Manjit Singh

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Highly detailed and elaborate, this book is written explicitly for the purpose of professionals who work with gypsum in various technical and consumer-centric fields. It emphasises technical specifications of gypsum and associated products focusing on particular applications in industries such as construction, decoration, medicine, dentistry, architecture, chemical product manufacturing, arts, cooking, cosmetics, and agriculture. The book takes into account different chemical, physical, and biological characteristics and the relevance of gypsum and its extended applications.

Establish business agility in your organization by applying industry-proven scaling strategies from popular Scrum frameworks such as Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Scrum@Scale, Nexus, Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile, and SAFeKey FeaturesLearn how to be Agile at scale by implementing best practicesUnderstand how Lean-Agile practices are incorporated in Disciplined Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)Customize Scrum and Lean-Agile practices to support portfolio and large product development needsBook DescriptionScaled Scrum and Lean-Agile practices provide essential strategies to address large and complex product development challenges not addressed in traditional Scrum. This Scrum/ Lean-Agile handbook provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven scaling strategies that enable business agility on an enterprise scale. Free of marketing hype or vendor bias, this book helps you decide which practices best fit your situation. You'll start with an introduction to Scrum as a lightweight software development framework and then explore common approaches to scaling it for more complex development scenarios. The book will then guide you through systems theory, lean development, and the application of holistic thinking to more complex software and system development activities. Throughout, you'll learn how to support multiple teams working in collaboration to develop large and complex products and explore how to manage cross-team integration, dependency, and synchronization issues. Later, you'll learn how to improve enterprise operational efficiency across value creation and value delivery activities, before discovering how to align product portfolio investments with corporate strategies. By the end of this Scrum book, you and your product teams will be able to get the most value out of Agile at scale, even in complex cyber-physical system development environments.What you will learnUnderstand the limitations of traditional Scrum practicesExplore the roles and responsibilities in a scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile development environmentTailor your Scrum approach to support portfolio and large product development needsApply systems thinking to evaluate the impacts of changes in the interdependent parts of a larger development and delivery systemScale Scrum practices at both the program and portfolio levels of managementUnderstand how DevOps, test automation, and CI/CD capabilities help in scaling Scrum practicesWho this book is forExecutives, product owners, Scrum masters, development team members, and other stakeholders who need to learn how to scale Agile to support large, complex projects and large enterprise portfolios and programs will find this book useful. A basic understanding of the values and principles of Agile and the Scrum-based framework for Agile development practices is required before you get started with this Agile Scrum book.

From my childhood I have been deeply touched by human problems. I saw that people who strictly followed their religion and faith were generally dishonest. This led me to search for the nature of God. I often wondered how people who believed in Holy Scriptures indulged in dishonesty. I also saw that something in me always made me act honestly, stand up to wrongs of others, and question the purpose of life. Gradually I perceived answers to human problems and discovered the nature of Truth (God). There arose a deep urge to put across the Truth to all people to enable them to put an end to their sufferings. This urge has resulted in the writing of this book.What is written cannot be really understood by the mind, as it is incapable of understanding the Truth. It is only the inner self that can comprehend it. However, if the reading of these pages can stir a human soul by making it question existing values (of the mind) its purpose is served. When Buddha realized the Truth he went into quietude and spoke nothing for a long while. His disciples asked him why he did not talk about the Truth that he had realized. He said, "Those who see the Truth need not be told about it, while those who do not see the Truth will not understand it." There is always a difficulty in putting across the Truth, which is given many interpretations over the ages. However, it can be perceived by 'living from within'. If the soul can be touched it will start on the journey to end problems and, when the soul becomes free, the Truth will be seen.