"Collaboration Explained is a deeply pragmatic book that helps agile practitioners understand and manage complex organizational and team dynamics. As an agile coach, I've found the combination of straightforward advice and colorful anecdotes to be i
Once upon a time,Western opinion leaders found themselves both impressed and frightened by theextraordinary growth rates achieved by a set of Eastern economies.Although those economies werestill substantially poorer and smaller than those of the Wes
This book describes modern tools for data analysis. With the exception of the last chapter, it is concerned with "supervised" methods - those methods in which a sample of cases is available, including values of an outcome variable, and on which one
Cairngorm is the lightweight micro-architecture for Rich Internet Applications built in Flex or AIR. A collaboration of recognized design patterns, Cairngorm exemplifies and encourages best-practices for RIA development advocated by Adobe Consulting
Bill Williams is the manager of the Cisco Storage Operations Team, where he focuses on storage TCO, metrics, and operational efficiencies. Bill joined Cisco Systems, Inc. in 1998 as an ERP systems administrator. In January, 2002, Bill moved to the V
This paper investigates the problem of containment control for coupled harmonic oscillators with multiple leaders under directed topology. Using tools from matrix, graph and stability theories, necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for cou
