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  The Goal

  by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  A fully dramatized version of the practical guide to business in fictional form offers an ensemble cast, accompanied by sound effects and music, that reveals how businesses can enhance productivity and provide personal fulfillment. Book available.
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  Introduction to the Personal Software Process(sm)

  by Watts S. Humphrey

  Introduces Personal Software Process (PSP), which is a guide to using disciplined personal practices to do superior software engineering. A hands-on book that provides practical exercises to help improve time-management and quality - assurance practices. Paper.
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  Quality is Free

  by Philip B. Crosby

  The first and only nontechnical method for installing, maintaining, and measuring a comprehensive quality improvement program in your business operation. Special features: Emphasizes throughout that doing things right the first time adds nothing to the cost of a product or service. (What costs, and costs dearly in terms of rework, test, warranty, inspection, and service after service, is doing things wrong).... (more)
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  What Is Six Sigma?

  by Peter S. Pande

  A brief introduction to Six Sigma­­ for employees Six Sigma is today's most talked-about system for improving the quality of organizational processes. Written by bestselling author Peter Pande, What Is Six Sigma? is a concise summary of the core themes and processes of Six Sigma. Unlike almost all other books on Six Sigma, it is written for the employees of organizations rolling out Six Sigma­­not just... (more)
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  A Discipline for Software Engineering

  by Watts S. Humphrey

  Watts S. Humphrey, author of Managing the Software Process, broadens his disciplined approach to software engineering. In this book, Humphrey helps software practitioners develop the skills and the habits they will need in order to plan, track, and analyze large and complex projects more carefully and successfully. Clear examples and sample forms of projects are included.
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  Planning Extreme Programming

  by Kent Beck, Martin Fowler

  Focuses on the time and cost for developing each user story and determining its priority, and planning software releases accordingly. Covers such topics as outsourcing, making changes to the team, dealing with bugs, and working with business contracts. Softcover. DLC: Computer software--Development.
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  The Tipping Point

  How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

  by Malcolm Gladwell

  This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to... (more)
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  Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy

  by Watts S. Humphrey

  Humphrey relates the substantial benefits real organizations have obtained from such awareness and control, and he concludes with an analysis of the impressive financial returns the recommended transformations typically yield. Softcover.
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  Making Process Improvement Work: A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners

  by Neil S. Potter

  Every development organization can benefit by paying attention to process improvement, yet all too many "process improvement initiatives" fail to deliver on their promises. In this concise book, two of the field's leading consultants present easy-to-apply techniques for achieving rapid and quantifiable benefits -- and then maintaining your momentum to deliver even greater value over time. Drawing on their... (more)