Author: D.H. Coxall
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491880333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Many books have been written of what it was like growing up in east London during the forties, fifties and sixties but the authenticity of this latest east London book is at its best, it tells of what it was like being born into a large family of four brothers, a sister, two half brothers and five half sisters sleeping five to a bed, regular trips to the Pawn Shop on rent day, living on stews, bread pudding and coconut cake, its a roller coast ride of family life, of love, hate, jealousy and tears. Credits to Vestry house museum London borough of Waltham forest for allowing photographs to be in the book.
When the Growing Gets Tough
Author: D.H. Coxall
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491880333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Many books have been written of what it was like growing up in east London during the forties, fifties and sixties but the authenticity of this latest east London book is at its best, it tells of what it was like being born into a large family of four brothers, a sister, two half brothers and five half sisters sleeping five to a bed, regular trips to the Pawn Shop on rent day, living on stews, bread pudding and coconut cake, its a roller coast ride of family life, of love, hate, jealousy and tears. Credits to Vestry house museum London borough of Waltham forest for allowing photographs to be in the book.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491880333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Many books have been written of what it was like growing up in east London during the forties, fifties and sixties but the authenticity of this latest east London book is at its best, it tells of what it was like being born into a large family of four brothers, a sister, two half brothers and five half sisters sleeping five to a bed, regular trips to the Pawn Shop on rent day, living on stews, bread pudding and coconut cake, its a roller coast ride of family life, of love, hate, jealousy and tears. Credits to Vestry house museum London borough of Waltham forest for allowing photographs to be in the book.
The One Year Devotions for Kids #2
Author: Children's Bible Hour
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414380364
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
For 10 years kids have had fun learning about Scripture with The One Year Book of Devotions for Kids series. Now The One Year Book of Devotions for Kids,Volume 2 is available for a new generation of readers. Each day's lesson focuses on a key theme from a Bible story. A contemporary story, application questions, a memory verse, and an action phrase combine to reinforce the theme for each day. A great way to help kids connect with God.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414380364
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
For 10 years kids have had fun learning about Scripture with The One Year Book of Devotions for Kids series. Now The One Year Book of Devotions for Kids,Volume 2 is available for a new generation of readers. Each day's lesson focuses on a key theme from a Bible story. A contemporary story, application questions, a memory verse, and an action phrase combine to reinforce the theme for each day. A great way to help kids connect with God.
What Happens to Our Kids When We Fail to Grow Up
Author: Maggie Hamilton
Publisher: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922711284
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
What Happens to Our Kids When We Fail to Grow Up? by bestselling author Maggie Hamilton, explains how to recognise when the child in us comes out to play, from wanting to be rescued all the time to relying on others to do the heavy lifting. With clear-eyed analysis, Hamilton provides insightful ideas and practical tools to make us less escapist and more resilient, and to better prime our kids for health, happiness and independence in this complex world.
Publisher: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922711284
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
What Happens to Our Kids When We Fail to Grow Up? by bestselling author Maggie Hamilton, explains how to recognise when the child in us comes out to play, from wanting to be rescued all the time to relying on others to do the heavy lifting. With clear-eyed analysis, Hamilton provides insightful ideas and practical tools to make us less escapist and more resilient, and to better prime our kids for health, happiness and independence in this complex world.
Scrum Your Jira!
Author: Clemens Lode
Publisher: Clemens Lode Verlag e.K.
ISBN: 3945586712
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book challenges two illusions that can get in the way of your company’s road to being genuinely Agile: first, that your Scrum is “special,” and second, that you can hide behind project management software. JIRA is powerful—and this book will show you how to use it more effectively—but it makes it easy to forget that the first idea of Agile is: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. This book begins with the origin of Scrum: rugby. Unlike in football or soccer, in rugby, there is a strong team emphasis and few to no roles. This is what makes Scrum different from Waterfall, which is focused on hiring only specialists and then shifting work from one department to the next—a tiresome approach, especially in today’s knowledge-focused industries. Building multidisciplinary teams is a crucial element to achieving an Agile company. Sharing knowledge by working together as a team, removing production phases, and focusing on quick delivery can be achieved. The key is to transform your departments into individual teams that can do everything related to their part of a feature or product. This leads us to the tools. People tend to forget what Scrum is really about. Purposefully not using certain JIRA features to create new stories will help to remedy that situation. There is a great deal that JIRA does (and does not do), compared to the pen-and-paper approach. Two examples are the acceptance criteria and the definition of done. Here, there is often no clear decision made about how to integrate them into JIRA. They exist somewhere in the documentation, or implicitly in people’s heads. But with a plug-in and some workflow programming, we can automate the definition of done elegantly. All the information needed to complete a story in one place: great! With the tools and numbers in order, the focus moves to the team. Often, it is the last (or middle) chain of production. The team is not trusted to deliver the full product. Instead, management makes essential decisions because the best people were moved out of the team into management roles. With Scrum, it is vital to have the team own the product. If this is not done, you will face several tricky issues. One particular topic related to ownership is the sprint (its estimation, and the commitment to it). Not without reason, Scrum was changed a few years ago to replace “commitment” with “forecast.” Striking the right balance between the product owner and the team is crucial. If the team does not own the sprint in its totality, including deciding on its own how to complete it, the team will, consciously or unconsciously, blame the people who meddled with it. Leading the team to make smarter estimations is an excellent way to win over both sides and increase productivity. All that said, and the work done, it is time for delivery, right? Too often, I see that people confuse Scrum sprints with development sprints. Scrum is the business side, to check on you, to communicate with the client, to plan in chunks, etc. But delivery? That can be done at any time. If you ever encounter a team that delivers at the end of the sprint, you will see many Waterfall elements in play. As your projects grow, you will need to add more people and teams. Organizing them in JIRA can be tricky, but there are ways the software can help you to accomplish the task. Finally, there are several ideas relating to your daily Scrum Master routine to help you to do your work better. From psychology to small productivity tips, big things are achieved in small steps. Where does your team stand in terms of Agile? Are you making the most of Scrum? This book was written with an experienced Scrum Masters in mind. It trusts that you already know the basics, so the chapters will jump right into the day-to-day challenges, as well as the global idea of Agile organizations.
Publisher: Clemens Lode Verlag e.K.
ISBN: 3945586712
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This book challenges two illusions that can get in the way of your company’s road to being genuinely Agile: first, that your Scrum is “special,” and second, that you can hide behind project management software. JIRA is powerful—and this book will show you how to use it more effectively—but it makes it easy to forget that the first idea of Agile is: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. This book begins with the origin of Scrum: rugby. Unlike in football or soccer, in rugby, there is a strong team emphasis and few to no roles. This is what makes Scrum different from Waterfall, which is focused on hiring only specialists and then shifting work from one department to the next—a tiresome approach, especially in today’s knowledge-focused industries. Building multidisciplinary teams is a crucial element to achieving an Agile company. Sharing knowledge by working together as a team, removing production phases, and focusing on quick delivery can be achieved. The key is to transform your departments into individual teams that can do everything related to their part of a feature or product. This leads us to the tools. People tend to forget what Scrum is really about. Purposefully not using certain JIRA features to create new stories will help to remedy that situation. There is a great deal that JIRA does (and does not do), compared to the pen-and-paper approach. Two examples are the acceptance criteria and the definition of done. Here, there is often no clear decision made about how to integrate them into JIRA. They exist somewhere in the documentation, or implicitly in people’s heads. But with a plug-in and some workflow programming, we can automate the definition of done elegantly. All the information needed to complete a story in one place: great! With the tools and numbers in order, the focus moves to the team. Often, it is the last (or middle) chain of production. The team is not trusted to deliver the full product. Instead, management makes essential decisions because the best people were moved out of the team into management roles. With Scrum, it is vital to have the team own the product. If this is not done, you will face several tricky issues. One particular topic related to ownership is the sprint (its estimation, and the commitment to it). Not without reason, Scrum was changed a few years ago to replace “commitment” with “forecast.” Striking the right balance between the product owner and the team is crucial. If the team does not own the sprint in its totality, including deciding on its own how to complete it, the team will, consciously or unconsciously, blame the people who meddled with it. Leading the team to make smarter estimations is an excellent way to win over both sides and increase productivity. All that said, and the work done, it is time for delivery, right? Too often, I see that people confuse Scrum sprints with development sprints. Scrum is the business side, to check on you, to communicate with the client, to plan in chunks, etc. But delivery? That can be done at any time. If you ever encounter a team that delivers at the end of the sprint, you will see many Waterfall elements in play. As your projects grow, you will need to add more people and teams. Organizing them in JIRA can be tricky, but there are ways the software can help you to accomplish the task. Finally, there are several ideas relating to your daily Scrum Master routine to help you to do your work better. From psychology to small productivity tips, big things are achieved in small steps. Where does your team stand in terms of Agile? Are you making the most of Scrum? This book was written with an experienced Scrum Masters in mind. It trusts that you already know the basics, so the chapters will jump right into the day-to-day challenges, as well as the global idea of Agile organizations.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Pages : 504
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When Teaching Gets Tough
Author: Allen N. Mendler
Publisher: ASCD
ISBN: 1416613900
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
When Teaching Gets Tough offers practical strategies for teachers who need help sustaining their energy and enthusiasm for teaching. Written with a deep understanding of the issues that teachers face every day, the book also includes sections for administrators who want to help teachers stay at the top of their game.
Publisher: ASCD
ISBN: 1416613900
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
When Teaching Gets Tough offers practical strategies for teachers who need help sustaining their energy and enthusiasm for teaching. Written with a deep understanding of the issues that teachers face every day, the book also includes sections for administrators who want to help teachers stay at the top of their game.
Grow Your Own Vegetables - What, When, Where and How
Author: Dueep Jyot Singh
Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
ISBN: 1370330561
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Table of Contents Introduction Soil Composition Inspecting the Composition of the Soil Proper Tools And Equipment Planning Your Ground Proper Soil Preparation Proper Plot Drainage Proper Digging Process Proper Methods of Sowing Seeds Manure Green Manure Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction It was in 1914 and in the beginning of World War I, when people suffering from the ravages of war decided that they would not go hungry. And that is why when the menfolk were away fighting, the old people, the children and the women decided that they would grow their own vegetables in their own gardens or in every available free space where they could get 4 inches of soil. These gardens were called victory gardens and the produce of these gardens made sure that during the war, absolutely no family starved, there was even enough extra to be sold in the market, and also to be sent to feed the whole British army fighting abroad! So just imagine that every family decided that even if it was living in a city or far away from wide-open spaces and farm area, they could grow their own vegetables, right there, in their suburban houses, on their terraces, balconies, or even in their kitchens. It is surprising to know that by World War II, even though Britain was still very much in the habit of making victory gardens to feed its people, and its army, other countries in the West did not follow this very sensible idea of growing your own food. One wonders why. However, today you can consider yourself on just such an emergency footing. With the world's economic condition being what it is, and not many people bothering much about working their lands to grow food, no wonder they would rather eat unhealthy food, which they buy wholesale in tins and cans, rather than eat healthy nourishing food. Canning your own food to preserve it has been done all over the world for millenniums. So why are we buying foodstuffs, in cans and tins, full of artificial preservatives, fresh off supermarket shelves? I remember a friend of mine visiting a country, which had been hard hit by the Great Depression of 2004. She was surprised to see many people of the city, just getting depressed, because they had lost their jobs, and they expected their government to spoonfeed them and give them money for food and clothing. She said, “why do not the states put these people to work on land and help them grow food, doing something useful for a change, instead of just sitting by the side of the road in a self pitying binge?” I told her that that was not the culture in this particular society. People were used, to having other people take on the responsibilities since childhood, and they were not willing to take on any responsibility on their own, or do anything on their own initiative, because all of that meant going out and working.
Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
ISBN: 1370330561
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Table of Contents Introduction Soil Composition Inspecting the Composition of the Soil Proper Tools And Equipment Planning Your Ground Proper Soil Preparation Proper Plot Drainage Proper Digging Process Proper Methods of Sowing Seeds Manure Green Manure Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction It was in 1914 and in the beginning of World War I, when people suffering from the ravages of war decided that they would not go hungry. And that is why when the menfolk were away fighting, the old people, the children and the women decided that they would grow their own vegetables in their own gardens or in every available free space where they could get 4 inches of soil. These gardens were called victory gardens and the produce of these gardens made sure that during the war, absolutely no family starved, there was even enough extra to be sold in the market, and also to be sent to feed the whole British army fighting abroad! So just imagine that every family decided that even if it was living in a city or far away from wide-open spaces and farm area, they could grow their own vegetables, right there, in their suburban houses, on their terraces, balconies, or even in their kitchens. It is surprising to know that by World War II, even though Britain was still very much in the habit of making victory gardens to feed its people, and its army, other countries in the West did not follow this very sensible idea of growing your own food. One wonders why. However, today you can consider yourself on just such an emergency footing. With the world's economic condition being what it is, and not many people bothering much about working their lands to grow food, no wonder they would rather eat unhealthy food, which they buy wholesale in tins and cans, rather than eat healthy nourishing food. Canning your own food to preserve it has been done all over the world for millenniums. So why are we buying foodstuffs, in cans and tins, full of artificial preservatives, fresh off supermarket shelves? I remember a friend of mine visiting a country, which had been hard hit by the Great Depression of 2004. She was surprised to see many people of the city, just getting depressed, because they had lost their jobs, and they expected their government to spoonfeed them and give them money for food and clothing. She said, “why do not the states put these people to work on land and help them grow food, doing something useful for a change, instead of just sitting by the side of the road in a self pitying binge?” I told her that that was not the culture in this particular society. People were used, to having other people take on the responsibilities since childhood, and they were not willing to take on any responsibility on their own, or do anything on their own initiative, because all of that meant going out and working.
Embrace the Chaos
Author: Bob Miglani
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1609948262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
An accomplished Fortune 50 executive translates for a western audience the lessons he learned from the land of his birth, India. Bob Miglani was stressed out, burnt out, and stuck until he rediscovered the enduring lessons of his childhood: celebrate impermanence, serve others, and move forward no matter what. Bob's message: chaos isn't going away--embrace it!
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1609948262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
An accomplished Fortune 50 executive translates for a western audience the lessons he learned from the land of his birth, India. Bob Miglani was stressed out, burnt out, and stuck until he rediscovered the enduring lessons of his childhood: celebrate impermanence, serve others, and move forward no matter what. Bob's message: chaos isn't going away--embrace it!
25 Vegetables Anyone Can Grow
Author: Ann Brokaw Roe Robbins
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486230290
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Asparagus, beans, beets, broccoli, celery, 20 more. Clearly tells when, where, and how to plant. 32 illus.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486230290
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Asparagus, beans, beets, broccoli, celery, 20 more. Clearly tells when, where, and how to plant. 32 illus.