For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well--or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills.

This in-depth book shows you how to understand your role, manage your time, master strategic thinking, and set the standard for technical work. You'll read about how to be a leader without direct authority, how to plan ahead to make the right technical decisions, and how to make everyone around you better, while still growing as an expert in your domain.

By exploring the three pillars of a staff engineer's job, Tanya Reilly, a veteran of the staff engineer track, shows you how to:

• Take a broad, strategic view when thinking about your work
• Dive into practical tactics for making projects succeed
• Determine what good engineering means in your organization

Unlock Workday's Potential: Masterful Tips for Streamlined Success!

Celebrating over 2 Years of hashtag#WorkdayTips Posts!

Over the last two and a half years, I've done hundreds of #WorkdayTips posts on LinkedIn with close to 2 million views. This eBook includes over 50 posts focused on often overlooked Workday functionality and tips, which I organized around topics.

While many of my posts are specifically for the teams that support Workday, this eBook includes posts focused on tips and ways end users can better leverage Workday.

There are 50+ posts in this eBook, divided into the following categories:
- Cross-Platform Tips for End Users
- Security Tips
- Custom Report Tips
- Preparing for a new release
- Adjusting the Profile Pages
- Leveraging Custom Objects
- Leverage Workday Dashboards
- HCM-Specific Functionality Highlights
- Cross-Platform Workday Tips
- Other Miscellaneous Functionality Tips

Each post in the book includes a link to the original LinkedIn post so that you can see the comments and suggestions from other Workday users around each topic as well. I hope you find this helpful!

What does it take to support Workday well?
Workday is incredibly powerful software. Building a support model that will enable your company to maximize its benefits and return on investment has many aspects.
This book is designed to help companies and individuals who may be new to Workday and looking to build or enhance their support model.

Building a support model is a journey, not a destination.
This book comes from my 30 years of experience in IT and Operational roles in various industries, including nine years in the Workday space. My Workday experience includes leading projects and teams and writing hundreds of reports for a Workday customer. Then, doing consulting and being a regular contributor to LinkedIn with posts about Workday.

This is a collection of my LinkedIn Posts, not a textbook with specific tasks. It comes from my own experience and discussions with many Workday customers. It includes links to the original LinkedIn posts so that you benefit from the many comments and suggestions from my active group of followers there.

Over 150 topics in sections such as Building Your Foundation, Measuring Success, Building Your Support Model, Staffing for Workday, Handling Support Requests, Building Capacity, Managing Your Team Well, Leadership/Product Ownership, and Governance/Standards.

Join me on the journey to build a sustainable support process that will allow your company to truly leverage Workday and create an environment where your support team loves to be!

The go-to guide for learning coding from the ground-up

Adding some coding know-how to your skills can help launch a new career or bolster an old one. Coding All-in-One For Dummies offers an ideal starting place for learning the languages that make technology go. This edition gets you started with a helpful explanation of how coding works and how it's applied in the real-world before setting you on a path toward writing code for web building, mobile application development, and data analysis. Add coding to your skillset for your existing career, or begin the exciting transition into life as a professional developer--Dummies makes it easy.

• Learn coding basics and how to apply them
• Analyze data and automate routine tasks on the job
• Get the foundation you need to launch a career as a coder
• Add HTML, JavaScript, and Python know-how to your resume

This book serves up insight on the basics of coding, designed to be easy to follow, even if you've never written a line of code in your life. You can do this.

Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award!

Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process.This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours--sometimes even minutes-no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base.

Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the deployment pipeline, an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the ecosystem needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance.

The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes

• Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software
• Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels
• Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations
• Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams
• Implementing an effective configuration management strategy
• Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation
• Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements
• Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases
• Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies
• Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing

Whether you're a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever--so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably.

The most effective engineers - the ones who have risen to become distinguished engineers and leaders at their companies - can produce 10 times the impact of other engineers, but they're not working 10 times the hours.

They've internalized a mindset that took me years of trial and error to figure out. I'm going to share that mindset with you - along with hundreds of actionable techniques and proven habits - so you can shortcut those years.

Introducing The Effective Engineer - the only book designed specifically for today's software engineers, based on extensive interviews with engineering leaders at top tech companies, and packed with hundreds of techniques to accelerate your career.

For two years, I embarked on a quest seeking an answer to one question:

How do the most effective engineers make their efforts, their teams, and their careers more successful?

I interviewed and collected stories from engineering VPs, directors, managers, and other leaders at today's top software companies: established, household names like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; rapidly growing mid-sized companies like Dropbox, Square, Box, Airbnb, and Etsy; and startups like Reddit, Stripe, Instagram, and Lyft.

These leaders shared stories about the most valuable insights they've learned and the most common and costly mistakes that they've seen engineers - sometimes themselves - make.

This is just a small sampling of the hard questions I posed to them:

• What engineering qualities correlate with future success?
• What have you done that has paid off the highest returns?
• What separates the most effective engineers you've worked with from everyone else?
• What's the most valuable lesson your team has learned in the past year?
• What advice do you give to new engineers on your team?

Everyone's story is different, but many of the lessons share common themes.

You'll get to hear stories like:

• How did Instagram's team of 5 engineers build and support a service that grew to over 40 million users by the time the company was acquired?
• How and why did Quora deploy code to production 40 to 50 times per day?
• How did the team behind Google Docs become the fastest acquisition to rewrite its software to run on Google's infrastructure?
• How does Etsy use continuous experimentation to design features that are guaranteed to increase revenue at launch?
• How did Facebook's small infrastructure team effectively operate thousands of database servers?
• How did Dropbox go from barely hiring any new engineers to nearly tripling its team size year-over-year?

What's more, I've distilled their stories into actionable habits and lessons that you can follow step-by-step to make your career and your team more successful.

The skills used by effective engineers are all learnable.

And I'll teach them to you. With The Effective Engineer, I'll teach you a unifying framework called leverage - the value produced per unit of time invested - that you can use to identify the activities that produce disproportionate results.

Here's a sneak peek at some of the lessons you'll learn. You'll learn how to:

• Prioritize the right projects and tasks to increase your impact.
• Earn more leeway from your peers and managers on your projects.
• Spend less time maintaining and fixing software and more time building and shipping new features.
• Produce more accurate software estimates.
• Validate your ideas cheaply to reduce wasted work.
• Navigate organizational and people-related bottlenecks.
• Find the appropriate level of code reviews, testing, abstraction, and technical debt to balance speed and quality.
• Shorten your debugging workflow to increase your iteration speed.
• Use metrics to quantify your impact and consistently make progress.

Have you, like the rest of the world, speculated as to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, anonymous creator of Bitcoin? The world's first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin went online in 2009 and has since revolutionized our concepts of currency and money. Not supported by any government or central bank, completely electronic, Bitcoin is a virtual currency based on advanced cryptographic systems. Like the currency he created, the identity of Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto is virtual, existing only online. The Nakamoto persona, which may represent an individual or a group, exists only in the online publications that introduced and explained Bitcoin during its earliest days. Here, collected and professionally published for the first time are the essential writings that detail Bitcoin's creation. Included are - Satoshi Nakamoto Emails and Posts on Computer Forums Presented in Chronological Order - Bitcoin Fundamentals Presented in Layman's Terms - Bitcoin's Potential and Profound Economic Implications - The Seminal Paper Which Started It All The Book of Satoshi provides a convenient way to parse through what Bitcoin's creator wrote over the span of the two years that constituted his public life before he disappeared from the Internet . . . at least under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Beginning on November 1st 2009 with the publication of the seminal paper describing Bitcoin, this public life ends at about the time PC World speculated as to a possible link between Bitcoin and WikiLeaks, the infamous website that publishes leaked classified materials. Was there a connection? You be the judge. Nakamoto's true identity may never be known. Therefore the writings reproduced here are probably all the world will ever hear from him concerning Bitcoin's creation, workings, and theoretical basis. Want to learn more about Bitcoin? Go directly to the source-the writings of the creator himself, Satoshi Nakamoto!

In an uncertain and complex world, learning is more important than ever before. In fact, it can be a competitive advantage. Teams and organizations that learn rapidly deliver greater customer value faster and more reliably. Furthermore, those teams are more engaged, more productive, and more satisfied. The most effective way to enable teams to learn is by holding regular retrospectives. Unfortunately, many teams only get shallow results from their retrospectives. This book is filled with practical advice, techniques, and real-life examples that will take retrospectives to the next level--whether your team is co-located, hybrid, or remote. This book will help team leads, scrum masters, and coaches engage their teams to learn, improve, and deliver greater results.

For nearly two decades, scrum masters, team leads, and coaches have relied on the first edition of Agile Retrospectivesas an essential resource to facilitate better retrospectives.

This edition builds on recent research, reflects the authors' experiences over two decades, and shares wisdom gleaned from the global retrospective community. Find practical advice to level up retrospective skills. Address the challenges of remote and hybrid retrospectives head on. Take advantage of expanded guidance on designing and facilitating retrospectives--based on the questions and concerns of practitioners worldwide. Gain insight into choosing a broad or narrow focus for retrospectives. Explore how to use both objective and subjective data to enable more effective conversations. Learn how to make decisions that stick.

Understand the importance of psychological safety and how to foster it in retrospectives. Elevate issues and engage managers in systemic change.

Learn from many real-life stories that demonstrate how our advice has impacted retrospectives at organizations around the globe. Finally, find a set of recommended flows that reveal the authors' thought process in designing retrospectives for scenarios teams faced in real life.

You became a developer for one reason...

...because you love solving tough problems.

Why aren't you happy?

When you started to code, the beauty of the pure logic captured your heart. Hard work
and thousands of hours sitting at the keyboard have taught you how to develop software.
Still, there's something missing.

What didn't they teach you in school?

Success as a Software Developer requires skill and something nobody talks about,
mindset. If you're not planning for your future, you'll end up in a dead-end job you hate.
The secret lies away from the computer.

John uses a simple style to teach topics that you never knew you needed. This isn't
theory, it's proven through the results that let him retire at 33-years old.
You'll learn:

• Ways To Land The Job, Keep The Job And Climb The Corporate Ladder
• How To Stand Out From Your Competition
• 10-Step Process To Learn Anything
• What To Do With Your Paycheck to Maximize Your Earnings
• Why Healthy Living and Exercise are Crucial
• Ways to Build Your Brand

You'll love this unique career guide, because it isn't about writing a great resume, it's about
building one that will land you the dream job and all the other things that go with it.

Get it now.

Have you wondered what makes functional programming such a big deal, but haven't been able to get through any of the explanations? We wrote this book for you.

Four years in the making!

Phone-friendly: the code listings are easily readable without phone gymnastics.

This is a small book-it took an enormous amount of effort to make it so!

Implement modern DevOps techniques to increase business productivity, agility, reliability, security, and scalability

Key Features:

• Learn how to use business resources effectively for improved productivity and collaboration
• Use infrastructure as code practices to build large-scale cloud infrastructure
• Leverage the ultimate open source DevOps tools to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

Book Description:

In the implementation of DevOps processes, the choice of tools is crucial to the sustainability of projects and collaboration between developers and ops. This book presents the different patterns and tools for provisioning and configuring an infrastructure in the cloud, covering mostly open source tools with a large community contribution, such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer, which are assets for automation.

This DevOps book will show you how to containerize your applications with Docker and Kubernetes and walk you through the construction of DevOps pipelines in Jenkins as well as Azure pipelines before covering the tools and importance of testing. You'll find a complete chapter on DevOps practices and tooling for open source projects before getting to grips with security integration in DevOps using Inspec, Hashicorp Vault, and Azure Secure DevOps kit. You'll also learn about the reduction of downtime with blue-green deployment and feature flags techniques before finally covering common DevOps best practices for all your projects.

By the end of this book, you'll have built a solid foundation in DevOps and developed the skills necessary to enhance a traditional software delivery process using modern software delivery tools and techniques.

What You Will Learn:

• Understand the basics of infrastructure as code patterns and practices
• Get an overview of Git command and Git flow
• Install and write Packer, Terraform, and Ansible code for provisioning and configuring cloud infrastructure based on Azure examples
• Use Vagrant to create a local development environment
• Containerize applications with Docker and Kubernetes
• Apply DevSecOps for testing compliance and securing DevOps infrastructure
• Build DevOps CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, and GitLab CI
• Explore blue-green deployment and DevOps practices for open sources projects

Who this book is for:

If you are an application developer or a system administrator interested in understanding continuous integration, continuous delivery, and containerization with DevOps tools and techniques, this book is for you. Knowledge of DevOps fundamentals and Git principles is required.

An effective and practical study aid to the new OCP Java SE 17 Developer certification exam

In the OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 17 Developer Study Guide: Exam 1Z0-829, you'll find accessible and essential test prep material for the in-demand and practical OCP Java SE 17 Developer certification. Providing comprehensive coverage of all OCP Java SE 17 exam objectives and competencies, the Study Guide offers you access to all the skills and knowledge you'll need to succeed on the test and in the field as a new or experienced Java developer.

This book provides material on records, sealed classes, text blocks, dates, streams, controlling program flow, using the Java object-oriented approach, handling exceptions, working with arrays and collections, and more. You'll also get:

• Intuitively organized information that aligns with the competencies tested on the exam and those required by real-world Java developers
• Opportunities to practice and develop skills that remain in high demand in the IT industry
• Access to the Sybex online learning center, with chapter review questions, full-length practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms

Perfect for anyone prepping for the brand-new OCP Java SE 17 credential, OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 17 Developer Study Guide: Exam 1Z0-829 is also a can't-miss reference for practicing and aspiring Java developers seeking to learn or reinforce their foundational skills in Java programming and improve their performance on the job.

Empower Product Teams to Rock the World by Uncovering and Overcoming Dangerous Traps

Untrapping Product Teams guides you to simplify what gets unintentionally complicated and equips you to overcome dangerous traps while steadily driving customer and business value. This isn't just another book about product management. It's a thought-provoking guide filled with simplicity, encouraging you to act today for a better tomorrow.

This book is for anyone facing the challenges of working on or with product teams. It lays out leading best practices, combined with secret ingredients crafted by the author based on years of experience. Learn what makes or breaks product teams so you are ready to do what it takes to thrive with digital products.

• Learn the differences between coordinative and collaborative workflows
• Recognize dangerous traps and the strategies to overcome them
• Explore the product journey: simplify decision-making, apply mindful product discovery, use delivery to accelerate value, and measure results beyond outputs
• Craft product principles and set solid foundations for product teams
• Benefit from proven product health checks to uncover where to act today for a better tomorrow

This is my new favorite book on product management. Untrapping Product Teams covers everything you need to know to lead a product team and be successful as a product manager. Author David Pereira does an excellent job of pointing out biases and thinking traps that doom products. The book is full of many insights and tools that will be useful for years to come.
--Mike Cohn, co-founder of Agile Alliance

David's book shares several hard-earned lessons of what happens when product leaders, product managers, and especially product owners are not trained to succeed in their jobs, and they go on to make predictable and avoidable mistakes. This book can help you avoid some of these pitfalls.
--Marty Cagan, partner, Silicon Valley Product Group

This book touches on all the daily essentials for a product person. It's a practical guide and a meta-analysis rolled into one, serving as the 'Greatest Hits' album of Product Management. Ideal for newcomers and an excellent refresher for those already immersed in the field.
--Petra Wille, author of Strong Product People

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Printed in full color.

Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head.

In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain's architecture. You'll learn new tricks and tips to learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn.

You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to Refactor Your Wetware.

Programmers have to learn constantly; not just the stereotypical new technologies, but also the problem domain of the application, the whims of the user community, the quirks of your teammates, the shifting sands of the industry, and the evolving characteristics of the project itself as it is built.

We'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience, learning and behavioral theory. You'll see some surprising aspects of how our brains work, and how you can take advantage of the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills.

In this book you'll learn how to:

Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert

Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes

Avoid common known bugs in your mind

Learn more deliberately and more effectively

Manage knowledge more efficiently

Philosopher Noam Chomsky is famously quoted as saying that technology is neither good nor bad, but simply a neutral tool. He likens it to a hammer, which can be used by carpenters and torturers alike. While the neutrality of tech is an idea that appeals to many technologists, this perspective is out of alignment with today's realities of pervasive ad-tech, surveillance capitalism, algorithmic manipulation, and rising techno-fascism.

We Just Build Hammers applies a lens of speculative and science fiction to connect you with a historical lineage of thinkers and activists in the responsible tech movement. Its narrative spans a century of major technological upheavals: from the advent of the atomic age to the formative years of computing; from the hacker visionaries of the turn of the century to the tech justice revolutionaries of today.

This book challenges technologists to consider for themselves whether they're really just building hammers- technologies whose potential for good balances their potential for harm- or if they are unwittingly contributing to systems that exacerbate inequality, inequity, and injustice.

What You Will Learn

A historic grounding and a science fiction perspective to help untangle the difficult and fraught topic of tech ethics Ways to bring ethical considerations into the development of new technologies How to navigate the increasing complexity of the techno-social world we live and work in

Who This Book is For

Designed to appeal broadly, not just to engineers and technologists, but to anyone interested in the history and future of ethics and technology.

LAST UPDATE: 30. January 2025

The Road to React: The React.js with Hooks in JavaScript Book (2025 Edition) - is a comprehensive and pragmatic yet concise React 19 with Hooks (+ opt-in TypeScript) book. Purchase of this book includes free online access to the always up-to-date digital book.

What you will learn.

The Road to React made its debut in 2016, and since then, I've almost rewritten it annually. This book teaches the core principles of React, guiding you through building a practical application in pure React without complex tooling. The book covers everything from setting up the project to deploying it on a server. Each chapter includes additional recommended reading and exercises. By the end, you'll have the skills to develop your own React applications.

In The Road to React, I establish a solid foundation before delving into the broader React ecosystem. The book clarifies general concepts, patterns, and best practices for real-world React applications. Ultimately, you'll learn to construct a React application from scratch, incorporating features such as pagination, client-side and server-side searching, and advanced UI interactions like sorting.

Is it up to date?

Programming books are usually outdated soon after their release, but since this book is self- published, I can update it as needed whenever a new version of something related to this book gets released.

I am a beginner. Is this book for me?

Yes. The book starts from zero and takes you through the learning experience step by step. Every chapter builds up on the learnings from the previous chapter. In addition, at the end of every chapter, exercises fortify your lessons learned. If you got stuck in a chapter, you will always find a reference URL to the status quo of the actual code.

Core Concepts

• Pragmatic: Master React while building a complete application step by step.
• Problems Solving: You need to experience a problem first before solving it.
• The Why: Readers like how the book answers the Why, not only the How.

Table of Contents

Fundamentals of React

• Hello React
• Requirements
• Setting up a React Project
• Meet the React Component
• React JSS
• Lists in React
• Meet another React Component
• React Component Instantiation
• ReactDOM
• React Component Definition (Advanced)
• Handler Function in JSX
• React Props
• React State
• Callback Handlers in JSX
• Lifting State in React
• React Controlled Components
• Props Handling (Advanced)
• React Side-Effects
• React Custom Hooks (Advanced)
• React Fragments
• Reusable React Component
• React Component Composition
• Imperative React
• Inline Handler in JSX
• React Asynchronous Data
• React Conditional Rendering
• React Advanced State
• React Impossible States
• Data Fetching with React
• Data Re-Fetching in React
• Memoized Handler in React (Advanced)
• Explicit Data Fetching with React
• Third-Party Libraries in React
• Async/Await in React (Advanced)
• Forms in React

Styling in React

• CSS in React
• CSS Modules in React
• Styled Components in React
• SVGs in React

React Maintenance

• Performance in React (Advanced)
• TypeScript in React
• Unit Testing to Integration Testing
• React Project Structure

Real World React (Advanced)

• Sorting
• Reverse Sort
• Remember Last Searches
• Paginated Fetch

Deploying a React Application

• Build Process
• Deploy to Firebase

One of the biggest challenges for organizations that have adopted microservice architecture is the lack of architectural, operational, and organizational standardization. After splitting a monolithic application or building a microservice ecosystem from scratch, many engineers are left wondering what's next. In this practical book, author Susan Fowler presents a set of microservice standards in depth, drawing from her experience standardizing over a thousand microservices at Uber. You'll learn how to design microservices that are stable, reliable, scalable, fault tolerant, performant, monitored, documented, and prepared for any catastrophe.

Explore production-readiness standards, including:

• Stability and Reliability: develop, deploy, introduce, and deprecate microservices; protect against dependency failures
• Scalability and Performance: learn essential components for achieving greater microservice efficiency
• Fault Tolerance and Catastrophe Preparedness: ensure availability by actively pushing microservices to fail in real time
• Monitoring: learn how to monitor, log, and display key metrics; establish alerting and on-call procedures
• Documentation and Understanding: mitigate tradeoffs that come with microservice adoption, including organizational sprawl and technical debt

The Professional Product Owner's Guide to Maximizing Value with Scrum

This book presents a method of communicating our desires, cogently, coherently, and with a minimum of fuss and bother.

--Ken Schwaber, Chairman & Founder, Scrum.org

The role of the Product Owner is more crucial than ever. But it's about much more than mechanics: it's about taking accountability and refocusing on value as the primary objective of all you do. In The Professional Product Owner, two leading experts in successful Scrum product ownership show exactly how to do this. You'll learn how to identify where value can be found, measure it, and maximize it throughout your entire product lifecycle.

Drawing on their combined 40+ years of experience in using agile and Scrum in product management, Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham guide you through all facets of envisioning, emerging, and maturing a product using the Scrum framework.

McGreal and Jocham discuss strategy, showing how to connect Vision, Value, and Validation in ROI-focused agile product management. They lay out Scrum best-practices for managing complexity and continuously delivering value, and they define the concrete practices and tools you can use to manage Product Backlogs and release plans, all with the goal of making you a more successful Product Owner. Throughout, the authors share revealing personal experiences that illuminate obstacles to success and show how they can be overcome.

• Define success from the outside in, using external customer-driven measurements to guide development and maximize value
• Bring empowerment and entrepreneurship to the Product Owner's role, and align everyone behind a shared business model
• Use Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) to invest in the right places, make smarter decisions, and reduce risk
• Effectively apply Scrum's Product Owner role, artifacts, and events
• Populate and manage Product Backlogs, and use just-in-time specifications
• Plan and manage releases, improve transparency, and reduce technical debt
• Scale your product, not your Scrum
• Use Scrum to inject autonomy, mastery, and purpose into your product team's work

Whatever your role in product management or agile development, this guide will help you deliver products that offer more value, more rapidly, and more often.

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Master the Engineering of AI Systems: The Essential Guide for Architects and Developers

In today's rapidly evolving world, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into your systems is no longer optional. Engineering AI Systems: Architecture and DevOps Essentials is a comprehensive guide to mastering the complexities of AI systems engineering. This book combines robust software architecture with cutting-edge DevOps practices to deliver high-quality, reliable, and scalable AI solutions.

Experts Len Bass, Qinghua Lu, Ingo Weber, and Liming Zhu demystify the complexities of engineering AI systems, providing practical strategies and tools for seamlessly incorporating AI in your systems. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of AI and software engineering and how to combine them to create powerful AI systems. Through real-world case studies, the authors illustrate practical applications and successful implementations of AI in small- to medium-sized enterprises across various industries, and offer actionable strategies for designing, building, and operating AI systems that deliver real business value.

• Lifecycle management of AI models, from data preparation to deployment
• Best practices in system architecture and DevOps for AI systems
• System reliability, performance, and security in AI implementations
• Privacy and fairness in AI systems to build trust and achieve compliance
• Effective monitoring and observability for AI systems to maintain operational excellence
• Future trends in AI engineering to stay ahead of the curve

Equip yourself with the tools and understanding to lead your organization's AI initiatives. Whether you are a technical lead, software engineer, or business strategist, this book provides the essential insights you need to successfully engineer AI systems.

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Leverage Evidence-Based Management, a scientific method, to enable organizations to achieve goals under conditions of uncertainty.

Organizations often believe in the certainty of their plans and see every deviation from the plan as a sign of failure. They view the organization as a machine for creating and executing plans instead of looking at it as a responsive organism, attentive to the changes in its environment. In a world of uncertainties, organizations need to be capable of reinventing themselves every day based on new information.

In Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management, authors Patricia Kong, Todd Miller, Kurt Bittner, and Ryan Ripley use the framework developed by Scrum.org called Evidence-Based Management (EBM). EBM is an empirical approach that helps organizations use experimentation and rapid feedback to progress toward goals. This path is not always obvious or straightforward, but that is a benefit: in a complex and changing world, the path toward goals will always be uncertain. EBM helps organizations use new data to adapt their plan toward their goals.

Throughout the book, the authors present stories and experiences that illustrate how EBM can be applied to set better goals and then leverage empiricism to achieve those goals using feedback, learning, and evidence. This definitive guide will help your organization identify its true purpose, improve its ability to reach goals, and build a culture of trust, transparency, and growth.

• Clarify goals and demonstrate value, success, and progress using agile metrics
• Progress toward goals in uncertain and rapidly changing circumstances
• Embrace empiricism and experimentation to find solutions for complex problems
• Find real-world anonymized case studies on how to articulate goals and measurements in a way that fosters self-management and business agility

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