Software Change Management

Software Change Management

Why is it so difficult to change organizations? What does it really take to make process improvement yield measurable results? For more than 30 years, Donald Riefer has been guiding software teams through the technical, organizational, and people issues that must be managed in order to make meaningful process changesand better products. This practical guide draws from his extensive experience, featuring 11 case studies spanning the public and private sectors and even academia. Each case study illuminates the original conditions; describes options and recommendations; details reactions, outcomes, and lessons learned; and provides essential references and resources.

Software Change Management

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

Precious Blood

Precious Blood

Dr Edward Jenner is a forensic pathologist and has performed thousands of autopsies but the killing of Andie Delore is different. She is marked with an ancient script. The sole eye witness is Andie’s flatmate and she turns to Dr Jenner for help. But when more victims are found it seems the killer is leading them into his own private nightmare, where there will be no escape.

Precious Blood

Private Practice

Private Practice

Hell teach her how to bring a man to his knees

Private Practice

Thorazine Beach

Thorazine Beach

Fiction. Mystery. Jack Minyard is a Private Dick down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind too. After narrowly escaping charges in a statewide fraud and money laundering scandal, Jack has been working private contracts and counting on the kindness of strangers to get by. (Not to mention a pile of prescription drugs.) In a last-ditch play to resurrect his career, Jack takes on a case that puts him on the wrong side of the tracks and in the midst of some of the roughest trade going. THORAZINE BEACH is a palpable and enthralling mystery.

Thorazine Beach

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors

Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. Great management happens in one-on-one meetings and with other managers all in private. It’s hard to learn management by example when you can’t see it.,

Find out what goes on Behind Closed Doors and see how a skilled manager turns around a tricky management situation in seven weeks. You’ll learn how to provide and use feedback effectively, and become a better coach and mentor peers and team members. As you begin to build a cohesive, ‘jelled’ team you’ll learn how to use your influence across the organization and make better choices daily to survive and thrive.

Behind Closed Doors