Were there other more important features than the ones we decided to make? Did we find the wrong solution for this feature? Shape Up our way While developing, we also started questioning our own decisions: not spending enough time digging into the real problems.We want to hire people who love solving problems and are passionate about building quality products, and not just turning tickets. Several of us in the product team here at ShiftX has been working in consultancies for many years and have met both the positive and negative sides of frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.Īnd while these classic frameworks might work in bigger companies, we wanted a framework that made the product team feel more ownership. The question is old and has many answers. How should you organize your work when you want to build a digital product as fast, painless, and right for the customer as possible?
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The authors also have greatly expanded their treatment of quality attributes, which remain central to their architecture philosophy-with an entire chapter devoted to each attribute-and broadened their treatment of architectural patterns. Contexts include technical environment, the life cycle of a project, an organization's business profile, and the architect's professional practices. Each cycle shows how architecture influences and is influenced by, a particular context in which architecture plays a critical role. The authors have structured this edition around the concept of architectural influence cycles. Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is crucial to a software organization's business strategy. In a real-world setting, the book once again introduces the concepts and best practices of software architecture-how a software system is structured and how that system's elements are meant to interact. The award-winning and highly influential Software Architecture in Practice, 3rd Edition, has been substantially revised to reflect the latest developments in the field. They contain 10 pages of large, vibrant color portraits with distinctive black backgrounds, and a simple rhyming text appropriate for the youngest children. Each book in the series focuses on a different activity, and explores concepts babies and toddlers can grasp. One of the original best-selling books in the popular "Baby Faces" series, Peek-a- Boo! is the perfect playtime book!īabies are fascinated by other babies and will love to hold these small sturdy books in their hands and gaze at the candid and appealing photographs of all kinds of baby faces. Laughing, crying, pouting, thinking, yawning, and smiling are portrayed in pictures and text, so that babies will learn to connect the expression with the word that describes it. Peek-a-boo! I love you - laughing, crying - or just being you!Īn endearing text and photographs of babies in their many moods give this delightful old game new meaning. But then she lets them, and Aubrey raise Melody while she goes to college and a different life. NEARY: Iris decides to have the baby against her parents' wishes. JACQUELINE WOODSON: What does it mean to be a family, you know? What does it mean to be a family that comes together suddenly through the birth of a child by two children? In an interview with NPR, Woodson said she wanted to explore the idea of family. Her boyfriend Aubrey was raised by a single mom in less comfortable circumstances. NEARY: "Red At The Bone" is the story of two families brought together by this unexpected teenage pregnancy. NEARY: Melody is wearing the same dress her mother Iris was supposed to wear when she turned 16, but Iris never got the chance because, by that time, she was pregnant with Melody. (SOUNDBITE OF PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION'S "DARLING NIKKI") As she heads downstairs to the waiting guests, a band begins playing Prince's "Darling Nikki," minus the raunchy lyrics. LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: As Jacqueline Woodson's novel "Red At The Bone" begins, a young black girl named Melody is getting ready for her 16th birthday party. We asked NPR books and publishing correspondent Lynn Neary to tell us about one of her favorites from 2019. We call it the Book Concierge, and now you can not only browse through more than 300 titles from this year, but also check out the lists from years gone by. You know, for seven years now, your friends here at NPR have been recommending books of the year just in time for the holidays. She published The Inland Whale, a collection of translated Native Californian narratives in 1959. Kroeber began writing professionally late in her life, after her children had grown up. On their return, Alfred encouraged Theodora to continue her graduate work, but she declined, feeling she had too many responsibilities. The Kroebers traveled together to many of Alfred's field sites, including an archaeological dig in Peru, where Theodora worked cataloging specimens. One of her two children with Kroeber was the writer Ursula K. She met anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber during her studies, and married him in 1926. Married in 1920 and widowed in 1923, she began doctoral studies in anthropology at UC Berkeley. She attended the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), for her undergraduate studies, graduating with a major in psychology in 1919, and received a master's degree from the same institution in 1920. Born in Denver, Colorado, Kroeber grew up in the mining town of Telluride, and worked briefly as a nurse. Theodora Kroeber ( / ˈ k r oʊ b ər/ KROH-bər née Theodora Covel Kracaw Ma– July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures. With Rolan's help, Talia will learn to master her unique mental abilities of telepathy and empathy, and will grow from an uncertain and inexperienced Herald trainee to become the most important Herald of all: the Queen's Own. Companions like Rolan are mystical horse-like beings with powers beyond imagining-including the power to sense an awakening potential for special talents of the mind in certain young men and women, like Talia. The Arrows trilogy tells the story of Talia, a daughter of the repressive Holderfolk, who is Chosen by the immortal Companion Rolan to become one of the legendary Heralds of Valdemar. Available in a single volume for the first time, Mercedes Lackey's debut trilogy of Valdemar! The Complete Arrows Trilogy contains the three extraordinary novels that launched Mercedes Lackey's remarkable career and sparked the imaginations of millions of readers across the world. Lacking many friends, Willow instead hangs out with her cool older cousin, Devin. Willow, the protagonist of Ashwood, is a young teen somewhat outcast from her peers because of her weirdness and Lolita style. Of course it's also got its fair share of frightening imagery, mounting dread, and dangerous enemies. What a great foray back into the horror genre! Ashwood is one of those psychological thrillers where the scariest thing is not knowing what's real and what isn't. I'm so glad I finally did get around to reading it, though. I requested a copy of this book from the author for review about 6 months ago and finally got around to reading it. Nevertheless, Newton preferred the corpuscular theory of light, with which he is usually associated, because of its explanatory value for certain optical phenomena and because it a llowed him to link the action of gross bodies with the action of light. His discovery of periodicity in Newton's rings, which would later prove to be so useful to Thomas Young, led Newton to postulate that periodicity was a fundamental property either of light waves or of waves associated with light. The book summarized Newton's discoveries and theories concerning light and color: the spectrum of the sunlight, the degrees of refraction associated with different colors, the color circle (the first in the history of color theory), the invention of the reflecting telescope the first workable theory of the rainbow, and experiments on what would later be called "interference effects" in conjunction with Newton's rings. Unlike most of Newton's works, Opticks was originally published in English, with the Latin version following in 1706. Isaac Newton published Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures in London in 1704. She would learn that both the dark side of her spirit and light were equally important. They would teach her to embrace the dragon that resided within. They were the family that she had always been destined to find. She'd been saved in so many ways by the Ankh. He introduced her to a partially immortal family. After many years lost in places void of humanity, Grey found her. She had been reborn in a place far worse than any version of hell, one could imagine. It had seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. They'd planned to hitchhike across the country. They were all tired of allowing someone else to control their lives. When it came time to leave the last home she'd been at for a few years, she decided to run away with a few of the older ones. There had only been a few that felt right, but either she'd outgrown them or perhaps. Lexy had been living in group homes and foster care as long as she could remember. She was taken from her mother's womb as she slipped away into her next life. Lexy had come quietly and subserviently into the world, born to a mother, in a coma during her gestation. Alexandria Abrelle was the name that had appeared on her birth certificate. They have a mother and a father or perhaps only one of those two. They calm down and manage to find a way to fit into society. Some people are born into this world kicking and screaming. Ava’s mission to find that book and its enigmatic author takes her on a quest that unravels the secrets of her past and offers her and Maggie the chance to remake their lives. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood-one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely deaths of her sister and mother.Īlternating with Ava’s story is that of her troubled daughter, Maggie, who, living in Paris, descends into a destructive relationship with an older man. I have never belonged to a book club but find the concept here fascinating - each member of this book club picks the book that matters most to them and then everyone reads it. The group’s goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. The Book That Matters Most What could be better than a book by Ann Hood about books One of my favorite authors does not disappoint. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle.Īva’s twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. |