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Lean management po polsku. O dobrych i złych praktykach
Tomasz Król
11 i pół powodu, dlaczego lean, six sigma i kaizen nie działają Każdy przedsiębiorca chciałby, aby jego firma potrafiła działać bardziej elastycznie, nie marnowała zasobów i obniżyła swoje koszty. Odpowiedzią na tę potrzebę jest koncepcja szczupłego zarządzania, która okazała się niezwykle skuteczna w firmach motoryzacyjnych. Po trzydziestu latach od spopularyzowania lean management, six sigma i filozofii kaizen te metody stały się podstawowymi narzędziami usprawniania procesów w firmach produkcyjnych i usługowych. Niestety, próby adaptowania w przedsiębiorstwach koncepcji zarządzania w duchu lean często kończą się niepowodzeniem. Dlaczego tak się dzieje? Tomasz Król dostrzega jedenaście i pół przyczyny, które wymienia w swojej książce. Autor od piętnastu lat pomaga działającym na polskim rynku przedsiębiorstwom doskonalić się w duchu "szczupłego zarządzania". W trakcie swojej pracy zetknął się z wieloma przykładami udanych i nieudanych wdrożeń koncepcji lean. Jest współautorem skutecznego systemu wdrażania, który również opisuje w książce. Skorzystaj z jego doświadczeń i rad przed przystąpieniem do usprawniania własnego biznesu!
Lean management po polsku. O dobrych i złych praktykach. Wydanie II
Tomasz Król
Szczupłe zarządzanie, które działa Lean management, czyli koncepcja zarządzania zakładająca "wyszczuplanie" firmy, u jednych wywołuje gwałtowny entuzjazm, u innych... dreszcz niepokoju. Wezwanie szefa: "Musimy działać bardziej lean!" bywa odbierane jako komunikat: "Będziemy zwalniać". Szeregowi pracownicy, ale również kierownicy niższego szczebla, a czasem i menedżerowie, zamiast doceniać zalety wysmuklonego zarządzania, serdecznie go nienawidzą i w efekcie, świadomie lub podświadomie, je sabotują. Czy czynią tak z czystej złośliwości? Raczej nie. Prędzej dlatego, że nie rozumieją koncepcji albo nie widzą dla niej zastosowania we własnej zawodowej codzienności. Lean management jawi im się raczej jako dodatkowy problem, a nie rozwiązanie wielu kwestii, z którymi zmagają się w pracy. Skoro tak jest, to znaczy ni mniej, ni więcej, tylko tyle, że szczupłe zarządzanie jest wprowadzane w firmie nieskutecznie. Jak zrobić to efektywnie, tak by nie tylko uniknąć błędów i spełnić pokładane w tej koncepcji nadzieje, ale też by spotkała się ona z pełnym zrozumieniem i akceptacją załogi? Tego dowiesz się z książki Tomasza Króla.
Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy, Adam Dennis
Lean is the ultimate methodology for creating a startup that succeeds. Sounds great from a theoretical point of view, but what does that mean for you as an a technical co-founder or mobile developer? By applying the Lean Start-up methodology to your mobile App development, it will become so much easier to build apps that take Google Play or the App Store by storm. This book shows you how to bring together smarter business processes with technical know-how.It makes no sense to develop a brilliant app for six months or longer only to find out later that nobody is interested in it. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Validate your hypotheses early and often. Discover effective product development strategies that let you put Facebook's famous axiom move fast and break thingsinto practice. A great app without visibility and marketing clout is nothing, so use this book to market your app, making use of effective metrics that help you track and iterate all aspects of project performance.
Lean Product Management. Successful products from fuzzy business ideas
Mangalam Nandakumar
Lean Product Management is about finding the smartest way to build an Impact Driven Product that can deliver value to customers and meet business outcomes when operating under internal and external constraints. Author, Mangalam Nandakumar, is a product management expert, with over 17 years of experience in the field. Businesses today are competing to innovate. Cost is no longer the constraint, execution is. It is essential for any business to harness whatever competitive advantage they can, and it is absolutely vital to deliver the best customer experience possible. The opportunities for creating impact are there, but product managers have to improvise on their strategy every day in order to capitalize on them. This is the Agile battleground, where you need to stay Lean and be able to respond to abstract feedback from an ever shifting market. This is where Lean Product Management will help you thrive.Lean Product Management is an essential guide for product managers, and to anyone embarking on a new product development. Mangalam Nandakumar will help you to align your product strategy with business outcomes and customer impact. She introduces the concept of investing in Key Business Outcomes as part of the product strategy in order to provide an objective metric about which product idea and strategy to pursue. You will learn how to create impactful end-to-end product experiences by engaging stakeholders and reacting to external feedback.
Lean UX dla zespołów Agile. Projektowane doskonałych wrażeń użytkownika. Wydanie II
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
Zaprojektowanie doświadczeń użytkownika (UX) jest najłatwiejsze, jeśli do pracy i testów angażuje się... rzeczywistych userów i pozyskuje od nich informację zwrotną. Podejście lean UX łączy podstawy myślenia projektowego i programowania zwinnego. Myślenie projektowe rozszerza zakres pracy poza interfejsy i artefakty, opierając się na współpracy, iteracjach, budowaniu i empatii. Metodologie zwinne polegają na przeorientowaniu wytwarzania oprogramowania na krótsze cykle, regularnym dostarczaniu wartości i ciągłym uczeniu się. Ważne jest szybkie zapoznawanie klientów z pomysłami i ciągłe dostosowywanie się do nowo zdobytej wiedzy. W ten sposób lean UX znakomicie sprawdza się w projektowaniu wrażeń użytkownika w środowiskach zwinnych. Ta książka jest drugim wydaniem znakomitego podręcznika, w którym opisano wartościowe zasady, taktyki i techniki polecane dla zespołów pracujących nad produktem, aby mogły one w zwinnym procesie ująć projektowanie, eksperymenty oraz nieustanne doskonalenie rozwiązań. W książce pokazano, jak ściśle współpracować oraz wcześnie i odpowiednio często pozyskiwać informacje zwrotne. Praktyczne wskazówki ułatwią wdrożenie zasad kierowania projektowaniem w krótkich, powtarzalnych cyklach, co pozwoli na ocenę, które działania są najlepsze dla firmy i użytkownika. To cenna pozycja zarówno dla projektantów UX, jak i dla programistów czy menedżerów, którzy znajdą w niej źródło pożytecznych wskazówek ułatwiających uzyskanie doskonałych wrażeń użytkownika. W tej książce: zarys metodologii lean UX i zasady projektowania doświadczeń użytkownika etapy cyklu lean UX pozyskiwanie informacji zwrotnych i ich wykorzystywanie integracja praktyk lean UX w obrębie organizacji rola podejścia lean UX w typowym środowisku zwinnego wytwarzania oprogramowania Lean UX: zwinne zespoły projektują najlepsze interakcje!
Julien Simon
Amazon SageMaker enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale without managing any infrastructure. It helps you focus on the machine learning problem at hand and deploy high-quality models by eliminating the heavy lifting typically involved in each step of the ML process. This second edition will help data scientists and ML developers to explore new features such as SageMaker Data Wrangler, Pipelines, Clarify, Feature Store, and much more.You'll start by learning how to use various capabilities of SageMaker as a single toolset to solve ML challenges and progress to cover features such as AutoML, built-in algorithms and frameworks, and writing your own code and algorithms to build ML models. The book will then show you how to integrate Amazon SageMaker with popular deep learning libraries, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, to extend the capabilities of existing models. You'll also see how automating your workflows can help you get to production faster with minimum effort and at a lower cost. Finally, you'll explore SageMaker Debugger and SageMaker Model Monitor to detect quality issues in training and production.By the end of this Amazon book, you'll be able to use Amazon SageMaker on the full spectrum of ML workflows, from experimentation, training, and monitoring to scaling, deployment, and automation.
Learn Ansible. Automate cloud, security, and network infrastructure using Ansible 2.x
Russ McKendrick
Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services—meaning it can be used to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the first choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use.This end-to-end, practical guide will take you on a learning curve from beginner to pro. You'll start by installing and configuring the Ansible to perform various automation tasks. Then, we'll dive deep into the various facets of infrastructure, such as cloud, compute and network infrastructure along with security.By the end of this book, you'll have an end-to-end understanding of Ansible and how you can apply it to your own environments.
Russ McKendrick
Are you tired of manually deploying and managing your infrastructure and looking for ways to streamline your deployments, introduce consistency and collaboration, and save time? If so, then Learn Ansible is for you. Written by a DevOps practitioner and system administrator with 30+ years of experience, this book will teach you how to automate repetitive tasks and effortlessly manage several resources from a single code base.From installing Ansible and writing your first playbook to deploying multi-tier applications across different cloud platforms, this book will take you on an exciting learning journey. By learning the art of defining highly available cloud infrastructure using code, you’ll find it easy to distribute configurations alongside your application. You’ll explore Ansible Galaxy, learn about community-contributed Ansible roles, and discover how to create and share your own roles. Later, the book delves into the capabilities of Ansible AWX and integrating Ansible with your CI/CD pipelines, using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. With real-world examples and hands-on tutorials, you’ll build a solid foundation to tackle any automation project.By the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently implement Ansible in your environment and day-to-day workflows, taking your deployments to the next level.
Learn Apache Mesos. A beginner's guide to scalable cluster management and deployment
Manuj Aggarwal
Apache Mesos is an open source cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications or frameworks. This book will help you build a strong foundation of Mesos' capabilities along with practical examples to support the concepts explained throughout the book.Learn Apache Mesos dives straight into how Mesos works. You will be introduced to the distributed system and its challenges and then learn how you can use Mesos and its framework to solve data problems. You will also gain a full understanding of Mesos' internal mechanisms and get equipped to use Mesos and develop applications. Furthermore, this book lets you explore all the steps required to create highly available clusters and build your own Mesos frameworks. You will also cover application deployment and monitoring.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to use Mesos to make full use of machines and how to simplify data center maintenance.
Learn Arduino Prototyping in 10 days. Your crash course to build innovative devices
Kallol Bosu Roy Choudhuri
This book is a quick, 10-day crash course that will help you become well acquainted with the Arduino platform. The primary focus is to empower you to use the Arduino platform by applying basic fundamental principles. You will be able to apply these principles to build almost any type of physical device. The projects you will work through in this book are self-contained micro-controllerprojects, interfacing with single peripheral devices (such as sensors), building compound devices (multiple devices in a single setup), prototyping standalone devices (powered from independent power sources), working with actuators (such as DC motors), interfacing with an AC-powered device, wireless devices (with Infrared, Radio Frequency and GSM techniques), and finally implementing the Internet of Things (using the ESP8266 series Wi-Fi chip with an IoT cloud platform). The first half of the book focuses on fundamental techniques and building basic types of device, and the final few chapters will show you how to prototype wireless devices. By the end of this book, you will have become acquainted with the fundamental principles in a pragmatic and scientific manner. You will also be confident enough to take up new device prototyping challenges.
Scott Patterson
Serverless computing is a way to run your code without having to provision or manage servers. Amazon Web Services provides serverless services that you can use to build and deploy cloud-native applications. Starting with the basics of AWS Lambda, this book takes you through combining Lambda with other services from AWS, such as Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Step Functions. You’ll learn how to write, run, and test Lambda functions using examples in Node.js, Java, Python, and C# before you move on to developing and deploying serverless APIs efficiently using the Serverless Framework. In the concluding chapters, you’ll discover tips and best practices for leveraging Serverless Framework to increase your development productivity. By the end of this book, you’ll have become well-versed in building, securing, and running serverless applications using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda without having to manage any servers.
Kamil Mrzygłód
Microsoft Azure is one of the upcoming cloud platforms that provide cost-effective solutions and services to help businesses overcome complex infrastructure-related challenges. This book will help you scale your cloud administration skills with Microsoft Azure.Learn Azure Administration starts with an introduction to the management of Azure subscriptions, and then takes you through Azure resource management. Next, you'll configure and manage virtual networks and find out how to integrate them with a set of Azure services. You'll then handle the identity and security for users with the help of Azure Active Directory, and manage access from a single place using policies and defined roles. As you advance, you'll get to grips with receipts to manage a virtual machine. The next set of chapters will teach you how to solve advanced problems such as DDoS protection, load balancing, and networking for containers. You'll also learn how to set up file servers, along with managing and storing backups. Later, you'll review monitoring solutions and backup plans for a host of services. The last set of chapters will help you to integrate different services with Azure Event Grid, Azure Automation, and Azure Logic Apps, and teach you how to manage Azure DevOps.By the end of this Azure book, you'll be proficient enough to easily administer your Azure-based cloud environment.
Stephen Pearson
Blender is a free, open source 3D software that allows you to create stunning visual graphics, animation, VFX, and much more!This book is an in-depth guide to creating realistic and eye-catching simulations, understanding the various settings and options around their creation, and learning how to troubleshoot solutions to your own Blender problems. In addition, this book can also be used to simulate the behavior of certain physics effects, such as fire, fluid, soft bodies, and rigid bodies.You’ll learn how to use Mantaflow, an open source framework within Blender software, to create fire, smoke, and fluid simulations. As you progress, you’ll understand how to easily produce satisfying rigid and soft body simulations, along with cloth simulations. Finally, you’ll use Dynamic Paint, Blender’s modifier, and the physics system to create eye-catching animations.By the end of this Blender book, you’ll have created a number of animations on your own, such as a campfire, waterfalls, and explosions. You’ll also have gained a deeper understanding of all the simulation options in Blender, which you can use to create portfolio-ready animations.
Stephen Pearson
Ready to unleash the power of visual effects? From explosive movie scenes to mind-bending game animations, this second edition pushes Blender 4.0+ beyond what you thought possible. Featuring a brand-new chapter on combining multiple simulations for a burning effect and updated guidance on rendering with EEVEE, this book takes your Blender expertise to new heights.While Blender excels in 3D modeling and animation, this guide focuses specifically on VFX, helping you master realistic simulations using EEVEE and Cycles. You'll explore five physics-based simulations—Fluid, Rigid Body, Soft Body, Cloth, and Dynamic Paint—learning essential settings, troubleshooting techniques, and practical workflows. Through nine hands-on projects, including fire, waterfalls, and explosions, you’ll develop the skills to create stunning digital effects. Written by a VFX specialist who has taught thousands through best-selling courses, this book will help you build an impressive portfolio of professional-quality VFX projects in Blender and bring your creative visions to life!*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Eric Traub
Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript begins by giving you a clear understanding of what blockchain technology is. You’ll then set up an environment to build your very own blockchain and you’ll add various functionalities to it. By adding functionalities to your blockchain such as the ability to mine new blocks, create transactions, and secure your blockchain through a proof-of-work you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of how blockchain technology functions.As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll learn how to build an API server to interact with your blockchain and how to host your blockchain on a decentralized network. You’ll also build a consensus algorithm and use it to verify data and keep the entire blockchain network synchronized. In the concluding chapters, you’ll finish building your blockchain prototype and gain a thorough understanding of why blockchain technology is so secure and valuable. By the end of this book, you'll understand how decentralized blockchain networks function and why decentralization is such an important feature for securing a blockchain.
Gaurav Aroraa
This book takes a unique approach to teach C# to absolute beginners. You’ll learn the basics of the language in seven days. It takes a practical approach to explain the important concepts that build the foundation of the C# programming language. The book begins by teaching you the basic fundamentals using real-world practical examples and gets you acquainted with C# programming. We cover some important features and nuances of the language in a hands-on way, helping you grasp the concepts in a fluid manner. Later, you’ll explore the concepts of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) through a real-world example. Then we dive into advanced-level concepts such as generics and collections, and you’ll get acquainted with objects and LINQ. Towards the end, you’ll build an application that covers all the concepts explained in the book. By the end of this book, you will have next-level skills and a good knowledge of the fundamentals of C#.