Software For Your Head
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Software for Your Head
Author: Jim McCarthy
language: en
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Release Date: 2002
Most people have experienced--at least once in their lives--the incomparable thrill of being part of a great team effort. They can remember the unity of purpose they experienced, the powerful passion that inspired them, and the incredible results they achieved. People who have been on a great team can attest that the difference between being on a team with a shared vision and being on a team without one is the difference between joy and misery. In 1996, Jim and Michele McCarthy, after successful careers leading software development teams at Microsoft and elsewhere, set out to discover a set of repeatable group behaviors that would always lead to the formation of a state of shared vision for any team. They hoped for a practical, communicable, and reliable process that could be used to create the best possible teams every time it was applied. They established a hands-on laboratory for the study and teaching of high-performance teamwork. In a controlled simulation environment, their principle research and teaching effort--the McCarthy Software Development BootCamp--challenged dozens of real-world, high-tech teams to produce and deliver a product. Teams were given a product development assignment, and instructed to form a team, envision the product, agree on how to make it, then design, build, and ship it on time. By repeating these simulations time after time, with the new teams building on the learning from previous teams, core practices emerged that were repeatedly successful. These were encoded as patterns and protocols. Software for Your Head is the first publication of the most significant results of the authors' unprecedented five-year investigation into the dynamics of contemporary teams. The information in this book will provide a means for any team to create for itself a compelling state of shared vision. 0201604566B09042001
The Brain, a Galaxy in Your Head
Author: David Fortin
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2025-08-29
The human brain is the most complex object known in the universe. It is said that there are as many stars in the milky way, as there are neurons in the brain. Interestingly, the parallel between the universe and the brain goes further, as the matter density distribution in the universe would resemble that in the brain, no less. This book summarizes the current knowledge on the brain, extending this knowledge into philosophical considerations. It first retraces historical milestones in the discovery of the brain, followed by a detailed and balanced account on current knowledge on the subject. Admittedly, the goal here is to summarize intelligibly the knowledge on the subject without going too much into details. The next step in this odyssey is then to consider more philosophical implications on the brain; hence we will discuss one of the greatest mysteries of all, the consciousness. The last chapter will draw the line between the biological brain and AI, which, we will see, have strictly nothing in common. Finally, we will study the impacts of digital technologies on our brains. This is the perfect guide to familiarise yourself with the marvel within your head, your brain.
Train Your Brain: Teach Yourself
Train your brain to be quicker, fitter and brighter than it's ever been! This book gives you everything you need to get a mental edge, featuring hundreds of puzzles, quizzes and problem-solving games. It also gives you some great advice on how to maximise your mental agility through diet, exercise and the right lifestyle choices, as well as showing you how to put your new, more powerful brain to the test at work, home and play. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors' many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of how to train your brain. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.