Best Project Management Software Books
A study guide for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam, this book provides all the information project managers need to thoroughly prepare for the test. Andy Crowe is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Six Sigma Black Belt, a Program Management Professional (PgMP), and the founder of Velociteach, a company that provides project management and certification training.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Ordered - 13 October 2013, Amazon chat verified it would be the 2nd printing, and that I should contact them if there was any issue. I saw reviews talking about mistakes in the first printing and I wanted to be certain that I didn't receive the 1st printing, which I saw at a local BN bookstore today for $99.95."
"The most efficient way to study for the test is to read this book, try to understand it, take a three-day bootcamp course with a great instructor and take the exam a week after that. The PMP Exam: Quick Reference Guide, Fifth Edition (Test Prep series) by Andy Crowe was also pretty useful."
"Well I can tell you that those errors did not carry on to the test and the test followed the advice and lessons given in this book. Now I will not argue that the test in this book final and other wise was not in line with the actual test. I equate the tests in this book as being the walk phase in the crawl, walk, run concept of education and training. The system works just like the actual test and the questions are spot on.So if you want to have the real test questions then use the test bank. Memorize the equations in this book and you will have all the math you need to know for the test. In the end for me I looked and what I had marked as important for memorization and items I highlighted thru the book x3 times the week before my test and did the same with my PMBOK but only once."
"In addition, the book comes with a week long free pass to their website."
In this book you will learn: How to foster a more creative and collaborative team How to increase the performance of the team How to know when you are a successful ScrumMaster Scrum Mastery is for practicing ScrumMasters who want to develop themselves into a great servant-leader capable of taking their teams beyond simple process compliance. Having started using Scrum at British Telecom, one of the first large-scale agile adoptions, he has since coached organisations large and small through their agile journeys.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is without a doubt one of the better, true to life Scrum books I've found."
"Hand down the best resource from scrum masters I have found."
"I've worked in Scrum "environments" since 2008, but never knew the full scope of what Scrum can do."
"loads of good informations and real life examples were extremely useful."
"Great book even for someone with some scrum master experience."
"What a wonderful book."
A quick reference guide for the PMP Exam, this sturdy, laminated card accompanies The PMP Exam: How To Pass On Your First Try , 5th Edition. Andy Crowe is a certified six-sigma black belt and the founder of Velociteach, a company that provides project management and certification training.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The quick reference is very detailed with all the information I need to prepare for the exam."
"Love it, perfit, it was exactly what I was looking for."
"Complete and compact reference."
"The full package of Crowe test prep materials is definitely worth the money if you are serious about passing the PMP exam."
"Everything you need to memorize the big components of the PMP structures and in a concise manner."
"With the recent changes from the Jan 2016 PMP exam update, you really need to know the ITTO's which are incomplete on this pamphlet."
"Too much information crammed."
Best Presentation Software Books
No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you've delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Connect with specific audiences Turn ideas into informative graphics Use sketching and diagramming techniques effectively Create graphics that enable audiences to process information easily Develop truly influential presentations Utilize presentation technology to your advantage. Principal of Duarte Design since 1990, Nancy Duarte passionately pursues the presentation development and design niche.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Phenomenally detailed and useful book on presentation design."
"Targeted towards important presentations,not day to day presentations."
"My Dad recently transition from being Director of Pathology to a Professor at a Medical School for Pathology."
"This book is the gold standard for presentation books."
"In my opinion, the best book on designing presentations."
"This is a great practical guide on developing better presentations."
"I came away with several ideas I used on a current project: drawing storyboards by hand, using the "push" transition, and creating a non-linear presentation."
"Great practical tools to polish up your presentation immediately."
Best Spreadsheet Books
Spreadsheet") guides you through every aspect of Excel Delivers essential coverage of all the newest features of Excel 2010 Presents material in a clear, concise, logical format that is ideal for all levels of Excel experience Includes a CD that contains all the templates and worksheets used in the book plus John Walkenbach's award-winning Power Utility Pak. You won't find a more comprehensive book on Excel 2010 than this!" If Excel can do it, John Walkenbach can show you how. Excel guru, Microsoft MVP, and author of all the previous top-selling editions of Excel Bible, John Walkenbach provides more than 1,000 pages packed with techniques, tips, and tricks for beginners as well as Excel power users. Preview how your copied text will look Spot trends in your data with Sparklines Chart your data using Excel's different chart types Master Excel formulas for useful worksheets Create effective charts suitable for the boardroom Analyze and present data with pivot tables.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have been using Excel for more than 15 years and consider myself a competent intermediate level user (though many in the office think I'm an "advanced user"); however I felt that my knowledge of Excel had become stagnant and I knew that I wasn't really taking advantage of many of the newer analytical functions of Excel. The book is well organized into the following Parts, each with many chapters included: Part I: Getting Started with Excel. Part II: Working with Formulas and Functions. Part III: Creating Charts and Graphics. Part IV: Using Advanced Excel Features. Part V: Analyzing Data with Excel. Part VI: Programming Excel with VBA. For now, I am concentrating my efforts in Part IV and Part V - not sure I'll work long enough (or have need for) Part VI !"
"Since I didn't work with calendars generally during that time (as I do now, since I use formulas that include full dates in yyyymmdd format to calculate dates for project management schedules), my practice started out as using the full date, rather than year only. Instead of simply entering the value "2011" (the year when I bought the book), I had tested the formulas first by entering the base date as "1/1/2011," and then as "=DATE(2011,1,1). However, the print version included errors in the formulas for calculating dates of the U.S. holidays -- especially for those holidays that do not fall on the same day each year. For example, the date formula for Independence Day (a holiday that falls on the same date each year) was shown in the book as =DATE(A1,7,4) instead of =DATE(YEAR(A1),7,4)."
"The reason I did not give it five stars is, with all these types of reference books, the indexes are not perfect."
"I bought this book because of the positive reviews and also because I liked Walkenbach's "Excel 2000 Power Programming with VBA" that I bought many years ago. This book explains nothing more about FFT analysis than the Excel Help."
Best Enterprise Applications
Design for minimum complexity and maximum creativity Reap the benefits of collaborative development Apply defensive programming techniques to reduce and flush out errors Exploit opportunities to refactor—or evolve—code, and do it safely Use construction practices that are right-weight for your project Debug problems quickly and effectively Resolve critical construction issues early and correctly Build quality into the beginning, middle, and end of your project. He is the author of several books, including Code Complete and Rapid Development, both honored with Software Development magazine's Jolt Award.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"readable encyclopedia of best practices on software quality, covering topics such as how to build classes, use data and control structures, debug, refactor, and code-tune. Yes, it would be nice if the book was updated to include substantive material on languages like Ruby or Python (cf. p. 65, Python "also contains some support for creating larger programs") but, in the words of Gertrude Stein, "Not everything can be about everything" -- though Code Complete does come pretty close. McConnell also sprinkles the text with classic words of wisdom, e.g. "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull" (Edsger Dijkstra), "Never debug standing up" (Gerald Weinberg), "Copy and paste is a design error" (David Parnas), "Any fool can defend his or her mistakes -- and most fools do." It is important to point out that even though this volume is encyclopedia-like, it does have both a sense of humor (e.g. "the encryption algorithm is so convoluted that it seems like it's been used on itself") and a clear authorial voice (e.g. "Though sometimes tempting, that's dumb."). 33, after quoting Edward Yourdon at length, McConnell adds "This lusty tribute to programming machismo is pure B.S. I found this to be bizarre, given that in the 1995 edition of "The Mythical Man-Month" Brooks states in no uncertain terms that he has changed his mind on this: "This I now perceive to be wrong" (p. 265). On a different note, although some of the on-line accompanying material is fascinating (e.g. the links to the original Dijkstra and Lawrence articles in ch."
"Very readable, excellent real-world examples and case studies, and many valuable insights."
"I'm a self taught programmer going on 5 years now doing it full time, and I have learned a lot of techniques that have filled in some holes in my skills."
"The Microsoft code way."
"Bad humor, takes a long time to convey information, but is useful."
"I'd also recommend the more recent Clean Code, especially for Java programmers, as it goes into more depth, even providing actual case studies in which code is dramatically cleaned up."
"I make all of my new programmers at least read selections from it (in fact that is part of our training program.)."
"Great book on software development."