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Leading the Digital Workforce: IT Leadership Peak Performance and Agility (Security, Audit and Leadership Series)
by Jeffrey W. BrownFuture IT leaders won't be technology leaders, they'll be business leaders who understand technology. Leading the Digital Workforce takes a fresh look at technology leadership, exploring how to lead and manage in today’s digital workplace where the pace of change is exponential. This book walks you through building personal resiliency and avoiding stress and burnout to creating a strategy, building a high-performance team, and examining how technology will change the workforce of the future. Technology leadership requires a unique set of skills, which is why traditional leadership approaches don't always work. This book provides actionable advice on how to create a culture of innovation while driving successful change initiatives. Leading the Digital Workforce provides strategies for empowering people, optimizing processes, and inspiring innovation. This book offers insights into managing change, leveraging technology, and building strong relationships within your organization, including how to understand and work with company culture. Finally, it shares strategies for using technology and innovation to create a competitive edge to unlock new opportunities. Leading the Digital Workforce is essential reading for IT leaders who want to develop their skills, stay ahead of the digital curve, and lead their organizations into the future. No matter if you’re a new IT leader, an aspiring one, or a seasoned leader who’s been at it for years, there’s something in this book that will help you level up your game.
Leading the Internal Audit Function (ISSN #1)
by Lynn FountainIn this book, the author presents lessons learned from her extensive experience as a CAE to help internal auditors understand the challenges, issues, and potential alternative solutions when executing the role. The book explains how to clarify management expectations for the internal audit and balance those expectations with the IIA Standards. It examines the concept of risk-based auditing and explains how to determine whether management and the internal audit team have the same objectives. It also looks at the internal auditor's role in corporate governance and fraud processes.
Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore's First CIO
by Alex SiowExplore the insights of a world-leading CIO as he expounds on the challenges faced by technology executives and how to overcome them As the pace of change in business continues to rapidly accelerate, Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers are often left with accountability for future-proofing their organizations. Renowned professor, executive, and author Alex Siow shows you how you can meet that challenge while managing the information overload that often accompanies these positions. In Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore’s First CIO, the author uses his expansive and impressive experience in academia and industry to lead you down a path to achieving success as a CIO or CTO. Filled with practical tips, case studies, and personal insights, the book discusses: The management of legacy information and telecommunications technology The information overload often suffered by technology executives How to motivate and mentor a workforce How to manage change effectively The fostering of innovation The future of money, work, and artificial intelligence Perfect for CIOs, CTOs, and the executives, managers, and employees who work with and for them, Leading with IT delivers an engaging and insightful exploration of what it takes to achieve astounding results at the intersection of technology and business.
Leading with Sound: Proactive Sound Practices in Video Game Development
by Rob BridgettLeading with Sound is the must-have companion guide to working on video game projects. Focused on the creative, collaborative, philosophical and organizational skills behind game sound and eschewing the technical, this book celebrates the subjects most essential to leading with sound in video game development at any level. Refuting the traditional optics of sound as a service in favour of sound as a pro-active visionary department, , this book examines each of the four food-groups of dialogue, sound design, music and mix, not through the usual technical and production lenses of ‘how’ and ‘when’, but the essential lens of ‘why’ that enables leadership with sound. Leading with Sound is essential reading for aspiring sound designers, inside and outside of the classroom, as well as experienced professionals in the game industry.
Leaflet.js Essentials
by Paul Crickard IIIIf you are a web developer working with geospatial concepts and mapping APIs, and you want to learn Leaflet to create mapping solutions, this book is for you. You need to have a basic knowledge of working with JavaScript and performing web application development.
League of Legends: Realms of Runeterra (Official Companion)
by Riot GamesUnlock the mysteries and magic within League of Legends, one of the world's most popular video games, in this encyclopedic and collectible companion book that explores the game's epic lore. Embark on a journey through the realms of Runeterra in this first-ever collectible companion book, published to celebrate the game's tenth anniversary. Spanning the farthest reaches of this universe and venturing into uncharted territory, this encyclopedic compendium connects players to the rich storytelling that inspires all the action. Inside, you'll find:An expedition through eleven regions, chronicling conflicts, entrenched rivalries, and covert alliancesHundreds of illustrations, including never-before-seen maps and artworkInsights into the heroes, flora, fauna, architecture, politics, and technologies from all corners of this worldOriginal narratives that bring the cultures of Runeterra to lifeLeague of Legends is an online game played by millions of people around the world, offering endless engagement with an expanding roster of champions, frequent updates, and a thriving esports scene. This volume is an essential reference for fans everywhere.
Leakage Resilient Password Systems
by Yingjiu Li Qiang Yan Robert H. DengThis book investigates tradeoff between security and usability in designing leakage resilient password systems (LRP) and introduces two practical LRP systems named Cover Pad and ShadowKey. It demonstrates that existing LRP systems are subject to both brute force attacks and statistical attacks and that these attacks cannot be effectively mitigated without sacrificing the usability of LRP systems. Quantitative analysis proves that a secure LRP system in practical settings imposes a considerable amount of cognitive workload unless certain secure channels are involved. The book introduces a secure and practical LRP system, named Cover Pad, for password entry on touch-screen mobile devices. Cover Pad leverages a temporary secure channel between a user and a touch screen which can be easily realized by placing a hand shielding gesture on the touch screen. The temporary secure channel is used to deliver a hidden message to the user for transforming each password symbol before entering it on the touch screen. A user study shows the impact of these testing conditions on the users' performance in practice. Finally, this book introduces a new LRP system named ShadowKey. Shadow Key is designed to achieve better usability for leakage resilient password entry. It leverages either a permanent secure channel, which naturally exists between a user and the display unit of certain mobile devices, or a temporary secure channel, which can be easily realized between a user and a touch screen with a hand-shielding gesture. The secure channel protects the mappings between original password symbols and associated random symbols. Unlike previous LRP system users, Shadow Key users do not need to remember anything except their passwords. Leakage Resilient Password Systems is designed for professionals working in the security industry. Advanced-level students studying computer science and electrical engineering will find this brief full of useful material.
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Translation/transnation Ser. #40)
by Tarek El-ArissHow digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek El-Ariss situates these critiques of power within a pervasive culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by digital technology yet emerge from traditional cultural models.Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, El-Ariss connects WikiLeaks to The Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective scene-making of Arab popular culture. He shifts the epistemological and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and intellectual debate.Theorizing the rise of “the leaking subject” who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly political means, El-Ariss investigates the digital consciousness, virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of scandal.Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals maps the changing landscape of Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual, the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.
The Lean-Agile Dilemma: Product Management Inside a Chunky Corporate
by Katie TamblinOver the last decade, Lean-Agile principles have become the standard methodology by which product and technology teams operate. However, Lean-Agile was written for small companies seeking new markets to buy their innovative software products, not for an average corporation with a catalogue of existing software products that must be maintained and rebuilt. The typical tech-enabled business isn't a lean startup; it's a chunky corporate. This book offers an alternative software development methodology perfectly suited for chunky corporate product management. You’ll quickly find out how individual players in the corporate organization impact business performance. You’ll follow the story of Blake, a well-meaning but ultimately naive, CEO of a fictional company called Acme Tech. As he and Acme struggle to maintain business performance, it becomes apparent how embedded and complex his challenges are. Lean-Agile principles are regularly misapplied in the corporate environment, causing tension, missed deadlines, and inefficient working practices. You’ll see that managing software transformation at a large, mature business requires a new set of tools. Popular development methodologies are not well-suited for the replatforming exercises that chunky corporates inevitably face. This book helps product and technology leaders navigate software development projects at organizations grappling with the constraints of investor ownership. Chunky corporates have a lot going for them: The Lean-Agile Dilemma reveals that, when managed well, they have the potential to be safe havens in a relentlessly unstable world. You will: Understand how replatforming differs from new product development Learn how to manage existing data when updating or building new software Gain tools to prioritize items in your overstuffed product roadmap Who This Book is For Product managers, product owners, product leadership, tech leadership, and business leaders at mature tech-enabled businesses.
Lean AI: How Innovative Startups Use Artificial Intelligence to Grow
by Lomit PatelHow can startups successfully scale customer acquisition and revenue growth with a Lean team? Out-of-the-box acquisition solutions from Facebook, Google, and others provide a good start, but the companies that can tailor those solutions to meet their specific needs, objectives, and goals will come out winners. But that hasn’t been an easy task—until now.With this practical book, author Lomit Patel shows you how to use AI and automation to provide an operational layer atop those acquisition solutions to deliver amazing results for your company. You’ll learn how to adapt, customize, and personalize cross-channel user journeys to help your company attract and retain customers—to usher in the new age of Autonomous Marketing.Learn how AI and automation can support the customer acquisition efforts of a Lean startupDive into Customer Acquisition 3.0, an initiative for gaining and retaining customersExplore ways to use AI for marketing purposesUnderstand the key metrics for determining the growth of your startupDetermine the right strategy to foster user acquisition in your companyManage the increased complexity and risk inherent in AI projects
Lean and Agile Software Development: 6th International Conference, LASD 2022, Virtual Event, January 22, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #438)
by Adam Przybyłek Aleksander Jarzębowicz Ivan Luković Yen Ying NgThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, LASD 2022, which was held online on January 22, 2022. The conference received a total of 29 submissions, of which 9 full papers, 1 short paper and 1 position paper are included in this volume. In addition, the volume contains one keynote paper in full paper length. Topics discussed in this volume cover various aspects of agile software development and range from agile testing, to agile effort estimation, an agile approach to model-driven development, and remotely working agile teams.
Lean and Agile Software Development: 5th International Conference, LASD 2021, Virtual Event, January 23, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #408)
by Adam Przybyłek Jakub Miler Alexander Poth Andreas RielThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, LASD 2021, which was held online on January 23, 2021. The conference received a total of 32 submissions, of which 10 full and 2 short papers are included in this volume. In addition, one keynote paper is also included. To live the agile mindset, the LASD conference focuses on highly relevant research outcomes and fosters their way into practice. Topics discussed in this volume range from teams under COVID-19 through women in Agile, to product road-mapping and non-functional requirements.
Lean and Green Manufacturing: Towards Eco-Efficiency and Business Performance (Management and Industrial Engineering)
by Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan K. E. K. Vimal Harish Kumar Anbanandam Ramesh Vernika AgarwalThis book provides a stage-by-stage integration of lean and green manufacturing paradigms to achieve environmental and economic benefits. The book includes chapters on conceptual development for incorporating the lean and green paradigm, and methods, tools and techniques for developing and integrating lean manufacturing. Several case studies which demonstrate the benefits of integrating lean and green manufacturing techniques are also covered here. The contents of this book are expected to support researchers and practitioners in the implementation of integrated lean and green manufacturing technologies.
The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation: From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer
by Yves CaseauThe Lean Approach to Digital Transformation: From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer is organized into three parts that expose and develop the three capabilities that are essential for a successful digital transformation: 1. Understanding how to co-create digital services with users, whether they are customers or future customers. This ability combines observation, dialogue, and iterative experimentation. The approach proposed in this book is based on the Lean Startup approach, according to an extended vision that combines Design Thinking and Growth Hacking. Companies must become truly "customer-centric", from observation and listening to co-development. The revolution of the digital age of the 21st century is that customer orientation is more imperative -- the era of abundance, usages rate of change, complexity of experiences, and shift of power towards communities -- are easier, using digital tools and digital communities. 2. Developing an information system (IS) that is the backbone of the digital transformation – called “exponential information system” to designate an open IS (in particular on its borders), capable of interfacing and combining with external services, positioned as a player in software ecosystems and built for processing scalable and dynamic data flows. The exponential information system is constantly changing and it continuously absorbs the best of information processing technology, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 3. Building software “micro-factories” that produce service platforms, which are called “Lean software factories.” This “software factory” concept covers the integration of agile methods, tooling and continuous integration and deployment practices, a customer-oriented product approach, and a platform approach based on modularity, as well as API-based architecture and openness to external stakeholders. This software micro-factory is the foundation that continuously produces and provides constantly evolving services. These three capabilities are not unique or specific to this book, they are linked to other concepts such as agile methods, product development according to lean principles, software production approaches such as CICD (continuous integration and deployment) or DevOps. This book weaves a common frame of reference for all these approaches to derive more value from the digital transformation and to facilitate its implementation. The title of the book refers to the “lean approach to digital transformation” because the two underlying frameworks, Lean Startup and Lean Software Factory, are directly inspired by Lean, in the sense of the Toyota Way. The Lean approach is present from the beginning to the end of this book -- it provides the framework for customer orientation and the love of a job well done, which are the conditions for the success of a digital transformation.
Lean Architecture
by James O. Coplien Gertrud BjørnvigMore and more Agile projects are seeking architectural roots as they struggle with complexity and scale - and they're seeking lightweight ways to do itStill seeking? In this book the authors help you to find your own pathTaking cues from Lean development, they can help steer your project toward practices with longstanding track recordsUp-front architecture? Sure. You can deliver an architecture as code that compiles and that concretely guides development without bogging it down in a mass of documents and guesses about the implementationDocumentation? Even a whiteboard diagram, or a CRC card, is documentation: the goal isn't to avoid documentation, but to document just the right things in just the right amountProcess? This all works within the frameworks of Scrum, XP, and other Agile approaches
Lean Branding: Creating Dynamic Brands to Generate Conversion (Lean (o'reilly) Ser.)
by Laura BuscheEvery day, thousands of passionate developers come up with new startup ideas but lack the branding know-how to make them thrive. If you count yourself among them, Lean Branding is here to help.This practical toolkit helps you build your own robust, dynamic brands that generate conversion. You'll find over 100 DIY branding tactics and inspiring case studies, and step-by-step instructions for building and measuring 25 essential brand strategy ingredients, from logo design to demo-day pitches, using The Lean Startup methodology's Build-Measure-Learn loop.Learn exactly what a brand is--and what it isn'tBuild a minimal set of brand ingredients that are viable in the marketplace: brand story, brand symbols, and brand strategyMeasure your brand ingredients by using meaningful metrics to see if they meet your conversion goalsPivot your brand ingredients in new directions based on what you've learned--by optimizing rather than trashingFocus specifically on brand story, symbols, or strategy by following the Build-Measure-Learn chapters that apply
Lean Computing for the Cloud
by Eric BauerApplies lean manufacturing principles across the cloud service delivery chain to enable application and infrastructure service providers to sustainably achieve the shortest lead time, best quality, and value <p><p> Applies lean thinking across the cloud service delivery chain to recognize and minimize waste <p> Leverages lessons learned from electric power industry operations to operations of cloud infrastructure <p> Applies insights from just-in-time inventory management to operation of cloud based applications <p> Explains how traditional, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Enhanced Telecom Operation Map (eTOM) capacity management evolves to lean computing for the cloud
Lean Customer Development
by Cindy AlvarezHow do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research--before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, you'll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. These insights may shake your assumptions, but they'll help you reach the "ah-ha!" moments that inspire truly great products.Validate or invalidate your hypothesis by talking to the right peopleLearn how to conduct successful customer interviews play-by-playDetect a customer's behaviors, pain points, and constraintsTurn interview insights into Minimum Viable Products to validate what customers will use and buyAdapt customer development strategies for large companies, conservative industries, and existing products
Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy
by Cindy AlvarezHow do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, you’ll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. These insights may shake your assumptions, but they’ll help you reach the "ah-ha!" moments that inspire truly great products.Validate or invalidate your hypothesis by talking to the right peopleLearn how to conduct successful customer interviews play-by-playDetect a customer’s behaviors, pain points, and constraintsTurn interview insights into Minimum Viable Products to validate what customers will use and buyAdapt customer development strategies for large companies, conservative industries, and existing products
Lean Customer Development.
by Cindy AlvarezZnaj klienta swego Zweryfikuj swoj? hipotez?, rozmawiaj?c z w?a?ciwymi osobami. Krok po kroku naucz si? prowadzi? skuteczne wywiady Customer Development. Rozpoznawaj zachowania klientów, ich problemy i ograniczenia. Na podstawie pozyskanych w ten sposób informacji zbuduj minimalnie satysfakcjonuj?cy produkt, który pozwoli Ci potwierdzi?, co klienci s? sk?onni kupi? i czego b?d? u?ywa?. Dostosuj techniki sk?adaj?ce si? na model Customer Development do potrzeb du?ych organizacji, konserwatywnych bran? i istniej?cych ju? produktów.Jak tworzy? produkty, które ludzie b?d? chcieli kupowa?? Bez wzgl?du na to, czy jeste? w?a?cicielem niewielkiej firmy czy pracownikiem wielkiego koncernu, zadajesz sobie to samo pytanie. Je?li szukasz niezawodnej metody badania potrzeb i preferencji klientów, dzi?ki której zaoszcz?dzisz wiele miesi?cy pracy oraz mnóstwo pieni?dzy, zapraszamy do ?wiata Lean Customer Development.To metoda id?ca o krok dalej ni? tradycyjne techniki marketingowe. Nie tylko pomo?e Ci pozna? potrzeby i preferencje klientów oraz zg??bi? user experience, ale zweryfikuje t? wiedz? na drodze eksperymentów naukowych. Dzi?ki odpowiedniemu po??czeniu otwartych wywiadów oraz szybkich i elastycznych technik badawczych dowiesz si?, jak zachowuj? si? Twoi potencjalni klienci, jakie problemy usi?uj? rozwi?za?, a tak?e co ich frustruje, a co jest przedmiotem ich zachwytów. Dowiedz si?, jak zmienia? zachowania konsumentów, tworzy? wielkie produkty i budowa? trwa?? firm?.Ksi??ki z serii Lean, serii, której redaktorem jest http://helion.pl/autorzy/eric-ries,eriris.htm">Eric Ries, za?o?yciel ruchu Lean Startup. Niniejsza ksi??ka k?adzie nacisk na podstawowe aspekty metodologiczne i zawiera praktyczne przyk?ady, opracowane z my?l? o deweloperach, mened?erach i innych cz?onkach zespo?u Twojego startupu. Dzi?ki niej poznasz skuteczne narz?dzia i przyjmiesz sposób my?lenia sprzyjaj?cy podejmowaniu szybkich i m?drych decyzji.
Lean Digital Transformation: Geschäftsmodelle transformieren, Kundenmehrwerte steigern und Effizienz erhöhen
by André KievietLernen Sie mit diesem Buch, wie Sie Prozesse der Lean Digital Transformation erfolgreich umsetzenMit seinem Buch „Lean Digital Transformation“ zeigt André Kieviet, dass die Umsetzung digitaler Strukturen innerhalb größerer Organisationen keine unlösbare Aufgabe ist. Finden Sie heraus, wie Sie die Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung für Unternehmen nutzen können. Ein situatives Ordnungsschema unterstützt Sie bei der Frage nach relevanten, technologischen Werkzeugen.Methodisches Wissen und Praxisempfehlungen stehen im FokusZunächst beantwortet der Autor die grundlegenden Fragen „Was ist Digitalisierung und warum gibt es gerade jetzt diesen Hype?“. Auf diese Weise wird Ihnen dieses Konzept verständlich erläutert. Anschließend widmet sich Kieviet dem pragmatischen Ansatz der Lean Digital Transformation. Der Begriff „Lean“ wurde von ihm bewusst gewählt und beleuchtet zwei Perspektiven:Lean steht für Einfachheit: Firmen sollten nicht digitalisieren, nur um sich einem aktuellen Trend unterzuordnen. Vielmehr geht es um die zielorientierte Nutzung von Informationen mit maschineller Hilfe.Lean steht für das Konzept des Lean Managements: Durch den absoluten Fokus auf den Kundenmehrwert soll jegliche Form der Verschwendung im Rahmen des digitalen Umbruchs reduziert werden.André Kieviet führt diese beiden Dimensionen zusammen. Durch diesen pragmatischen, sowie anhand von Beratungsprojekten entwickelten Ansatz, eignen Sie sich nicht nur neues, methodisches Wissen an. Gleichzeitig dient Ihnen dieses Werk als Praxisleitfaden, mit dem Sie neue Anwendungsfelder der Digitalisierung sowie anwendbare Technologien für Ihr Unternehmen entdecken. Auf diese Weise sind Sie in der Lage, die digitalen Transformationsprozesse von Geschäftsmodellen, Unternehmenskultur oder der Mitarbeiterkommunikation selbst zu meistern – ideal für Praktiker, Unternehmer sowie Berater.
Lean Entrepreneurship: Innovation In The Modern Enterprise
by George Watt Howard AbramsUtilize this comprehensive guide in your organization to create a corporate incubator that protects innovative ideas from oppressive corporate processes and culture and gives those ideas the resources and environment they need to grow and have the best possible chance to thrive. Innovation is hard. Ironically, innovation in a large enterprise can be even more difficult. Policies designed for mature businesses often crush emerging businesses along with the entrepreneurial spirit of the innovators. Procedures can make it difficult, even impossible, for innovative employees to get their ideas funded, or even seen. As a result, even companies with their roots in innovation can find themselves unable to innovate, with a devastating impact on employee morale and often resulting in the exodus of the most creative employees. In Lean Intrapreneurship the authors leverage decades of personal experience innovating in large enterprises to explore the root causes of failure to innovate in established organizations, and offer a solution to the innovator’s dilemma. The book includes a recipe for creating a repeatable program for innovating in large organizations, including tools, tips, and strategies developed by the authors as they created an innovative incubation program for a multi-billion-dollar technology company. It also offers a wealth of information to help aspiring intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. What You’ll LearnDiscover the most common reasons that innovation fails in established organizationsExplore techniques to make innovative ideas a successFollow a recipe to create a program to enable innovation across your companyUnderstand the power of transparency inside and outside an incubatorDevelop employees and foster a culture of innovation across your company Who This Book Is For Anyone with an innovative idea who wants to make it real but does not know where to begin; anyone struggling to innovate inside an established company; anyone who wishes to make their existing company more lean, agile, and efficient; anyone who wishes to start a program to incubate new, innovative ideas inside an established company
Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban
by Henrik KnibergYou know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is illustrated with a photo or diagram, and anecdotes bring you inside the project as you discover why and how one organization modernized its workplace in record time.Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice.Find out how the Swedish police combined XP, Scrum, and Kanban in a 60-person project. From start to finish, you'll see how to deliver a successful product using Lean principles. We start with an organization in desperate need of a new way of doing things and finish with a group of sixty, all working in sync to develop a scalable, complex system. You'll walk through the project step by step, from customer engagement, to the daily "cocktail party," version control, bug tracking, and release. In this honest look at what works--and what doesn't--you'll find out how to:Make quality everyone's business, not just the testers.Keep everyone moving in the same direction without micromanagement.Use simple and powerful metrics to aid in planning and process improvement.Balance between low-level feature focus and high-level system focus.You'll be ready to jump into the trenches and streamline your own development process.
Lean Game Development: Apply Lean Frameworks to the Process of Game Development
by Julia Naomi Rosenfield BoeiraMaster Lean UX and Lean Startup techniques to improve your agile game development experience beyond Scrum. This updated version of the book focuses on applying lean and agile methodologies to the game development process and features improved examples, applied techniques, and a whole new section explaining how to test a game in Unity with CI. You'll see how to define a minimum viable product (MVP) for games with Lean Canvas, allowing customers to iterate over it and collect feedback for improvement at every cycle. All of these are achieved while still using standard Agile techniques. The first part of the book explains the ideation process of a game and how lean methodologies allow developers, especially small studios, to avoid scope creep. Next, it it provides guidance on creating MVPs and using player feedback to iterate and improve games. The book then discusses continual improvement (CI) methods. A crucial part of CI is generation of Lean Canvas. Lean Game Development, Second Edition shows you how to iterate until you develop a game that satisfies developers, gamers, and your studio's financial goals.What You'll LearnStudy lean and agile methodologies to enhance the game development process Find out how to improve the way game productions define value and iterate over itApply development strategies to enrich the game development processWho This Book Is ForPeople from all sectors of the gaming industry will find the book useful in planning their project in a more iterative way, unloading the management burden on the development process and collecting feedback to improve the game content as early as possible.
Lean, Green and Sustainability: 8th IFIP WG 5.7 European Lean Educator Conference, ELEC 2022, Galway, Ireland, November 22–24, 2022, Proceedings (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #668)
by Olivia McDermott Angelo Rosa José Carlos Sá Aidan TonerThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Lean Educator Conference ELEC 2022, which took place in Galway, Ireland, in November 2022; the event was sponsored by IFIP WG 5.7. The 28 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. They are organized in the following thematic sections: Lean & People; Lean in Healthcare; Lean 4.0; Lean in Manufacturing; Lean Learning in the Digital Era; Lean, Green & Sustainability; and Lean in Services.