Emily Nave

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If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process is the complete, single-source reference for your bookshelf or digital library.

Ruby's widely admired ease of use has a downside: Too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution.

If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it better in CoffeeScript. And, since CoffeeScript "compiles down" to JavaScript, your code will fit neatly into virtually any web environment.

Are you one of the thousands of IT professionals being asked to make Scrum succeed in their organizations? Do you know where to start?

Even "Nooglers" (new Google employees) ask it as soon as they walk out of orientation: How does Google test software? Here's your chance to get the inside scoop.