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You are an Agile Coach and you are being called in to fix a problem with project ownership. There is a team of developers who look good on paper but who are not performing up to expectations. They do not seem to care very much about the work they are doing. You have been asked to figure out what is wrong and to fix it. What should you do?

You are a Scrum Master and your team has a problem. Their work depends on another team to enhance the back end of the application but they are not being very helpful. Your team tells you that the other team's performance is an "impediment" and that you must go whip the other team into shape. What should you do?

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 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.

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.

CHASING A KIDNAPPER A K-9 team will do anything to protect a baby in danger When patrol officer Trisha McCord's six-month-old son is nearly abducted, K-9 officer West Cole saves him just in time. The single mom has no leads on who would try to take her baby—or why. And West won’t let her...

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.

When a controversial sculptor is found murdered, Kate Valentine is drawn into a deadly game with a disciple of a diabolical puppet master. She must decode the cryptic biblical clues left behind to prevent further sacrilegious killings and unveil the twisted justice of an assailant obsessed with punishing those who dare to blend the sacred with the profane.

Brilliant, bookish Camille has been lusting over her fellow expedition member, Eben, ever since they entered the Sumatran jungle. Her shyness has thus far kept them apart, but now that they’ve breached the mysterious temple they’ve been searching for, things are getting even hotter, wetter, and steamier than the jungle outside.

After losing his twin brother, Dimitri has felt adrift in the world. Joining this expedition to find an elusive dragon temple seemed a far-fetched fantasy, but a much-needed distraction nonetheless. Little did he know that the real fantasy was waiting for him inside. Now, doused in dragon magic, his passions have been stoked, and the naughty details of the ritual he keeps hearing about lure him into a chamber where he’s faced with an impossible choice.

Corey isn’t like the other explorers who have entered the long-lost dragon temple deep in the Sumatran jungle. Whereas to his eyes, their predilections are hardly discriminate, he longs for a partner—a woman who will be his equal, who might love him as much as she challenges him.

The whole reason Hallie even joined this expedition into the temple hidden deep inside the Sumatran jungle was to escape her demons. Yet the moment she arrives, the temple seems hell-bent on revealing every uncomfortable truth she’s fought so hard to keep hidden—and determined to plunge her into darkness once more.

Born to a race of creatures who strictly police their presence among humans, Kris possesses a gift only one dragon in each generation may possess—a human form which requires no magic to maintain. But he has paid dearly for this gift, as it has relegated him to a life of monastic solitude, exhaustive training, and an existence devoid of even a casual touch.

For nearly a decade, Erika Rosencrans has carried on her dead father's legacy to prove that dragons exist, but it isn't only his old archaeology research that drives her. Dreams of a potently masculine, red-haired man haunt her sleep and leave her aching to know him in the flesh. She is only sure of one thing: the man of her dreams is a dragon locked in hibernation and she won't stop searching until she finds him. Red dragon Geva has lain in stasis for five centuries, petrified in the form of a man awaiting release from his stone prison.

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 advocates for lifelong imprisonment begin turning up murdered in their own homes, Alison must use her expertise with the darkest minds to catch a killer who knows too much. But will her insight into the incarcerated be enough to solve the crimes before she becomes the next target?

In this eye-opening political allegory, Donald Trump is cast as the Sith Lord of American democracy—a master of illusion, fear, and unchecked ambition. Through history, analysis, and undeniable fact, this book reveals the cost of loyalty, the collapse of institutions, and the danger of a nation placing too much faith in one man.

Mary Fowler is already a global football superstar with the Matildas, but there's so much more to the person behind the headlines and highlight-reel goals. Bloom is a mix of deeply personal experiences that have shaped Mary, behind-the-scenes insights from the Matildas' World Cup run...

Lizzy Ballard possesses a dangerous power she struggles to control: the ability to inflict fatal brain injuries using only the power of her mind. Haunted by the memory of her victims, she's on the run from the authorities and from the scientist who created her power, Louise Mortensen. Lizzy has been hiding out in Arizona with her mentor, ex-con Philip Castillo. She's earning money at the poker tables of Phoenix, thanks to an unexpected ability bestowed by a drug stolen from Mortensen: temporary clairvoyance. When Lizzy and Philip decide to head east to Lizzy's hometown of Philadelphia, she's overjoyed to be reunited with her godfather, Owen McNally, and his brother Andy.

Life Lyrics are insightful reflections that leave you with the sensation that Melody has reached into your heart, held your feelings in her hands, and then lets her pen tell your story, and often hers.