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You are an Agile Coach and you are being called in to fix a bad problem. Your client has entered into a fixed price contract with their client, but it looks like the project is going sour. Half of the time and money have been spent but only about 30 percent of the milestones have been reached. Management wants you to "do Agile" and fix the problem. What should you do? This case and the others in the series come from the real-world experiences of a group of Scrum professionals who meet regularly to discuss the Scrum Framework and how to apply it to actual situations they have encountered.

This is the story of a life with and the loss of a very special dog. It's a journey through unbounded joy, crushing grief, and the path forward. Woody was a very special animal, and he made abrupt and profound changes to me while he was alive, and those changes continue today. While this journey has been one of the most painful of my life, I am full of gratitude for what he taught me and what he continues to teach me today. While some of this book may seem unbelievable and quite magical, every word is true.

You are a Scrum Master and you have a challenge: You are coaching a new Product Owner doing release planning for the first time. There are three politically powerful stakeholders who each wan their project included as your team's highest priority. It is clear that due to the lack of resources it will be a miracle if even one of the enhancements can be delivered.

You are a Scrum Master and you have a challenge: You have been hired to "fix" a poorly performing software development team. When you join the group you find that it is dominated by a very capable by a strong willed woman that the team calls "Bossy Bobbie". She makes every decision and assigns tasks to all of the other developers. She follows them up and takes over their tasks if they fall behind. No one is happy about the situation, but no one seems willing to do anything about it.

Prison psychologist Dr. Alison Payne has interviewed hundreds of convicted killers, advocating for their release—or determining if they should remain behind bars. But when a string of murders eerily replicates the unsolved case of Alison’s sister, she is thrust into a spine-chilling game by a serial killer who knows her too well. Alison must confront her own past and decode the killer's clues before another young woman meets a tragic end.

Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of wreckage it left behind, from the boulevards of Paris to the dockyards of Adelaide, as deep inside the Australian government a secret group conspired to overthrow the winning French bid. In this tale of treachery and intrigue, Andrew Fowler exposes the lies and deception that so outraged the President of France.

Prison psychologist Dr. Alison Payne has interviewed hundreds of convicted killers, advocating for their release—or determining if they should remain behind bars. But when a suspected killer she once interviewed escapes, Alison must delve into the dark corridors of his mind to save others before it's too late—and to save herself.

Lizzy Ballard is struggling to achieve her dream—a normal life unencumbered by her lethal and unwanted abilities—but her past and the enemies who seek to control her won’t let her go. To make matters worse, Philip Castillo, a man who means more to Lizzy than she’s ready to admit, has vanished, likely held hostage by crime kingpin Billy Chapel. As Lizzy races against time to find Philip while keeping herself out of Billy's clutches, she quickly realizes the cost of her pursuit may be higher than she ever imagined.

He was a cop. Now he’s been turned into something else—and the system that built him wants him to disappear. In the crumbling corridors of Neo-Manchester, order is enforced by the Corp, and faith is rationed by the Temple. Kris is a uniform beat cop, sharp, principled, and expendable. When he digs too deep into a forbidden case, the system turns on him. Left for dead, he’s forcibly remade with black-market tech, rebuilt into something faster, colder, and infinitely more dangerous. But the upgrade did not kill his conscience.

Signs are converging as prophetic pieces rapidly fall into place. Jesus is coming soon to remove His followers from the earth in the greatest rescue mission in history: the Rapture of the Church. In What's Next? Preparing for the Rapture, Bible teachers Jimmy Evans and Mark Hitchcock provide an authoritative and comprehensive look at this imminent event.

Did you know that Maryland’s unofficial nickname is “America in Miniature”? In its 10,460 square miles of land, there is a lot of variety packed into this Mid-Atlantic state. Are you surprised that 450 species of birds have been documented in the Old-Line State? Do you want to learn which birds are native to Maryland and those just passing through? If you want to know more about the answers to these questions, then this book is for you....

Eat Like a Local - Battle Creek, Michigan, by Sarah M M Phillips, offers the inside scoop on food in Battle Creek. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

In this book, you will discover advice on having a unique edible experience. This book will not tell you exact addresses or hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge of food and drinks from a local that you may not find in other travel food guides. Eat like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the food, people, and culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next culinary destination.

Eat Like a Local - Sacramento, by Emerald Jean, offers the inside scoop on food in the valley of Sacramento. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

In the chaos of World War II, a hidden artifact ignites an extraordinary journey through time and history. Will, Dez, Isaac, and Amy anticipated an ordinary summer until a chance discovery—a weathered comic book—catapulted them into a mystery that spanned generations. From the quaint streets of Cape Cod to the heart of wartime Europe, the four friends race to unravel the secrets hidden within the pages, their bond deepening with every clue.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Dubrovnik. Greater Than a Tourist - Dubrovnik, Croatia, by author Lana Tessari, offers the inside scoop on Dubrovnik, the Pearl of Adriatic. Greater Than a Tourist - Dubrovnik, Croatia is a book where you will find tips, suggestions, etc., from someone who had lived there, occasionally is revisiting the city, and still has a strong passion for the place.

Why should any Jew in their right mind wish to consider or perhaps reconsider, Christianity from a different vantage point? It is a fair question. There are potentially many reasons. Intellectual honesty is an important one. This book seeks to explore alternative approaches to Christianity that permit Jews to consider it as something else besides idolatry without abandoning traditional Jewish theology.

Jason Crandall, recently widowed, is left to raise his young daughter and rebellious teenage son on his own - and the old Victorian in Shadow Springs seems like the perfect place for them to start over. But the cracks in Jason’s new world begin to show when he meets Savannah Sturgess, a beautiful socialite who has half the men in town dancing on tangled strings.

The Drayton Chronicles is a collection of novellas chronicling the evolution of a vampire. In "Drayton, The Taker:" Blake Barnes commits suicide by freezing on Mt. Hood. As his life fades, he assumes Death has come to him in the form of a young man. In his last moments, he asks Death to find his family, to tell them he's sorry. Drayton honors this last request as he absorbs Blake Barnes' waning essence. He travels to the Lowcountry of South Carolina to find his family. But saying sorry is not always as easy as the words imply.

Curiosity: The Secret Ingredient for Success in Personal and Professional Growth describes the ins and outs of curiosity: what it is, how it works and what it does; how it influences success for individuals and organizations, why it is hard to maintain over time and how we–and our organizations—can get (even) better at it. The book is a practical guide for professionals to help them become aware of and take intentional action towards being more curious towards the world, others and even themselves.