If you're a software engineer used to writing code in a room by yourself, the idea of leading a team-let alone a company-can be terrifying. After all, there are so many things that could go wrong: you might make a bad decision that hurts the company, get fired, or-perhaps worst of all-with the extra workload and decreased coding time, your skills might get rusty, hurting both your future job prospects and the respect you've earned from your peers. The...

Los conceptos esenciales de la Ingeniería de líneas de productos, los conocimientos necesarios, los modelos y los métodos utilizados para el desarrollo de las líneas de productos son introducidos en esta guía en forma gradual y simple. El lector, no obstante, podrá ir directamente a las secciones y capítulos específicos de acuerdo con su interés y conocimiento de este campo de la ingeniería.

Creating an app, site or any product that succeeds - or sells - is most definitely a tall order. Designing anything for people is tough, because we're inherently complex and...well...messy. Which means that things like market share and ROI don't come easy. But time and effort spent finding the right problems to solve allows designers, developers and product teams to take quantum leaps forward in exceeding the expectations of everyone involved. In...

Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's Guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are boosted by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building BlackBerry applications with Java with practical. If you are a Java programmer who wants to build BlackBerry applications...

The Up & Away Advisors' Guide to Implementing and Executing SAP's Vehicle Management System (VMS Guide) provides detailed instructions and insight for customers and consultants who are either considering or implementing this Industry Solution. The VMS Guide starts with the building blocks of the solution, then explores how to design more complex business processes. Each step is complimented with sample data that will allow readers to quickly set...

Change has led people of this time to become diverse in many different aspects - in terms of goals, beliefs, and practices, all manifested in a wide array of different lifestyles. Unlike before, parents now work online from home; students seek for video-call-assisted teaching tasks; call center agents increase in number; health care professionals utilize mobile apps to improve in their field; even children have become technically adept. Regardless...

Bundled along with this documentation is a copy of the FreshIM App, the WhatsApp clone for the Android platform. The clone application has been completely built keeping in mind, the customizability and functionality of our users, who will be using the application for their own purposes. Using this app, you could build your own internal private chat within your closed network – probably at your university or workplace. Also, if you've been looking...

Start programming from scratch, no experience required. This beginners' guide to software engineering starts with a discussion of the different editors used to create software and covers setting up a Docker environment. Next, you will learn about repositories and version control along with its uses. Now that you are ready to program, you'll go through the basics of Python, the ideal language to learn as a novice software engineer. Many modern applications...

Written continuously for over two years, Friday Q&A has provided thousands of readers with deep information on Mac programming. This compilation includes all of the articles posted from December 2008 to August 2010, proofread and organized into a single convenient package. Topics covered include: • Multithreaded programming • Blocks • Grand Central Dispatch • Interprocess communication • Performance profiling and optimization...

When I was in graduate school at UMUC studying for my Master's in Information Technology: Software Engineering, I remember having to utilize wide-ranging reading sources to understand Scrum. The information was scattered and detailed in various books and articles, which all stated the same or conflicting information. I wished there was one definitive book that detailed quickly the who, what, where, when, why, and how on Scrum. And here it is! The...