Waltzing with Bears
Title | Waltzing with Bears PDF eBook |
Author | Tom DeMarco |
Publisher | Pearson Education |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Computer software |
ISBN | 0133492052 |
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2003). If There's No Risk On Your Next Project, Don't Do It. Greater risk brings greater reward, especially in software development. A company that runs away from risk will soon find itself lagging behind its more adventurous competition. By ignoring the threat of negative outcomes-in the name of positive thinking or a can-do attitude-software managers drive their organizations into the ground. In Waltzing with Bears, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister-the best-selling authors of Peopleware-show readers how to identify and embrace worthwhile risks. Developers are then set free to push the limits. The authors present the benefits of risk management, including that it makes aggressive risk-taking possible, protects management from getting blindsided, provides minimum-cost downside protection, reveals invisible transfers of responsibility, isolates the failure of a subproject. Readers are armed with strategies for confronting the most common risks that software projects face: schedule flaws, requirements inflation, turnover, specification breakdown, and under-performance. Waltzing with Bears will help you mitigate the risks-before they turn into project-killing problems. Risks are out there-and they should be there-but there is a way to manage them.
Waltzing with Bears Book 1
Title | Waltzing with Bears Book 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Baum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Uncle Walter's Friends is the first in a series. The books are intended for children ages 5 to 10. In all the books, thenarrator is Sylvia. She lives with her family (her Dad, her Mom, her Uncle Walter) in their big house in the Maine woods.The books describe her adventures with Uncle Walter and the musical bears who are his friends.
Dusty Locks and the Three Bears
Title | Dusty Locks and the Three Bears PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Lowell |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2004-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780805075342 |
A Western-style retelling of the traditional tale about a little girl who finds the house of bear family and makes herself at home.
Berlioz the Bear
Title | Berlioz the Bear PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Brett |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1996-10-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0698113993 |
A "Reading Rainbow" Feature Title Zum, zum, buzz.... zum, zum, buzz... What's that strange buzz coming from the double bass? Berlioz has no time to investigate, because he and his bear orchestra are due at the gala ball in the village square at eight. But Berlioz is so worried about his buzzing bass that he steers the mule and his bandwagon full of magicians into a hole in the road and gets stuck. Time is running out, and if a rooster, a cat, a billy goat, a plow horse, and an ox can't rescue the bandwagon, who can? As the suspense mounts, intricate borders reveal the village animals making their way to the square one by one. When the clock chimes eight, the animals, ready to dance, have filled the square-but there's no sign of Berlioz. Jan Brett's glorious illustrations invite the eye to linger over exquisite details and humorous nuances that enhance the story. This delightful cumulative tale is one that will be looked at again and again.
Constant Reader
Title | Constant Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Parker |
Publisher | McNally Editions |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-11-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781961341258 |
Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing. When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rubric “Constant Reader,” she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written. Parker’s hot takes have lost none of their heat, whether she’s taking aim at the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson (“She can go on like that for hours. Can, hell—does”), praising Hemingway’s latest collection (“He discards detail with magnificent lavishness”), or dissenting from the Tao of Pooh (“And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up”). Introduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, Constant Reader gathers the complete weekly New Yorker reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post
Bear and Bunny
Title | Bear and Bunny PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Manus Pinkwater |
Publisher | Candlewick Press (MA) |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0763671533 |
Best friends Bear and Bunny wander through the woods looking for food, singing songs, and talking about what kind of pet they might like to adopt.
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
Title | Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies PDF eBook |
Author | Tom DeMarco |
Publisher | Addison-Wesley |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2013-07-15 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0133492273 |
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2008). Adrenaline junkies, dead fish, project sluts, true believers, Lewis and Clark, template zombies . . . Most developers, testers, and managers on IT projects are pretty good at recognizing patterns of behavior and gut-level hunches, as in, “I sense that this project is headed for disaster.” But it has always been more difficult to transform these patterns and hunches into a usable form, something a team can debate, refine, and use. Until now. In Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies, the six principal consultants of The Atlantic Systems Guild present the patterns of behavior they most often observe at the dozens of IT firms they transform each year, around the world. The result is a quick-read guide to identifying nearly ninety typical scenarios, drawing on a combined one-hundred-and-fifty years of project management experience. Project by project, you’ll improve the accuracy of your hunches and your ability to act on them. The patterns are presented in an easy-reference format, with names designed to ease communication with your teammates. In just a few words, you can describe what’s happening on your project. Citing the patterns of behavior can help you quickly move those above and below you to the next step on your project. You’ll find classic patterns such as these: News Improvement Management by Mood Ring Piling On Rattle Yer Dags Natural Authority Food++ Fridge Door and more than eighty more! Not every pattern will be evident in your organization, and not every pattern is necessarily good or bad. However, you’ll find many patterns that will apply to your current and future assignments, even in the most ambiguous circumstances. When you assess your situation and follow your next hunch, you'll have the collective wisdom of six world-class consultants at your side.