Scrum for Teams: A Guide by Practical Example

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Scrum is an agile framework for completing complex projects. This book gives examples, tools, and tricks to do Scrum well. For each trick it is explained why it helps. The practices themselves may be worth trying, but by understanding why it works the readers will be able to come up with their own ideas that work better in their organization and situation.
All the practical examples in this book have helped someone, some where to become a part of a better Scrum team. Scrum’s motto is: “Inspect and Adapt”; change small things one at a time and see what works. Scrum is not done by project leaders or managers, but really by the teams— to succeed in an organization, the teams must do Scrum well. If the teams do Scrum well, the whole organization will benefit from it.
Scrum helps a team self-organize, which fits in well with developers, who usually don’t like to be micromanaged. At the same time, Scrum can scale: Self-organized teams work together well, and one manager doesn’t have to manage all the people.
The lessons from this book help Scrum teams develop into autonomous, proud, and independent teams. Often teams fail to become powerful enough to change the organization, so they cannot perform to their full potential. A good team can lead the stakeholders into trusting them. They will then make plans based on the team’s release planning instead of making roadmaps out of thin air, and thus make the organization much more predictable.

Startup Strategy Humor: Democratizing Startup Strategy

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Startup Humor is a great primer for start-ups. —Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, Founder of HCL, recipient of the Padma Bhushan award
Startup Humor is a must for those willing to take the plunge. —Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Hero Corporate Services & Jt. MD, Hero MotoCorp Ltd. President, AIMA & Former Chairman, CII.C
This is an extremely smart book. It’s well-structured and truly gives the reader valuable insights. —Mr. Praveen Sinha, Angel Investor and Founder of ventures like Jabong, Aquabrim, Anasha Art.
Startup Strategy Humor: Democratizing Startup Strategy brings a fresh, innovative, and a bit funny perspective to the subject by using a cartoon, conversation and story format to explain startup strategy concepts in a user friendly, easy to understand, and application oriented way. It democratizes startup strategy and takes it to the masses. This book is an excellent read for anyone interested in startups or entrepreneurship. It is widely appreciated both by academicians and industry professionals including many founders.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship

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Sustainability has become a multidimensional concept that extends beyond environmental protection to economic development and social equity—in other words, entrepreneurship guided and measured by the three pillars of the “triple bottom line”. Sustainable entrepreneurship is the continuing commitment by businesses to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce, their families, the local and global community, as well as future generations.
This book traces the foundations for sustainable entrepreneurship, beginning with sustainability, ecopreneurship, and social entrepreneurship. The text continues with a review of the basic principles of sustainable entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs can integrate sustainability into their business models. This book will be an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs looking to build a new venture based on the principles of sustainability from the outset. In addition, it can be used by academics teaching sustainable entrepreneurship, a topic of surging interest to students, and by professionals working with sustainable businesses.

Entrepreneurship

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A number of different methods have been used to describe growth-oriented entrepreneurship; however, there is a consensus that there is a particularly desirable form of entrepreneurship that seeks to create and scale up businesses that will drive productivity growth, create new employment, increase innovation, promote business internationalization, and achieve sustainable economic growth.
This book provides an extensive introduction to research on growth-oriented entrepreneurship and continues with an assessment of attempts to create the appropriate frame- work conditions for growth-oriented entrepreneurship to flourish, including financial support; government policies and programs; education and training; and more. The final chapter looks at growth- oriented entrepreneurs in practice as they work to launch and grow emerging companies. This book is a unique compendium of research and analysis on an important segment of entrepreneurship, which will be useful to entrepreneurs, academics, and policymakers.

Founders

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A founder is a person who assists in the formation of a new business and then continues to devote a significant amount of time and resources to the operation of business once it has been formed, often becoming one of the officers and directors–founders play a pivotal role in the success of any new business.
This book delves into the motivational traits of prospective entrepreneurs, the role that entrepreneurs play in launching new businesses, the pre-formation duties and liabilities of founders, and their relationships and agreements with other members of the founding group. The book also examines the role that founders have on the organizational culture of their firms. This book is a must-have guide for anyone thinking about launching a new business, for attorneys and other professionals providing advice to their clients, and academics teaching entrepreneurship classes.

Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurship

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A number of different methods have been used to describe growth-oriented entrepreneurship; however, there is a con- sensus that there is a particularly desirable form of entrepre- neurship that seeks to create and scale up businesses that will drive productivity growth, create new employment, increase innovation, promote business internationalization, and achieve sustainable economic growth.
This book provides an extensive introduction to research on growth-oriented entrepreneurship and continues with an assessment of attempts to create the appropriate frame- work conditions for growth-oriented entrepreneurship to flourish, including financial support; government policies and programs; education and training; and more. The final chapter looks at growth- oriented entrepreneurs in practice as they work to launch and grow emerging companies. This book is a unique compendium of research and analysis on an important segment of entrepreneurship, which will be useful to entrepreneurs, academics, and policymakers.

Creating a Successful Consulting Practice

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Most people develop specific skills through education, training and experience. A lot of those people have a desire to market those skills to those who need them. Starting a consulting practice is often a gratifying and fulfilling means of taking those sought after skills to market.
Starting a consulting practice allows an individual to work for individuals and companies that are likely to value the skills and experience offered. Theoretically, the individual is in control of the work hours and the types of jobs that are accepted. As one might suspect, as consultants gain clients and grow their companies, the control of the consulting company’s time and resources must be managed carefully.
To start a consulting company in a way that has the greatest chance to succeed over the long term requires attention to building the practice one project at a time. Each project should be subjected to a process that will have the best chance of yielding a successful outcome.
The purpose of this book is to take the reader through each step of building a consulting practice by understanding how to acquire and execute a consulting project. By creating successful projects, a consultant can build a reputation, acquire more projects and create a successful consulting practice.”

The Tax Aspects of Acquiring a Business, Second Edition

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The Tax Aspects of Acquiring a Business is a guide writ- ten to the tax considerations that must be weighed when acquiring an existing business, whether the business is conducted as a proprietorship, partner- ship, limited liability company, S corporation, or a C corporation. The book looks at the transactions from the point of view of the seller as well as the buyer. This symmetrical view is presented because the tax effects on the seller will influence the acceptable terms for the deal.
The book describes the tax consideration in quantifiable terms by demonstrating the actual calculations that must be made to evaluate the after-tax consequences of the terms of an acquisition agreement. The changes in the law that were made by the 2017 Tax Act are incorporated in the book.

T-Shaped Professionals : Adaptive Innovators

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“The purpose of this book is to provide both academic and industry perspectives on T-shaped talent as a framework to develop the next generation workforce. This book will include a number of chapters from the authors of this book (Y. Moghaddam, H. Demirkan and J. Spohrer), and edited chapters from a number of additional experts who have been working on next generation of workers.

The ISSIP BEP T-Summit collection aims to offer insights and practical wisdom easily applicable to the workplace. The context in which service is designed, delivered and experienced has been changing fundamentally. With exponentially growing and evolving technology-enabled, service transformations and innovations (e.g. IBM, Rolls-Royce, Amazon, Google, Lego, Disney, Tesco, iTunes, Uber, Smart Phones, Etsy, AirBnB, eBay).

With this project, we envision to capture the latest thinking, experiences and results, and to publish a collection of practical, focused, easily digestible short papers in the increasingly important area of T-shape talent development, which integrates a variety of disciplines – including areas in engineering, social sciences and management – to focus education, research and practice on an expanding innovation economy.”

Business Analytics: A Data-Driven Decision Making Approach for Business, Volume I

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Business Analytics: A Data-Driven Decision Making Approach for Business—Part I provides an overview of business analytics (BA), business intelligence (BI), and the role and importance of these in the modern business decision-making. The book discusses all these areas along with three main analytics categories: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics with their tools and applications in business.

This volume focuses on descriptive analytics that involves the use of descriptive and visual or graphical methods, numerical methods, as well as data analysis tools, big data applications, and the use of data dashboards to understand business performance.

The highlights of this volume are:

  • Business analytics at a glance
  • Business intelligence (BI), data analytics
  • Data, data types, descriptive analytics
  • Data visualization tools
  • Data visualization with big data
  • Descriptive analytics—numerical methods
  • Case analysis with computer applications

Click Here to download the additional material including statistical concepts for regression, computer instructions to run the models using Excel and MINITAB software, and all of the data files.