Development category: 15312 books
Extreme Programming Explained
Embrace Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Accountability. Transparency. Responsibility. These are not words that are often applied to software development.
In this completely revised introduction to Extreme Programming (XP), Kent Beck describes how to improve your software development by integrating these highly desirable concepts...
Leading Lean Software Development
Results Are not the Point
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Building on their breakthrough bestsellers Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s latest book shows software leaders and team members exactly how to drive high-value change throughout a software organization—and make it stick. They go far...
by Yvonne Rydin
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments. This book is the first to provide a cohesive analysis of sustainable urban development and to examine the processes by which change in how urban areas are built can be achieved. The author looks at...
Strategies for National Sustainable Development
A handbook for their planning and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series
This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series...
Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for ‘solving community problems’. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Separation distinction between the roles of the producer and consumer has become blurred with the development of new science and technologies enabling the emergence of the prosumer, or the active consumer. In the IT sector, the role of the end-user has broadened to include innovation and development...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical...
Asian Development Review
Volume 29, Number 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Asian Development Review is a professional journal for disseminating the results of economic and development research carried out by staff and resource persons of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Review seeks high-quality papers with relevance to policy issues and operational matters done...
by Joseph Hanlon, Teresa Smart
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Is Mozambique an African success story? It has 7 percent a year growth rate and substantial foreign investment. Fifteen years after the war of destabilisation, the peace has held. Mozambique is the donors' model pupil, carefully following their prescriptions and receiving more than a billion dollars...
After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development
Integrating Research into Practice and Policy, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. This volume reviews...
National Strategies to Harness Information Technology
Seeking Transformation in Singapore, Finland, the Philippines, and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of competitiveness and sustainable growth. As countries engage in an increasingly competitive global economy, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way enterprises...
Industry and Enterprise
An International Survey of Modernization and Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Industry and Enterprise: An International Survey of Modernization and Development
The latter part of the 20th century was a period of radical global political-economic change. Numerous non-Western countries industrialized and transitioned from statist-collectivism to modern market-capitalist...
CMMI for Development
Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
CMMI® for Development (CMMI-DEV) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI-DEV provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development and maintenance...
How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia
A complex governance challenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
An understanding of the role of energy-related governance systems and the conditions required for a shift towards renewables in developing countries is urgently needed in order to tap into the global potential of low-carbon development. Although renewable energy sources have become technically feasible...