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Author:   Jean Tabaka
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.638kg
ISBN:  

9780321268778

ISBN 10:   0321268776
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   02 February 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  xix About the Author  xxi Foreword  xxiii Preface  xxv Overview  xxix   Section I: Setting the Collaborative Context  1 Chapter 1: What Is Collaboration?  3 Chapter 2: What Are Collaborative Cultures?  7 Chapter 3: Who Are Collaborative Leaders?  13 Chapter 4: What Are Collaborative Teams?  23   Section II: Applying Collaboration  45 Chapter 5: Defining Project Collaboration Events  47 Chapter 6: Preparing Yourself as the Process Owner  71 Chapter 7: Preparing Participants for Collaboration  85 Chapter 8: Setting the Collaborative Agenda  97 Chapter 9: The Organizing Tools  109 Chapter 10: Starting the Collaborative Meeting  137 Chapter 11: Defining the Steps  147 Chapter 12: Gathering the Information–Brainstorming and Listing  155 Chapter 13: Dialogues, Small Groups, and Expert Input Approaches  167 Chapter 14: Team Estimating Approaches  185 Chapter 15: Processing the Information  193 Chapter 16: Visioning, Retrospection and Other Approaches  213 Chapter 17: Managing the Meeting Participants  227 Chapter 18: Managing Conflict  253 Chapter 19: Guerilla Collaboration  263 Chapter 20: Closing the Collaborative Meeting  269     Section III: Extending Collaboration  277 Chapter 21: Collaboration Practices for Small Teams  279 Chapter 22: Collaboration Practices for Distributed Teams  285 Chapter 23: Collaboration for Organizations  297   Section IV: Collaborative Facilitation Guides  301 Chapter 24: Generic Project Meetings  305 Chapter 25: Crystal Clear  325 Chapter 26: Scrum  341 Chapter 27: XP and Industrial XP  357   Bibliography  387 Index  391  

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Jean Tabaka is an Agile Coach with Rally Software Development, specializing in creating, coaching, and mentoring collaborative, agile software teams. Jean brings over 25 years of experience in software development to the agile plate in a variety of organizational contexts including internal IT departments, ISVs, government agencies, and consulting organizations. Having implemented both plan-driven and agile development approaches for Sybase, Siebel Systems, and Qwest, as well as a variety of smaller ventures, her work has spanned industries and continents. As an agile mentor, Jean coaches software teams through training and facilitation to adopt agile principles and practices using a hybrid of the leading agile methods. With a passion for collaboration practices through facilitation techniques, she guides organizations in creating high-performance teams. She is the co-author of Physical Database Design for Sybase SQL Server (Prentice Hall, 1995) and is a frequent lecturer and contributor on the topic of collaboration practices in agile teams. A Certified ScrumMaster, as well as Certified ScrumMaster Trainer, and Certified Professional Facilitator, she holds a Master of Arts from Michigan State University and a Master of Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.   © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

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