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Tim A. Majchrzak - Improving Software Testing: Technical and Organizational DevelopmentsPublished: 2012-02-03 | ISBN: 3642274633 | PDF | 178 pages | 2.52 MBSoftware is continuously increasing in complexity. Paradigmatic shifts and new development frameworks make it easier to implement software – but not to test it. Software testing remains to be a topic with many open questions with regard to both technical low-level aspects and to the organizational embedding of testing. However, a desired level of software quality cannot be achieved by either choosing a technical procedure or by optimizing testing processes. In fact, it requires a holistic approach.This Brief summarizes the current knowledge of software testing and introduces three current research approaches. The base of knowledge is presented comprehensively in scope but concise in length; thereby the volume can be used as a reference. Research is highlighted from different points of view. Firstly, progress on developing a tool for automated test case generation (TCG) based on a program’s structure is introduced. Secondly, results from a project with industry partners on testing best practices are highlighted. Thirdly, embedding testing into e-assessment of programming exercises is described.No another mirrors, please! >>> Read RULES>>> Download many interesting free eBooks HERE <<<FilePostTurboBit

Mahendra Ramsinghani "The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies" ISBN: 0470874449 | 2011 | EPUB, MOBI | 432 pages | 2,5 + 2,9 MB The definitive guide to demystifying the venture capital business, The Business of Venture Capital covers the entire spectrum of this field, from raising funds and structuring investments to assessing exit pathways. It is the first book of its kind to focus on the four critical pillars of the venture capital business raising the fund, sourcing and structuring investments, creating value as a board member, and finally, leading investments to exits. Written by a practitioner for practitioners, the book provides the necessary breadth and depth, simplifies the jargon, and balances the analytical logic with experiential wisdom. Starting with a Foreword by Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), this important guide includes insights and perspectives from leading experts. The Business of Venture Capital: -Covers the process of raising the venture fund, including identifying and assessing the Limited Partner universe; fund due-diligence criteria; and fund investment terms in Part One -Discusses the investment process, including sourcing investment opportunities; conducting due diligence and negotiating investment terms; adding value as a board member; and exploring exit pathways in Part Two -Offers insights, anecdotes, and wisdom from the experiences of best-in-class practitioners -Includes interviews conducted by Leading Limited Partners/Fund-of-Funds with Credit Suisse, Top Tier Capital Partners, Grove Street Advisors, Rho Capital, Pension Fund Managers, and Family Office Managers -Features the insights of over twenty-five leading venture capital practitioners, frequently featured on Forbes' Midas List of top venture capitalists, including Frank Caufield (cofounder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers), David Cowan (Bessemer Venture Partners), Todd Dagres (Spark Capital), Promod Haque (Norwest Venture Partners), Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Mitch Lasky (Benchmark Capital), John Jarve (Menlo Ventures), Terry McGuire (Polaris Capital and former NVCA chair), Bryan Roberts (Venrock), and Bob Nelsen (ARCH Venture Partners) Those aspiring to raise a fund, pursue a career in venture capital, or simply understand the art of investing can benefit from this book. The companion website offers various tools such as GP Fund Due Diligence Checklist, Investment Due Diligence Checklist, and more, as well as external links to industry white papers and other industry guidelines. EPUB Filepost MOBI Filepost

Corey Rosenbloom "The Complete Trading Course: Price Patterns, Strategies, Setups, and Execution Tactics" ISBN: 0470594594 | 2011 | EPUB, MOBI | 312 pages | 3,2 + 4 MB A step-by-step approach to analyzing markets and making informed trading decisions. The Complete Trading Course provides aspiring traders with a detailed description of methods to analyze markets, spot profitable trading opportunities, and execute trades properly. Using a variety of approaches—such as Candlesticks, Elliott Wave, Dow Theory, and others—this book shows you how these methods overlap to identify tradable moments in the markets. Author Corey Rosenbloom skillfully explains how to identify trades based on price trend, momentum, and volatility—and how to make decisions confidently and maintain that confidence throughout the trade. The Complete Trading Course goes beyond basic strategies to reveal how to assess your edge—the specifics of trade execution tactics geared to your unique personality—and then incorporate your experiences, stage in life, risk-tolerance, and individual psychological make-up into a lifetime of learning. By creating this unique approach, you'll learn to progress month to month and then year to year as a developing trader. No one book, indicator, or seminar can teach you all you need to know to be a successful trader, but this timely guide lays the foundation upon which to build a lifelong trading career. EPUB Filepost MOBI Filepost

Richard Heinberg "The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality" ISBN: 0865716951 | 2011 EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 336 pages | 2 + 3,5 + 4 MB Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits. Richard Heinberg’s latest landmark work goes to the heart of the ongoing financial crisis, explaining how and why it occurred, and what we must do to avert the worst potential outcomes. Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it shows why growth is being blocked by three factors:Resource depletion Environmental impacts Crushing levels of debtThese converging limits will force us to re-evaluate cherished economic theories and to reinvent money and commerce. The End of Growth describes what policy makers, communities, and families can do to build a new economy that operates within Earth’s budget of energy and resources. We can thrive during the transition if we set goals that promote human and environmental well-being, rather than continuing to pursue the now-unattainable prize of ever-expanding GDP. EPUB Filepost MOBI Filepost PDF Filepost

Top Secret Executive Resumes: Create the Perfect Resume for the Best Top-Level Positions By Steve Provenzano 2011 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 1435460405 | PDF | 1 MB With more than 20 years as a Certified Professional Resume Writer and more than 100,000 career books sold worldwide, Steven Provenzano shows you how to create a high-impact resume that develops and markets your skills and abilities to shorten your executive career search. This one-of-a-kind book reveals the secrets used by expert resume writers worldwide. You'll learn how Mr. Provenzano has helped thousands of clients identify, develop and market their abilities to the fullest extent and quickly increase their income. Packed with more than 150 pages of real-life resume examples, each with documented results, you'll learn all the essential points of persuasive, keyword resume writing, cover letter writing, design and format. The author includes the latest tips and strategies on networking, interview techniques and leveraging your LinkedIn page. There are before-and-after resume examples, a military conversion resume, and newly written articles from experts related to self-motivation, networking and how to answer some of the toughest interview questions. In today's job market, competition for the best, top-paying positions is intense, and the need for an excellent resume has never been greater. It's essential to create a high-impact resume that markets your skills - your personal brand - with impact and precision to stand above the crowd. You can't get the position you want without an interview, and you can't get an interview without a great resume. This is the only resume book that includes a free resume review by the author.filepost

Internet Your Way To a New Job: How to Really Find a Job Online, 3 edition By Alison Doyle 2011 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 1600051995 | PDF | 0.7 MB This is the third edition of this popular book. Just a few years ago, you could upload your resume to one of the top jobs sites, click a few times to apply for some jobs, and consider your job search well underway. Today, that isn't enough. The job market is becoming increasingly competitive. Hiring managers are overwhelmed with applications and are looking at new and different ways to recruit online. Hiring has changed and so has job searching. It's more complicated than it used to be and job seekers need to be prepared to use all the online job search tools to their advantage. Online job searching often seems like it can be a complicated endeavor. It doesn't have to be -- there are tips and tricks you can use to make the process run smoothly and simply. Alison Doyle will provide you with everything you need to know on how to build your career and find a new job. Goals for the reader: This book will provide you what you need to know and step you through the process of online job searching, professional branding, social and professional networking, and career building with uncomplicated advice, tips, and techniques on how to effectively find a new job and grow your career.filepost

Full Mind Control by Steve G. Jones Publisher: Statbrook Associates 2009 | ISBN: n/a | Language English | Audio in MP3/128Kbps | 160 MBExpanded Mind Utilization – Here you’ll discover how to use your mind in ways you never have before.The Secret To Mind Enhancement – Here I’ll show you the real key to enabling your mind to open to progression.Elevated Meditation - Learn how to improve your meditation experiences so they can have a profound impact on your life.Phase One Self Hypnosis - Learn how to use self-hypnosis to enhance the level at which your mind operates.Memory Enhancement – Here I’ll show you how you can improve your memory so you can recall valuable data whenever necessary.Elevated Learning Absorption – Here you’ll discover the secret to retaining any new found knowledge that you acquire so you can better leverage it in life.Creative Sleep – Discover how improving the way you sleep will further enhance the way your mind operates.Verbal Power - Discover the power of words and how to use them to your advantage.Visualization Mastery – Here I’ll show you the key to mastering the art of visualization.Imagination Utilization – Learn how to use your imagination to make the impossible a reality.Achieving Clarity – here I’ll not only show you how to achieve mental clarity but you will also minimize the one thing that compromises people’s health more than anything else.Attracting Optimal Health – Learn how to use your mind to reach perfect health.Mind Control For Lovers – Here I’ll show you an intimate exercise that you can use with your significant other.ESP Development – Learn how to use your mind as instrument of psychic power.Next Level Mind Control – Here we’ll cover the next phase of mind control and how it will drastically change your life.Enhancing The Minds of Others – Here you’ll learn the methods to help others sharpen their mental saws.Raising Self Worth – Discover the secret to boosting your self-esteem through mental power.Mind Control In Business – Here I’ll show you how you can apply your new found knowledge in the business world.>>If YoU WaNt MoRe - WeLcOmE tO mY AH BlOg!<<Thanks to original uploader! Download from FilePostor DepositFiles>>:: NO PASSWORD ::<<

Brain Power Control by Steve G. Jones Publisher: Statbrook Associates 2009 | ISBN: n/a | Language English | Audio in MP3/128Kbps | 152 MBConsisting of Four Empowering Modules, this system will reveal:Essential Brain Nutrition – While certain foods strengthen your brain, others weaken it. Here you’ll learn which foods to avoid and which one’s to make part of your daily regimen.The Secret Element Needed For A Healthy Brain – Without this element, your brain is sure to burn out.Three Simple Ways To Strengthen Your Brain Using Physical Fitness – These 3 simple steps will ensure your brain gets healthy doing everyday, easy exercises.Seven Powerful Brain Techniques To Give Your Brain A Workout – Aside from the physical exercise, you need mental exercise or your brain will get out of shape. Here I will disclose the most effective mental exercises known to man.Five Simple Steps To Keep Your Brain Healthy – As all true successes can only be measured by results that last, you will discover the exact methods to sustain success.>>If YoU WaNt MoRe - WeLcOmE tO mY AH BlOg!<<Thanks to original uploader! Download from FilePostor DepositFiles>>:: NO PASSWORD ::<<

Jamshid Gharajedaghi, "Systems Thinking, Third Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture" 2011| ISBN-10: 0123859158 | PDF | 376 pages | 4,2 MB In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. The current edition has been updated to include all new chapters on self-organizing systems, Holistic, Operational, and Design thinking. Gharajedaghi covers recent crises in financial systems and job markets, the housing bubble, and environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking. A companion website to accompany the book is available at www.interactdesign.com. Four NEW chapters on self-organizing systems, holistic thinking, operational thinking, and design thinkingCovers the recent crises in financial systems and job markets globally, the housing bubble, and the environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking filepost

Corporate Governance Best Practices: Strategies for Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Organizations By Frederick D. Lipman, L.Keith LipmanEnglish | 2006 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0470043792 | PDF | 1 MBGood corporate governance helps to prevent corporate scandals, fraud, and potential civil and criminal liability from affecting your organization. With the increased scrutiny and attention to corporate governance matters in today's environment, every employee in an organization has a stake in the governance process, especially those responsible for auditing policies and procedures. Corporate Governance Best Practices is an easy-to-use handbook that outlines best practices for not only public companies but also for private and not-for-profit organizations.Author and renowned corporate governance expert Frederick Lipman provides a comprehensive guide to the best practices for all organizations, with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies to educate them in all aspects of corporate governance. Every chapter includes case studies profiling examples of best practices in all kinds of companies—public, not-for-profit, and private—and analyzes the historic mistakes made by companies such as Enron and WorldCom to explore where these once successful companies went wrong. L. Keith Lipman, an expert on information technology, provides the IT department of every organization with best corporate governance practices in the areas of IT content and security, and a checklist of questions for every board of directors to ask its IT department.Useful for boards of directors, high-level executives, IT professionals, and both internal and independent auditors, this valuable reference handbook is the only book in the area of corporate governance that provides a detailed analysis of this critical area with essential information on:•How to monitor and change the corporate culture •The responsibilities of public company audit committees •The best practices for boards of not-for-profit organizations •Corporate governance practices for family-owned businessesCorporate Governance Best Practices provides a wealth of resources, including the NASDAQ and NYSE stock market corporate governance guidelines, auditor independence rules, a summary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, disclosure rules for audit committees, and much more.To start download click HERE:Filepostshareflare