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Screw the Valley: Kansas City Edition
by Timothy SprinkleIt's time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Kansas City. In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Kansas City, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups. With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocates, Screw the Valley: Kansas City Edition gives readers a glimpse into the startup potential of the "City of Fountains" and the unique resources it has to offer. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.
Screw the Valley: New York City Edition
by Timothy SprinkleIt's time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: New York City. In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights New York, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups. With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocates, Screw the Valley: New York City Edition gives readers a glimpse into the startup potential of The Big Apple and the unique resources it has to offer. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.
Screw the Valley: Las Vegas Edition
by Timothy SprinkleIt's time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Las Vegas. In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Las Vegas, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups. With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocates, Screw the Valley: Las Vegas Edition gives readers a glimpse into the startup potential of "Sin City" and the unique resources it has to offer. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.
Screw the Valley: Austin Edition
by Timothy SprinkleIt's time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Autsin. In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Austin, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups. With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocates, Screw the Valley: Austin Edition gives readers a glimpse into the startup potential of the Texas capital and the unique resources it has to offer. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.
Screw the Valley: Detroit Edition
by Timothy SprinkleIt's time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Detroit. In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Detroit, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups. With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocates, Screw the Valley: Detroit Edition gives readers a glimpse into the startup potential of "Motor City" and the unique resources it has to offer. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.
Screw the Valley: Boulder Edition
by Timothy SprinkleIt's time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Boulder. In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Boulder, one of seven cities that offers superior landscapes for tech startups. With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocates, Screw the Valley: Boulder Edition gives readers a glimpse into the startup potential of this city by the mountains and the unique resources it has to offer. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.
Screw Work Break Free: How to launch your own money-making idea in 30 days
by John WilliamsLet John Williams teach you how to get up and running with a money-making idea you love in just 30 days - even if you haven't yet found your killer concept. Drawing on the latest methods of famous creatives and billion-dollar startups you'll discover* 3 steps to find a money-making idea to run with* The instant procrastination fix* 11 ways to make money out of any idea* How to make your idea go viral* Secrets you can use from multi-million dollar launchesCase studies and stories will keep you motivated and simple confidence hacks will help you get yourself out there. You'll get access to the Break Free Toolkit online, connect with other readers on social media, and launch your idea in as little as 20 minutes a day. Welcome to the idea age!
Screw Work, Let's Play: How To Do What You Love and Get Paid For It
by John WilliamsScrew Work, Lets Play will show readers why they will have far greater success, happiness and wealth from playing all day. You're tired of being stuck between boring work that pays and fun stuff that doesn't. You want to be able to do whatever is most fun and exciting for you from day to day, to learn new stuff, to be creative, to express yourself and to do something you actually care about. You want to get paid simply for being you. Screw Work, Lets Play, will show readers why the most successful people in the world do exactly that, just think, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet all became billionaires by having fun, and they can too starting right now. This book will help readers discover what they enjoy the most and what playing all day looks like for them. It gives life changing strategies to transform their working lives and reveals the huge variety of ways to get paid and play, not only ensuring more fun, but helping them to increase the amount of money they make.
Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class—And What We Can Do about It
by Thom HartmannHartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy, but rather, the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunately, he maintains, the American middle class is on its deathbed.
Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change
by Rickey Gard DiamondThe personal is not only political, it&’s also economic and sexual: as a society, we&’re encouraged to view economics as objective science far removed from us—when in reality it has concrete and far-reaching effects on our everyday lives. In Screwnomics, Rickey Gard Diamond shares personal stories, cartoons, and easy-to-understand economic definitions in her quest to explain the unspoken assumptions of 300 years of EconoMansplaining—the economic theory that women should always work for less, or better for free. It unpacks economic definitions, turns a men-only history on its head, and highlights female experiences and solutions. encouraging female readers to think about their own economic memoir and confront our system&’s hyper-masculine identity. In the past fifty years, the US has witnessed a major shift in economic theory, and yet few women can identify or talk about its influence in their own lives. Accessible and inspiring, Screwnomics offers female readers hope for a better, more inclusive future—and the tools to make that hope a reality.
Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
by Gabriella LukácsIn Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, Gabriella Lukcs analyzes the development of a new primetime serial called "trendy drama" as the Japanese television industry's ingenious response to market fragmentation. Much like the HBO hit Sex and the City, trendy dramas feature well-heeled young sophisticates enjoying consumer-oriented lifestyles while managing their unruly love lives. Integrating a political-economic analysis of television production with reception research, Lukcs suggests that the trendy drama marked a shift in the Japanese television industry from offering story-driven entertainment to producing lifestyle-oriented programming. She interprets the new televisual preoccupation with consumer trends not as a sign of the medium's downfall, but as a savvy strategy to appeal to viewers who increasingly demand entertainment that feels more personal than mass-produced fare. After all, what the producers of trendy dramas realized in the late 1980s was that taste and lifestyle were sources of identification that could be manipulated to satisfy mass and niche demands more easily than could conventional marketing criteria such as generation or gender. Lukcs argues that by capitalizing on the semantic fluidity of the notion of lifestyle, commercial television networks were capable of uniting viewers into new affective alliances that, in turn, helped them bury anxieties over changing class relations in the wake of the prolonged economic recession.
Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible
by Ellen F. DavisThis book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography, social structures, and religious thought of ancient Israel. This approach consistently brings out neglected aspects of texts, both poetry and prose, that are central to Jewish and Christian traditions. Rather than seeking solutions from the past, Davis creates a conversation between ancient texts and contemporary agrarian writers; thus she provides a fresh perspective from which to view the destructive practices and assumptions that now dominate the global food economy. The biblical exegesis is wide-ranging and sophisticated; the language is literate and accessible to a broad audience.
Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays
by Joel WaldfogelHow consumer spending during the holidays generates enormous amounts of economic wasteChristmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and . . . gift giving. Lots and lots—and lots—of gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But let's stop to consider the gifts we receive—the rooster sweater from Grandma or the singing fish from Uncle Mike. How many of us get gifts we like? How many of us give gifts not knowing what recipients want? Did your cousin really look excited about that jumping alarm clock? Lively and informed, Scroogenomics illustrates how our consumer spending generates vast amounts of economic waste—to the shocking tune of eighty-five billion dollars each winter. Economist Joel Waldfogel provides solid explanations to show us why it's time to stop the madness and think twice before buying gifts for the holidays.When we buy for ourselves, every dollar we spend produces at least a dollar in satisfaction, because we shop carefully and purchase items that are worth more than they cost. Gift giving is different. We make less-informed choices, max out on credit to buy gifts worth less than the money spent, and leave recipients less than satisfied, creating what Waldfogel calls "deadweight loss." Waldfogel indicates that this waste isn't confined to Americans—most major economies share in this orgy of wealth destruction. While recognizing the difficulties of altering current trends, Waldfogel offers viable gift-giving alternatives.By reprioritizing our gift-giving habits, Scroogenomics proves that we can still maintain the economy without gouging our wallets, and reclaim the true spirit of the holiday season.
The Scrub's Bible: How to Assist at Cataract and Corneal Surgery with a Primer on the Anatomy of the Human Eye and Self Assessment
by Richard S. Koplin David C. Ritterband Emily Schorr John A. Seedor Elaine WuThe second edition of The Scrub's Bible is a timely, comprehensive resource, which will include extensive chapter and content updates, along with 50 new images and drawings. Updated sections will delve into subjects of endothelial transplantation, as well as cataract surgery and new medical and technological developments: femtosecond lasers, innovations in premium lens implant technologies, optiwave refractive analysis, and combined glaucoma and cataract surgery. Additional extensive chapter updates in the surgical tray, self-assessment, and corneal transplantation will be described in great detail as well.Directed at the growing number of untutored personnel aspiring to enter the disciplines of ophthalmic technicianry and surgical assisting, The Scrub's Bible, 2nd edition remains a key entry level guide to understanding the human eye, its basic anatomy, and physiology. Absorbing this information serves as the foundation for the authors, who are all skilled and respected eye surgeons, educators, and surgery center owners, to draw the reader through the fundamentals of the two most common areas of ophthalmic surgery: cataract and corneal/refractive surgery. The Scrub's Bible 2nd edition will build upon the first edition--remaining an easy-to-read tool that is broken down into discreet and understandable elements, meant to avoid the intimidating rhetoric of a standard reference.
The Scrub's Bible
by Elaine I. Wu David C. Ritterband John A. Seedor Richard S. KoplinDirected at the growing number of untutored personnel aspiring to enter the disciplines of ophthalmic technicianry and surgical assisting, The Scrub's Bible represents an entry level guide to understanding the human eye, its basic anatomy, and physiology. Absorbing this information serves as the foundation for the authors, who are all skilled and respected eye surgeons, educators, and surgery center owners, to draw the reader through the fundamentals of the two most common areas of ophthalmic surgery: cataract and corneal/refractive surgery. The Scrub's Bible is a comprehensive yet easy-to-read tool that is broken down into discreet and understandable elements, meant to avoid the intimidating rhetoric of a standard reference.
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
by Jeff Sutherland J.J. SutherlandFor those who believe that there must be a more agile and efficient way for people to get things done, here is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the leadership and management process that is changing the way we live. In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating &“before Scrum&” and &“after Scrum.&” Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world&’s top technology companies. And now it&’s starting to spread to every domain where leaders wrestle with complex projects. If you&’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded, and there&’s no more lucid – or compelling – explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago. The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact. In this book you&’ll journey to Scrum&’s front lines where Jeff&’s system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores. Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines, Scrum is consistently riveting. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable – whether it be inventing a trailblazing technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for your family to thrive and prosper.
Scrum – Einführung in der Unternehmenspraxis
by Dominik MaximiniAgile Entwicklungsmethoden für Software - allen voran Scrum - sind auf dem Vormarsch und werden mittlerweile von der Mehrheit der Unternehmen eingesetzt. Leider werden bei den meisten Scrumeinführungen fundamentale Fehler gemacht, die dazu führen, dass die Prozesse versagen. Insbesondere die Grundregeln zur Organisationsentwicklung werden missachtet. Dieses Buch zeigt anhand einer theoretischen Einführung, Praxisbeispielen und einer Fallstudie, wie Scrum richtig eingeführt wird. Dabei wird sowohl auf unterschiedliche Zielzustände (Ist ein einzelnes Team oder die ganze Organisation betroffen?) als auch auf verschiedene Herangehensweisen (Bottom-Up/Top-Down) eingegangen. Diese zweite Auflage beschreibt außerdem, was die kulturellen Eigenschaften von Scrum sind und an welchen Stellen Sie einen Konflikt mit Ihrer aktuellen Unternehmenskultur erwarten sollten.
Scrum Basics: A Very Quick Guide to Agile Project Management
by Tycho PressThe Elements of Agile and Scrum in a Nutshell Whether you're new to agile software development or considering Scrum for general project management, Scrum Basics compiles all of the essentials into one handy little guide. Learn how agile teams use Scrum, with: A simple summary of agile project management basics like the Agile Manifesto and 12 Agile Principles A concise overview of Scrum roles, artifacts, and activities A well-organized breakdown of Scrum practices with helpful illustrations and advice A troubleshooting FAQ and 5 case studies to help you visualize Scrum in action
The Scrum Culture
by Dominik MaximiniThis book is a guide for managers, Scrum Masters and agile coaches who are interested in agile organizational methods and who are planning to introduce Scrum at their own company. Scrum is not only a product development framework but can also be used to structure activities for agile and lean organizational development. Divided into five major parts, the book first introduces and defines the Scrum Culture. It explains its relevance, highlights a number of pain points typical for first encounters with Scrum, and embeds it in an introduction to organizational change. This is complemented with many real-life examples that help to apply the concepts to readers' own specific contexts. The second part describes the principles of introducing Scrum in detail, while the third part embarks on the practical application of these principles, drawing on a wealth of experience gathered in many successful introduction projects. Part four focuses on a detailed case study of a Scrum transformation before part five provides, in closing, a number of appendices offering extensive information on Scrum and its principles.
The Scrum Culture: Introducing Agile Methods In Organizations (Management For Professionals)
by Dominik MaximiniThis book is a guide for managers, Scrum Masters and agile coaches who are interested in agile organizational methods and who are planning to introduce Scrum at their own company. Scrum is not only a product development framework but can also be used to structure activities for agile and lean organizational development.Divided into six major parts, the book first introduces and defines the Scrum Culture briefly. It explains its relevance, highlights a number of pain points typical for first encounters with Scrum, and embeds it in an introduction to organizational change. This is complemented with many real-life examples that help to apply the concepts to readers’ own specific contexts. The second part describes the principles of introducing Scrum in detail, while the third part embarks on the practical application of these principles, drawing on a wealth of experience gathered in many successful introduction projects. Part four focuses on a detailed case study of a Scrum transformation before part five provides the scientific background information and study details that led to the findings in part one. In closing, part six offers a number of appendices with extensive information on Scrum and its principles.The second edition of this book has been updated throughout and fundamentally re-organized for better readability.
The Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future
by J.J. SutherlandBased on years of work in the field with scores of companies including Bosch, 3M, Schlumberger, and Saab, The Scrum Fieldbook delivers a hands-on, practical approach for successfully implementing the Scrum framework in any domain. Scrum is the secret weapon behind some of today’s most successful companies. Giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple use Scrum to reshape our world through incredibly fast innovation, a laser focus on customers, and continuous improvement. In recent years, Scrum has helped companies large and small thrive in the age of disruption. Its use has exploded across the corporate world far beyond its software and technology roots. J.J. Sutherland and the team at Scrum Inc. have dramatically improved performance at global banks, utilities, medical device manufacturers, mining conglomerates, and labs on the cutting edge of genetic science. In The Scrum Fieldbook, JJ draws on his firm’s extensive experience to take leaders, managers, and employees deeper into the specific challenges and new opportunities of an Agile world. He shows how the Scrum framework can be successfully applied to any situation, in any industry, from automobile manufacturers in the US and Europe to nonprofits in Africa, from home renovation contractors in Minnesota to gas exploration companies in South America, from building fighter planes in Sweden to accelerating US Navy special forces teams in regions of the world we can’t mention.
Scrum For Dummies
by Mark C. Layton David MorrowUse scrum in all aspects of life Scrum is an agile project management framework that allows for flexibility and collaboration to be a part of your workflow. Primarily used by software developers, scrum can be used across many job functions and industries. Scrum can also be used in your personal life to help you plan for retirement, a trip, or even a wedding or other big event. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation on solving what might otherwise be an insurmountable challenge. Scrum For Dummies shows you how to assemble a scrum taskforce and use it to implement this popular Agile methodology to make projects in your professional and personal life run more smoothly—from start to finish. Discover what scrum offers project and product teams Integrate scrum into your agile project management strategy Plan your retirement or a family reunion using scrum Prioritize for releases with sprints No matter your career path or job title, the principles of scrum are designed to make your life easier. Why not give it a try?
Scrum For Dummies
by Mark C. Layton Steven J. Ostermiller Dean J. KynastonLearn how scrum can help in every part of your life Scrum—an organizing approach that exposes work progress and quality —is used all over the place in software development, but it&’s not just for coders. Scrum For Dummies shows you how scrum can improve performance regardless of your industry or project. You can even use scrum to get tangible results in your personal projects—prepare for retirement, organize travel, and much more. Plan goals, releases, and sprints for all aspects of business and life. With Dummies, you&’ll learn how to work flexibility and collaboration into anything you&’re doing. This book is packed with helpful information to empower you to set up your first scrum project, organize the scrum team, integrate scrum into your agile project management strategy, and just make things work better. Learn the ins and outs of scrum—updated for the 2020 scrum guide Discover how scrum can help you manage projects in any industry and even in your personal life Organize your scrum team and set up your first project Integrate scrum into your agile project management strategy This updated edition of Scrum For Dummies is written to make scrum useful for everyone—especially you.
Scrum for Sales: A B2B Guide to Agility in Organization, Performance, and Management (Future of Business and Finance)
by Michael J. SchermMany companies want to make their sales agile. Some of them have tried to set up agile sales organizations, but such top-down approaches and big-bang rollouts seldom seem to work. This book shows how the elements of the leading agile framework “Scrum” should be applied to install agility in the salesforce, improve sales performance, and resolve typical performance issues in sales organizations. It contains concrete guidelines, real-world examples, and useful tools to create the necessary change step by step and built to last.
Scrum für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Mark C. LaytonDas Schöne an Scrum ist, dass das Regelwerk so überschaubar ist. Es schafft nur so viel Struktur, dass Teams sich ganz und gar auf die Lösung der eigentlichen Herausforderung konzentrieren können und keine Zeit mit der Abarbeitung unnötiger und bereits überholter Prozesse verlieren. Das Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie ein Team zusammenstellen und diese beliebte agile Projektmanagementmethode implementieren, um Projekte reibungsloser zu gestalten und zwar vom Anfang bis zum Ende. Wenn Sie möchten auch in Ihrem Privatleben: Scrum wird Ihnen das Leben leichter machen. Warum probieren Sie es nicht einfach aus?