Scrum Essentials
Agile Software Development and Agile Project Management for Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Stakeholders
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Alex Ballantyne
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Troy Dimes
About this listen
Create software that delivers more value.
Ideas are cheap. A lot of people seem to think that majority of the software development process is just creating a vague concept of an application that people might want. You’ve probably heard a lot of people say things like, “I have this idea for an app that’ll surely reach a million downloads!” only to find their apps lost in an ocean of similar apps.
Creating great software and delivering them on time requires a rather systematic but not overly rigid implementation scheme. Quality and time must go together. If you deliver software that’s full of bugs or poor in user experience, you really can’t expect another transaction with your client. A lot of programmers fear this outcome and instead take too long to create programs.
You have a limited amount of time to create software, especially when you’re given a deadline, self-imposed or not. You’ll want to make sure that the software you build is at least decent but more importantly, on time. How do you balance quality with time?
This audiobook dives into these very important topics. After listening to Scrum Essentials, you will know about scrum roles, sprints, scrum artifacts, and much more.
Here is what you will learn by listening to Scrum Essentials:
- What the Waterfall Method is and why you shouldn't be using this method to run your software projects.
- What Scrum is, where it came from, why you should use it, and how you can put it practical use in your organization today.
- The difference between Scrum and agile software development.
- The various Scrum roles including the product owner, the Scrum master, and the team members.
- What Sprints are and how to plan them.
- Who to do during a sprint and after.
- What burndown charts are and how they can change the way you run projects
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Design Thinking in Business and IT: Overview, Techniques and Example Workshop
- By: Florian Heuer
- Narrated by: Bryan Stout
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 75
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 75
You might've talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Basic design thinking lesson
- By Preston on 04-09-16
By: Florian Heuer
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Clarity First
- How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance
- By: Karen Martin
- Narrated by: Karen Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
Through her global consulting projects, keynote speeches, and work with thousands of leaders, Karen has seen first-hand how a pervasive lack of clarity strangles business performance and erodes employee engagement. Ambiguity is the corporate default state, a condition so prevalent that “tolerance for ambiguity” has become a clichéd job requirement. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for me - dislike narrator's voice +
- By sharing1 on 10-11-19
By: Karen Martin
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Superintelligence
- Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- By: Nick Bostrom
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,323
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,731
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,692
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Colossus: The Forbin Project is coming
- By Gary on 09-12-14
By: Nick Bostrom
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YouTube Secrets
- The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Following and Making Money as a Video Influencer
- By: Sean Cannell, Benji Travis
- Narrated by: Sean Cannell, Benji Travis
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,073
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,059
YouTube sensations and best-selling authors Sean Cannell and Benji Travis take your YouTube channel from slow and dormant to accelerated and engaged, using premium and updated YouTube growth tips for creators, business owners, digital entrepreneurs, and influencers. This is the ultimate game plan to grow a following and make money with the power of video.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't use a credit on this. Moderately passable
- By Scott on 08-04-19
By: Sean Cannell, and others
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Doom Guy
- Life in First Person
- By: John Romero
- Narrated by: John Romero
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 253
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Story5 out of 5 stars 253
Doom Guy: Life in First Person is the long-awaited autobiography of gaming’s original rock star and the cocreator of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein—some of the most recognizable and important titles in video game history. Credited with the invention of the first-person shooter, a genre that continues to dominate the market today, he is gaming royalty. Told in remarkable detail, a byproduct of his hyperthymesia, Romero recounts his storied career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intimate stories of gaming history in First Person
- By Emyli on 07-28-23
By: John Romero
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Slenderman
- Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
- By: Kathleen Hale
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 331
On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier’s violence was extreme, but what seemed even more frightening was that they committed their crime under the influence of a figure born by the internet: the so-called “Slenderman”. Yet the even more urgent aspect of the story, that the children involved suffered from undiagnosed mental illnesses, often went overlooked in coverage of the case.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration
- By Pink Amy on 08-21-22
By: Kathleen Hale
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- By: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,138
The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A disappointment
- By Ronald on 09-24-16
By: Gretchen Bakke
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Surveillance Valley
- The Secret Military History of the Internet
- By: Yasha Levine
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 244
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 195
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Story5 out of 5 stars 196
In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the Internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. With deep research, skilled storytelling, and provocative arguments, Surveillance Valley will change the way you think about the news - and the device on which you read it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profound look at the internet and surveillance
- By stuartjash on 04-06-18
By: Yasha Levine
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,949
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,724
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,720
Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remember Why You Got Into Computing
- By Dan Collins on 07-01-16
By: Steven Levy
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The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
- How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job
- By: John Sonmez
- Narrated by: John Sonmez
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,013
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 886
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 874
Technical knowledge alone isn't enough - increase your software development income by leveling up your soft skills Early in his software developer career, John Sonmez discovered that technical knowledge alone isn't enough to break through to the next income level - developers need "soft skills" like the ability to learn new technologies just in time, communicate clearly with management and consulting clients, negotiate a fair hourly rate, and unite teammates and coworkers in working toward a common goal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Complete Bro-grammer's Career Guide
- By Leels on 09-18-19
By: John Sonmez
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,949
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,629
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,623
A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A forced narrative and a bad version of Bad Blood
- By Benji on 09-09-19
By: Mike Isaac
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Prediction Machines
- The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,282
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,097
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,094
Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In Prediction Machines, three eminent economists recast the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction. With this single, masterful stroke, they lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not sure what I was expecting, but underwhelmed
- By William J Brown on 09-27-18
By: Ajay Agrawal, and others
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- By: Marc Levinson
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 545
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 548
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Topic sometimes lost in minutiae
- By zombie64 on 07-15-14
By: Marc Levinson
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- By: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 322
Run a Google search for “black girls” - what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls”, the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this book. Tell everyone you know about it.
- By Joshua Daniel-Wariya on 06-06-19
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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- By: Glenn Greenwald
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,938
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,615
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,609
In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Best Read in Print Format
- By Alfredo Ramirez on 11-22-14
By: Glenn Greenwald
What listeners say about Scrum Essentials
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- Josh Griffin
- 04-13-18
Scrum Essentials
Overall simplicity an a routine implementation an review along with continuously improving development style is the key to being a scrum master.
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- A. Medina
- 02-23-17
essential information and to the point
easy to understand theory on scrum and agile methodology. the narration is clean and easy to understand For the First Time person as well as an experienced person who just needs a brush up on this subject area
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- Damjan
- 04-22-18
Good details of SCRUM essentials
This book is a good detailed and all around book about the essentials of scrum, more as a managerial or project manager perspective of a software development project.
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