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Mastering Professional Scrum is for anyone who wants to deliver increased value by using Scrum more effectively. Leading Scrum practitioners Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl draw on years of Scrum training and coaching to help you return to first principles and apply Scrum with the professionalism required to achieve its transformative potential. The authors aim to help you focus on proven Scrum approaches for improving quality, getting and using fast feedback, and becoming more adaptable, instead of “going through the motions” and settling for only modest improvements.

Faced with a software project of epic proportions? Tired of over-committing and under-delivering? Enter the dojo of the agile samurai, where agile expert Jonathan Rasmusson shows you how to kick-start, execute, and deliver your agile projects. Combining cutting-edge tools with classic agile practices, The Agile Samurai gives you everything you need to deliver something of value every week and make rolling your software into production a non-event.

Discover how to take control of AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more—just by mastering the way you prompt them. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, Prompt Engineering Secrets reveals the proven techniques used by top writers, coders, marketers, educators, and entrepreneurs to generate smarter, faster, and more useful results from today’s most powerful language models.

AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back end. Starting with an overview of AWS Lambda, the audiobook moves on to show you common examples and patterns you can use to call Lambda functions from a web page or a mobile app. The second part of the audiobook puts these smaller examples together to build larger applications. By the end, you'll be ready to create applications that take advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS.

This book is for engineering leaders and experienced developers who want to build serious software with AI—and actually unlock the leverage it offers. It introduces a clear, step-by-step workflow that makes this approach reliable, repeatable, and scalable. You’ll learn a practical, disciplined approach to building applications—not with AI as a co-pilot, but as the primary developer.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Power Platform at Scale: Governing, Building, and Scaling Enterprise Platforms Your platform is live. Adoption is growing. And things are starting to break. Ungoverned apps. Unmonitored flows. Environments without policies. Solutions with no owners...

Want to know the secret to becoming an expert software engineer and getting any job you want? The answer is simple: experience. In this book, I will show you the system I use to design, develop, and deliver open source software; steer you away from the mistakes I’ve made along the way; and help you build an impressive résumé of projects that’ll get you that job you’ve always wanted, and in time, will earn you the right to call yourself an expert.

Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms is a fully illustrated and interactive tutorial guide to the different approaches and algorithms that underpin AI. Written in simple language and with lots of visual references and hands-on examples, you'll learn the concepts, terminology, and theory you need to effectively incorporate AI algorithms into your applications. And to make sure you truly grok as you go, you'll use each algorithm in practice with creative coding exercises.

A compelling and clear exploration of the power and peril of advanced artificial intelligence that provides actionable suggestions for all citizens to create a safer future with AI.

Pricing projects can feel tricky, but it doesn't have to be. Dan Mall explains how to earn more, by understanding what goes into a price (and why hourly rates don't work) and what your clients really want-and are willing to pay for. Learn the right questions to ask and when, and ways to turn client requirements into numbers, with a real-world example from Dan's agency.

Master the most common and challenging Product Owner interview questions with expert insights and practical answers If you're aiming for a Product Owner role, preparation is key — not just understanding Scrum, but also communicating your decisions, mindset, and value clearly during interviews. In this book, we’ll explore the most important and frequently asked questions in Product Owner interviews. You'll gain clarity on how to approach them and learn how to express your thoughts with confidence and precision.

If you’re a newbie entrepreneur, you have to have a dynamic website today with the ability to make funnel pages and quick text or post changes. The digital economy is growing super-fast and you have to keep up with a fast dynamic website. Unless you are a programmer, you don’t have time to code pages and scripts. With Wordpress you don’t need to know programming; it is so simple to use, in one day you can have a website up and the basics live. I’m going to show you how to set up your own domain and hosted account with Wordpress that you 100% fully control and own.

This best seller has been updated and revised to cover all the latest changes to C++ 14 and 17! C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition teaches you everything you need to write robust and elegant multithreaded applications in C++17. C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition is the definitive guide to writing elegant multithreaded applications in C++, it carefully addresses every aspect of concurrent development, from starting new threads to designing fully functional multithreaded algorithms and data structures.

Have you ever dreamed of creating an app that captivates millions and generates life-changing revenue? In How to Create a Million-Dollar Mobile App Using ChatGPT, you’ll discover the ultimate guide to turning your app idea into reality—step by step, from ideation to launch, and beyond.

API Design Patterns lays out a set of design principles for building internal and public-facing APIs. Google API expert JJ Geewax presents patterns that ensure your APIs are consistent, scalable, and flexible. You’ll improve the design of the most common APIs, plus discover techniques for tricky edge cases. Relevant examples and detailed scenarios make every pattern clear and easy to understand.

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but deploying them in applications introduces numerous technical challenges. Large Language Models: The Hard Parts offers a clear, practical examination of the limitations developers and AI engineers face when building...

SQL Essentials for Dummies is your quick reference to all the core concepts of SQL—a valuable common standard language used in relational databases. This useful guide is straightforward—with no excess review, wordy explanations, or fluff—so you get what you need, fast. Great for a brush-up on the basics or as an everyday desk reference, this book is one you can rely on.

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers, and we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit.

Natural Language Processing in Action is your guide to building machines that can read and interpret human language. In it, you'll use readily available Python packages to capture the meaning in text and react accordingly. The book expands traditional NLP approaches to include neural networks, modern deep learning algorithms, and generative techniques as you tackle real-world problems like extracting dates and names, composing text, and answering free-form questions.

Do you ever look at the clock and wonder where the day went? You spent all this time at work and didn't come close to getting everything done. Tomorrow try something new. Use the Pomodoro technique to work in focused sprints throughout the day. In Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, Staffan Noteberg shows you how to organize your work to accomplish more in less time. There's no need for expensive software or fancy planners. You can get started with nothing more than a piece of paper, a pencil, and a kitchen timer.