Category: Management & Leadership

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Mentoring is often a crucial, yet informal part of an organization’s best practices and skill development, whether targeted towards a team lead, project manager, designer, developer or a valued senior team member. This book provides practical strategies and methodologies for professionals to mentor others to successfully develop and deliver digital media projects across different types of settings.

Many professionals working with teams in the digital media industry (games, web development, XR, IoT, mobile) are drawn to teaching others, but may not know how or where to start. Many might be a subject expert but may not have the structure and skills in place to be able to teach others effectively in workplace and institutional settings. This handbook will give professionals a guide on how to mentor junior designers, developers and other learners in formal and informal learning environments.
Mentoring Digital Media Projects offers the right tools and strategies to use in digital media and emerging tech projects for you to better guide junior team members

What You’ll Learn

Understand the difference between mentoring and teaching
Design thinking strategies to better identify where, when and how you can help and mentor othersBuild mentoring pipelines, end-to end, especially in post-secondary learning environmentsCreate emerging technology projects with teams

Who This Book Is For

Digital media professionals (game, web development, XR, mobile, IoT, etc.) who have experience working in teams in their specific discipline and who want to mentor others.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (December 30, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 332 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484287975
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484287972
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.03 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

Price: $33.40
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Unlock the foundational principles of engineering leadership. Success in your company, with your team, requires an understanding that goes deeper than merely adopting industry best practices.

This book gives you practical models and examples that help you navigate the complexities of engineering organizations. This is a bird’s-eye view of the software field that reveals how product velocity, tech debt, Agile frameworks, team charters, and product leadership all fit together and how to use these connections to deliver product value at maximum speed.

Drawing from the lessons of Silicon Valley startups, Jack Danger ties together the many little complexities of engineering leadership into a unified whole and empowers engineering leaders at any size company to deliver real value to customers faster.

In these pages you’ll find practical tools to:

Measure and accelerate engineering velocityRepair the relationship between Product and EngineeringUncover hidden layers within your existing teamMake a portfolio of your technical debt

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CZNZDTMV
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Technical Executive (April 8, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8989761630
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.44 x 9 inches

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Develop faster with DevOps

DevOps embraces a culture of unifying the creation and distribution of technology in a way that allows for faster release cycles and more resource-efficient product updating. DevOps For Dummies provides a guidebook for those on the development or operations side in need of a primer on this way of working.

Inside, DevOps evangelist Emily Freeman provides a roadmap for adopting the management and technology tools, as well as the culture changes, needed to dive head-first into DevOps.

Identify your organization’s needsCreate a DevOps frameworkChange your organizational structureManage projects in the DevOps world

DevOps For Dummies is essential reading for developers and operations professionals in the early stages of DevOps adoption.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; Illustrated edition (August 2, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119552222
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119552222
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.83 x 9.25 inches

Price: $13.99
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08KJJJ69P
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (October 5, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8693326118
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.38 x 8.5 inches