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This collection includes the top books to help you implement and master your skills and become an expert in Lean Methodology. The Lean Mastery Collection will revolutionize the way you operate your business. It will help you remove waste and improve speed, optimize your business for increased production for a lower cost.

This book offers an unflinching look at the creative and structural challenges of storytelling in interactive media. Drawing on over 30 years of industry experience, Kelly Vero explores the rich interplay between narrative, design and technology, making the case for why story is foundational to...

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award-winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning from real users into their Agile process.

Are you clueless about coding? Are you lost understanding computer languages? Are you intimidated by the learning curve? Don't be! JavaScript is one of the most common and powerful computer languages around. It is easy to use, easy to understand, and is the driving force behind some of the most popular websites around. Facebook uses it. Google uses it. Netflix uses it, and yes - even Amazon uses it. Would you like to learn how to use it? Take the first step to becoming code savvy with one of the most popular, useful computer languages on the market.

In the competitive job market, the need for SQL developers has increased dramatically over the years, but every “programmer” is still focused on web design or app development. SQL development is the new hidden talent that big companies are looking for that nobody really knows about. This high-paying skill is easy to learn and can guarantee your future, but everyone overlooks it because hardly anyone knows it exists. You can learn SQL in weeks.

The most human-friendly book on machine learning Somewhere buried in all the systems that drive artificial intelligence, you'll find machine learning―the process that allows technology to build knowledge based on data and patterns. Machine Learning For Dummies is an excellent starting point...

There are countless ways to put deep learning to good use: improved medical imaging, credit card fraud detection, long range weather forecasting. PyTorch puts these superpowers in your hands, providing a comfortable Python experience that gets you started quickly and then grows with you as you - and your deep-learning skills - become more sophisticated.

Most companies developing software employ something they call "Agile." But there's widespread misunderstanding of what Agile is and how to use it. If you want to improve your software development team's agility, this comprehensive guidebook's clear, concrete, and detailed guidance explains what to do and why, and when to make trade-offs.

Feel overwhelmed by Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Turn fear into fascination with this guide.

In Next Level Website Design, Greg Merrilees, designer trusted by industry leaders and Hollywood A-listers, reveals the exact system he's used to transform over 2000 websites from expensive digital brochures into revenue-generating machines.

Centralized data warehouses, the long-time de facto standard for housing data for analytics, are rapidly giving way to multi-faceted cloud data platforms. Companies that embrace modern cloud data platforms benefit from an integrated view of their business using all of their data and can take advantage of advanced analytic practices to drive predictions and as yet unimagined data services.

Author Brendan Burns demonstrates how you can adapt existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these long-established patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing the quality of your system. This fully updated second edition includes new chapters on AI inference, AI training, and building robust systems for the real world.

Data analysis is a must-have skill that becomes more essential as the world becomes more data-driven. And one of the most effective ways to dive into data analysis is by learning a programming language. Python is a great place to start. This book explains everything you need to know to start using Python for data analysis.

The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. Bob Galen has written Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching to help alleviate the confusion. The book centers on the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as the competency and skill maturity model to baseline your agile coaching skills against. Its core goal is to “raise the bar” as to what true excellence looks like and to help you establish a personal development and growth plan. Consider this book that maps to coaching badassery, personal growth, and client service.

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. Starting from a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nuts and bolts of directing on the motion capture floor and in the voiceover booth, the book dives deeper with concrete examples from the author’s 25-year career directing seminal games from the early years to today’s blockbusters.

In Untangling AI, founder and Chief AI Officer at Multiplai Tech, Matt Kesby, delivers an incisive roadmap for business leaders interested in assessing where their companies stand in the AI adoption lifecycle and where they want to go. Kesby explains how to rethink your current operational model...

Welcome to the wonderful world of hacking, a seemingly magical world, crafted out of the heart of mystery and wonder, but an oh so very real world where those who hesitate for even just a moment end up in very deep doo-doo, and only the elite have what it takes to survive!

Large language models (LLMs) and generative AI are rapidly changing the healthcare industry. These technologies have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by improving the efficiency, accuracy, and personalization of care. This practical book shows healthcare leaders, researchers, data scientists, and AI engineers the potential of LLMs and generative AI today and in the future, using storytelling and illustrative use cases in healthcare.

In The AI Engineering Bootcamp: Build, Ship, Share, AI Makerspace cofounders "Dr. Greg" Loughnane and Chris "The Wiz" Alexiuk guide the listener through the foundational concepts and code needed to build production-grade Large Language Model (LLM) applications using leading open-source tooling. The book explains the four primary design patterns of generative AI―prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and agentic reasoning―and how to leverage them as first principles to build scalable LLM applications that are high-performance and efficient.

To see a program successfully through to completion, a program manager must break the work down into simpler, smaller pieces and organize it into interdependent tasks…and this book helps you do just that. Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple...