sundnes,Glenn Terje Lines,Xing Cai,Bjørn Frederik Nielsen,Kent-Andre Mardal,Aslak Tveito

This book describes mathematical models and numerical techniques for simulating the electrical activity in the heart. It gives an introduction to the most important models, followed by a detailed description of numerical techniques. Particular focus is on efficient numerical methods for large scale simulations on both scalar and parallel computers. The results presented in the book will be of particular interest to researchers in bioengineering and computational biology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540334378

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Measuring Voice, Speech, and Swallowing in the Clinic and Laboratory

By: Christy L. Ludlow,Raymond D. Kent,Lincoln C. Gray

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Measuring Voice, Speech, and Swallowing in the Clinic and Laboratory

By: Christy L. Ludlow,Raymond D. Kent,Lincoln C. Gray

Measuring Voice, Speech, and Swallowing in the Clinic and Laboratory provides a definitive reference and text for methods of measurement of voice, speech, and swallowing functioning and disorders. It was developed for measurement courses in speech-language pathology graduate and doctoral programs and is also an essential reference for practitioners or anyone who needs to make quantitative assessments of the systems involved. The goal of this text is to provide basic information on the instruments and measures commonly used for assessing and treating persons with disorders of voice, speech, and swallowing for clinical practice, research studies, and conducting clinical trials. New developments in electrical and magnetic stimulation for noninvasive stimulation of nerves, muscles, and the brain are provided for augmenting treatment benefits for persons with voice, speech, and swallowing disorders. Other new techniques included are electromyography, articulography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional MRI, fNIRS, DTI, and transcranial direct current stimulation for treatment applications. The text includes methods for recording and analyzing speech, acoustics, imaging and kinematics of vocal tract motion, air pressure, airflow, respiration, clinical evaluation of voice and swallowing disorders, and functional and structural neuroimaging. Many of the methods are applicable for use in clinical practice and clinical research. Key Features: More than 250 full-color imagesSummary tables to guide selection of instruments and measures for various applicationsEach chapter begins and ends with an overview and conclusion for review of contentAppendices of measurement standards Clinical investigators and clinicians wanting to measure voice, speech, and swallowing functions for clinical documentation will benefit from this book, as will students and professors. Measuring Voice, Speech, and Swallowing in the Clinic and Laboratorypulls together the necessary information on methods of measurement from different disciplines and sources into one convenient resource. Information on measurement in the fields of voice, speech, and swallowing is now readily available for training doctoral students and guidance of clinicians incorporating instrumental assessment into their practice.

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Plural Publishing

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1635500885

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Beyond Requirements

Analysis with an Agile Mindset

By: Kent J. McDonald

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Analysis with an Agile Mindset

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Stand Back and Deliver

Stand Back and Deliver

Beyond Requirements

Beyond Requirements

How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart

Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart

Measuring Voice, Speech, and Swallowing in the Clinic and Laboratory

Measuring Voice, Speech, and Swallowing in the Clinic and Laboratory

Beyond Requirements

Beyond Requirements

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