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The one-stop guide to modern networking for every VMware administrator, engineer, and architect

Now that virtualization has blurred the lines between networking and servers, many VMware specialists need a stronger understanding of networks than they may have gained in earlier IT roles. Networking for VMware Administrators fills this crucial knowledge gap. Writing for VMware professionals, Christopher Wahl and Steve Pantol illuminate the core concepts of modern networking, and show how to apply them in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting any virtualized network environment.

Drawing on their extensive experience with a wide range of virtual network environments, the authors address physical networking, switching, storage networking, and several leading virtualization scenarios, including converged infrastructure.

Teaching through relevant examples, they focus on foundational concepts and features that will be valuable for years to come. To support rapid learning and mastery, they present clear learning objectives, questions, problems, a complete glossary, and extensive up-to-date references.

Coverage includes:
The absolute basics: network models, layers, and interfaces, and why they matter
Building networks that are less complex, more modular, and fully interoperable
Improving your virtual network stack: tips, tricks, and techniques for avoiding common pitfalls
Collaborating more effectively with network and storage professionals
Understanding Ethernet, Advanced Layer 2, Layer 3, and modern converged infrastructure
Mastering virtual switching and understanding how it differs from physical switching
Designing and operating vSphere standard and distributed switching
Working with third-party switches, including Cisco Nexus 1000V
Creating powerful, resilient virtual networks to handle critical storage network traffic
Deploying rackmount servers with 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet
Virtualizing blade servers with converged traffic and virtual NICs

Christopher Wahl has acquired well over a decade of IT experience in enterprise infrastructure design, implementation, and administration. He has provided architectural and engineering expertise in a variety of virtualization, data center, and private cloud based engagements while working with high performance technical teams in tiered data center environments. He currently holds the title of Senior Technical Architect at Ahead, a consulting firm based out of Chicago.
Steve Pantol has spent the last 14 years wearing various technical hats, with the last seven or so focused on assorted VMware technologies. He is a Senior Technical Architect at Ahead, working to build better datacenters and drive adoption of cloud technologies.

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Practical Guide to Business Process Reengineering Using IDEFO, The

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This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright 1998).

This book answers the call for a concise, comprehensive introduction to IDEF0 and its application in business process reengineering (BPR) efforts.

Here is all the essential information about the IDEF0 method, the function analysis portion of the Integration Definition (IDEF) Methodsits definition, basic rules of usage (including the standard language syntax and semantics as contained in the Federal Standard), and lessons learned from many years of application in the real world.

The book features examples based on actual models of commercial clients and government agencies. By studying IDEF0 models, readers learn how the method might be applied to the various aspects of enterprise analysis or systems analysis and what goals and benefits are reasonable to expect from its application.

IDEF0 is at the heart of the DoD's version of BPR. In the private sector, industrial organizations that may have initially discovered IDEF through one or more government contracts have adopted it as a method for use with their own corporate BPR efforts.

Use this book to apply the techniques of this increasingly popular member of the IDEF family of methods!

Three Major Elements of the Method:

1. The concepts are at the foundation of IDEF0, and they preserve the logical sense and intention of the model. These concepts answer why one approach is used over another in the application of IDEF0, and they provide the experienced analyst with the rationale for when it may be necessary to bend the rules.

2. The language of IDEF0 is the analyst's means of describing the activities of an enterprise to other analysts, readers, enterprise management and staff, and others. The language is written in graphical box-and-arrow notation on diagram forms that are structured to form IDEF0 models.

3. The pragmatics of IDEF0 provide the engineering procedures and the do's and don'ts for the use of IDEF0. In many cases, the pragmatics are so closely tied to the concepts and language that they are inseparable, and analysts who have attempted to use IDEF0 without employing the pragmatics have typically been unsuccessful. The most common misuses of IDEF0 are illustrated to show the kinds of problems that can occur if the pragmatics are not followed.

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This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright 1998, 1994).

In a fundamentally new approach, Complete Systems Analysis teaches everything you need to know about analyzing systems: the methods, the models, the techniques, and more.

A definitive text on modern systems analysis techniques is combined with an extensive case study to give readers hands-on experience in completing an actual analysis project.

Readers proceed through each step of a full-scale analysis project, analyzing the complex requirements of a television stations airtime programming department. Each phase of the case study and each exercise in the textbook section is thoroughly explained in separate review and answer sections.

An innovative Trail Guide systeminspired by the difficulty levels marked on ski trailsencourages readers to follow a sequence that suits their skill level. Beginners follow the full trail while experienced analysts fill in gaps in their training, refresh their understanding of key concepts, and practice their skills. Managers review key concepts but can skip the detailed work with models.

The book shows how analysis is used for object-oriented implementation, and how event-response data flow models and entity-relationship data models are complementary, not competing, models.

Complete Systems Analysis adapts to the readers needs and provides an appropriate learning path for the beginner, with a more direct route for experienced analysts wanting to make better use of todays techniques. Since its initial publication in 1994 as a two-volume set in hardcover, this highly acclaimed textreleased in 1998 as a single, softcover volumehas served as a course text in classes throughout the world.

Topics include
Analysis Models Data Flow Diagrams Data Viewpoint Data Models Leveled Data Flow Diagrams Current Physical Viewpoint Building the Data Dictionary Strategy: Focusing on the Essentials Identifying Events Modeling an Event Response Writing Mini Specifications CRUD Check Modeling New Requirements New Physical Viewpoint Object-Oriented Viewpoint Strategy: Toward Implementation

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This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright 2003).

If Theres No Risk On Your Next Project, Dont Do It.
Greater risk brings greater reward, especially in software development. A company that runs away from risk will soon find itself lagging behind its more adventurous competition. By ignoring the threat of negative outcomesin the name of positive thinking or a can-do attitudesoftware managers drive their organizations into the ground.

In Waltzing with Bears, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Listerthe best-selling authors of Peoplewareshow readers how to identify and embrace worthwhile risks. Developers are then set free to push the limits.

The authors present the benefits of risk management, including that it makes aggressive risk-taking possible, protects management from getting blindsided, provides minimum-cost downside protection, reveals invisible transfers of responsibility, isolates the failure of a subproject.

Readers are armed with strategies for confronting the most common risks that software projects face: schedule flaws, requirements inflation, turnover, specification breakdown, and under-performance.

Waltzing with Bears will help you mitigate the risksbefore they turn into project-killing problems. Risks are out thereand they should be therebut there is a way to manage them.

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Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques

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Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques is a detailed overview of many of the important algorithms and techniques used in video game programming today. Designed for programmers who are familiar with object-oriented programming and basic data structures, this book focuses on practical concepts that see actual use in the game industry.

Sanjay Madhav takes a unique platform- and framework-agnostic approach that will help develop virtually any game, in any genre, with any language or framework. He presents the fundamental techniques for working with 2D and 3D graphics, physics, artificial intelligence, cameras, and much more.

Each concept is illuminated with pseudocode that will be intuitive to any C#, Java, or C++ programmer, and has been refined and proven in Madhavs game programming courses at the University of Southern California. Review questions after each chapter help solidify the most important concepts before moving on.

Madhav concludes with a detailed analysis of two complete games: a 2D iOS side-scroller (written in Objective-Cusing cocos2d) and a 3D PC/Mac/Linux tower defense game (written in C# using XNA/ MonoGame). These games illustrate many of the algorithms and techniques covered in the earlier chapters, and the full source code is available at gamealgorithms.net.

Coverage includes
Game time management, speed control, and ensuring consistency on diverse hardware Essential 2D graphics techniques for modern mobile gaming Vectors, matrices, and linear algebra for 3D games 3D graphics including coordinate spaces, lighting and shading, z-buffering, and quaternions Handling todays wide array of digital and analog inputs Sound systems including sound events, 3D audio, and digital signal processing Fundamentals of game physics, including collision detection and numeric integration Cameras: first-person, follow, spline, and more Artificial intelligence: pathfinding, state-based behaviors, and strategy/planning User interfaces including menu systems and heads-up displays Scripting and text-based data files: when, how, and where to use them Basics of networked games including protocols and network topology

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Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering

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This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright 2000).

Derek Hatley and Imtiaz Pirbhaiauthors of Strategies for Real-Time System Specificationjoin with influential consultant Peter Hruschka to present a much anticipated update to their widely implemented Hatley/Pirbhai methods.

Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering introduces a new approach that is particularly useful for multidisciplinary system development: It applies equally well to all technologies and thereby provides a common language for developers in widely differing disciplines.

The Hatley-Pirbhai-Hruschka approach (H/H/P) has another important feature: the coexistence of the requirements and architecture methods and of the corresponding models they produce. These two models are kept separate, but the approach fully records their ongoing and changing interrelationships. This feature is missing from virtually all other system and software development methods and from CASE tools that only automate the requirements model.

System managers, system architects, system engineers, and managers and engineers in all of the diverse engineering technologies will benefit from this comprehensive, pragmatic text. In addition to its models of requirements and architecture and of the development process itself, the book uses in-depth case studies of a hospital monitoring system and of a multidisciplinary groundwater analysis system to illustrate the principles.

Compatibility Between the H/H/P Methods and the UML:

The Hatley/Pirbhai architecture and requirements methodsdescribed in Strategies for Real-Time System Specificationhave been widely used for almost two decades in system and software development. Now known as the Hatley/Hruschka/Pirbhai (H/H/P) methods, they have always been compatible with object-oriented software techniques, such as the UML, by defining architectural elements as classes, objects, messages, inheritance relationships, and so on. In Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering, that compatibility is made more specific through the addition of message diagrams, inheritance diagrams, and new notations that go with them. In addition, state charts, while never excluded, are now specifically included as a representation of sequential machines.

These additions make definition of the system/software boundary even more straightforward, while retaining the clear separation of requirements and design at the system levels that is a hallmark of the H/H/P methodsnot shared by most OO techniques. Once the transition to software is made, the developer is free to continue using the H/H/P methods, or to use the UML or any other software-specific technique.

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Derek Hatley, Peter Hruschka, Imtiaz Pirbhai

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Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management, The

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Optimize the Interaction between Supply Chain Processes, Tools, and Technologies

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Master supply chain management concepts, components, principles, processes, interactions, and best practices: all the knowledge you need to start designing, implementing, and managing modern supply chains!  The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management brings together all the knowledge you need to help companies gain competitive advantage from supply chains. Co-written by a leading supply chain expert and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this reference provides up-to-the-minute insight into the roles of supply chain management in improving customer service, reducing costs, and improving financial performance. Clearly and concisely, it introduces modern supply chain management best practices that have been proven to work in organizations of many sizes, types, and industries. For all supply chain and operations managers and students; and for other professionals who either practice in the field or work closely with practitioners to solve business problems.

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CSCMP, Brian J. Gibson, Joe B. Hanna, C. Clifford Defee, Haozhe Chen

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C for Programmers with an Introduction to C11

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The professional programmers Deitel guide to procedural programming in C through 130 working code examples

Written for programmers with a background in high-level language programming, this book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching the C language and the C Standard Library. The book presents the concepts in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, code highlighting, code walkthroughs and program outputs. The book features approximately 5,000 lines of proven C code and hundreds of savvy tips that will help you build robust applications.

Start with an introduction to C, then rapidly move on to more advanced topics, including building custom data structures, the Standard Library, select features of the new C11 standard such as multithreading to help you write high-performance applications for todays multicore systems, and secure C programming sections that show you how to write software that is more robust and less vulnerable. Youll enjoy the Deitels classic treatment of procedural programming. When youre finished, youll have everything you need to start building industrial-strength C applications.

Practical, example-rich coverage of:
C programming fundamentals Compiling and debugging with GNU gcc and gdb, and Visual C++ Key new C11 standard features: Type generic expressions, anonymous structures and unions, memory alignment, enhanced Unicode support, _Static_assert, quick_exit and at_quick_exit, _Noreturn function specifier, C11 headers C11 multithreading for enhanced performance on todays multicore systems Secure C Programming sections Data structures, searching and sorting Order of evaluation issues, preprocessor Designated initializers, compound literals, bool type, complex numbers, variable-length arrays, restricted pointers, type generic math, inline functions, and more. Visit www.deitel.com
For information on Deitels Dive Into Series programming training courses delivered at organizations worldwide visit www.deitel.com/training or write to deitel@deitel.com Download code examples To receive updates for this book, subscribe to the free DEITEL BUZZ ONLINE e-mail newsletter at www.deitel.com/newsletter/subscribe.html Join the Deitel social networking communities on Facebook at facebook.com/DeitelFan, Twitter @deitel, LinkedIn at bit.ly/DeitelLinkedIn and Google+TM at gplus.to/Deitel

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Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement, The

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Principles and Strategies for Establishing Efficient, Effective, and Sustainable Supply Management Operations

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Drive sustainable supply chain competitive advantage through more effective supplier management and procurement: reduce costs, improve quality, and deliver better service for all customers. This is the most authoritative, complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing supply management and procurement processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for all relevant processes, strategies, and tactics. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement covers all this, and more: </p>          Basic supply management concepts, purposes, and goals            Linkages between procurement and other business functions            Day-to-day transactional and long-term strategic activities            Category analysis, supplier selection, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and performance evaluation            Principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable operations, from sourcing teams to supplier rationalization            Technology for spend analysis, competitive bidding, eProcurement, eSourcing, auctions/reverse auctions, contract compliance, performance management, and more            Requirements and challenges of global sourcing, including insource vs. outsource decisions; TCO analysis; risk management; negotiations, and supplier contract compliance     Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks

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Definitive Guide to Order Fulfillment and Customer Service, The

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Principles and Strategies for Planning, Organizing, and Managing Fulfillment and Service Operations

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This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain order fulfillment and customer service processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute knowledge and best practices for all facets of order fulfillment and customer service process management, from initial customer inquiry through post sales service and support. CSCMP and contributor Stanley Fawcett introduce crucial concepts ranging from customer order cycles to available-to-promise and supply chain RFID to global order capture networks.

The Definitive Guide to Order Fulfillment and Customer Service imparts a deep understanding of each crucial process, helping readers optimize your most important customer contacts. Coverage includes:
Basic concepts of order fulfillment and customer service, and their essential roles in meeting customer expectations Key elements and processes in order fulfillment and customer service, and interactions amongst them Principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable order fulfillment and customer service processes The critical role of technology in managing order fulfillment and customer service processes Requirements and challenges of global order fulfillment and customer service processes Best practices for assessing the performance of order fulfillment and customer service processes using standard metrics and frameworks For all supply chain and operations managers, students, and other business professionals and decision-makers who are concerned with order fulfillment or customer service.

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CSCMP, Stanley E. Fawcett, Amydee M. Fawcett

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Want to write iOS apps or desktop Mac applications? This introduction to programming and the Objective-C language is your first step on the journey from someone who uses apps to someone who writes them.
Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Objective-C Bootcamp, Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide covers C, Objective-C, and the common programming idioms that enable developers to make the most of Apple technologies. Compatible with Xcode 5, iOS 7, and OS X Mavericks (10.9), this guide features short chapters and an engaging style to keep you motivated and moving forward. At the same time, it encourages you to think critically as a programmer.

Here are some of the topics covered:
Using Xcode, Apples documentation, and other tools Programming basics: variables, loops, functions, etc. Objects, classes, methods, and messages Pointers, addresses, and memory management with ARC Properties and Key-Value Coding (KVC) Class extensions Categories Classes from the Foundation framework Blocks Delegation, target-action, and notification design patterns Key-Value Observing (KVO) Runtime basics

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Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services

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This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for cost-efficiently and effectively moving goods between sellers and buyers. CSCMP and Thomas Goldsby introduce crucial concepts including transportation modes, execution, and control; outsourcing, modal and carrier selection, and 3PLs; TMS technologies; ocean shipping, international air, customs, and regulation; and much more. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Transportation helps you optimize all facets of transportation, one of the highest-cost, highest-impact areas of supply chain management. Coverage includes:

Basic transportation management concepts and their essential roles in demand fulfillment Key elements, processes, and interactions of transportation operations management Design principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable transportation operations The critical role of technology in managing transportation operations and product flows Requirements and challenges of planning and moving goods between countries Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks

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CSCMP, Thomas J. Goldsby, Deepak Iyengar, Shashank Rao

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Definitive Guide to Manufacturing and Service Operations, The

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Master the Strategies and Tactics for Planning, Organizing, and Managing How Products and Services Are Produced

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Master and apply both the technical and behavioral skills you need to succeed in manufacturing or service operations, anywhere in your supply chain! Now, theres an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice manufacturing and service operations in any organization. Co-authored by a leading expert alongside the the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this reference describes the planning, organizing, controlling, directing, motivating and coordinating functions used to produce goods or services. The Definitive Guide to Manufacturing and Service Operations covers long-term strategic decisions; mid-term tactical decisions; and even short-term operational decisions. Topics discussed include: </p>          Basic manufacturing and service operations concepts, purposes, terminology, roles, and goals            Key elements, processes, and interactions, including facility, material, and labor requirements planning; scheduling; and continuous process and quality improvement            Principles, strategies and planning for efficient, effective, and sustainable operations: facilities, production, processes, layout, lead capacity, technology, personnel, measurement, compensation, sustainability, and more            Technology for better manufacturing and service operations: MRP II, service systems, ERP, planning, execution, and cost management.            Global manufacturing and service operations: LCCs, logistics, labor, financial issues, decisionmaking, contract performance, risk management, and regulation            Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks: KPIs, tradeoff analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and exception management

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Managing the Storage and Handling of Materials and Products in the Supply Chain

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This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain warehousing processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it explains each warehousing option, basic warehousing storage and handling operations, strategic planning, and the effects of warehousing design and service decisions on total logistics costs and customer service. This reference introduces crucial concepts including product handling, labor management, warehouse support, and extended value chain processes, facility ownership, planning, and strategy decisions; materials handling; warehouse management systems; Auto-ID, AGVs, and much more. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Warehousing helps you optimize all facets of warehousing, one of the most pivotal areas of supply chain management. Coverage includes: </p>          Basic warehousing management concepts and their essential role in demand fulfillment            Key elements, processes, and interactions in warehousing operations management            Principles and strategies for effectively planning and managing warehouse operations            Principles and strategies for designing materials handling operations in warehousing facilities            Critical roles of technology in managing warehouse operations and product flows     Best practices for assessing the performance of warehousing operations using standard metrics and frameworks

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Definitive Guide to Supply Chain Best Practices, The

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Comprehensive Lessons and Cases in Effective SCM

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The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) brings together state-of-the-art supply chain management case studies to help readers systematically identify challenges, evaluate solutions, plan implementation, and prepare for the future. Commissioned by CSCMP, these realistic, fact-based cases are written by world-renowned experts, and reflect the full complexity of modern supply chain/demand chain/logistics management. Coverage includes: supply chain collaboration, advanced forecasting, management of inventory through cash-to-cash cycles, transportation optimization, and many other topics. Readers are effectively challenged to evaluate each scenario and identify the responses most likely to succeed. As they do so, they will encounter the fields newest best practices. Even more important, they will learn how to integrate a wide array of functional activities, from forecasting and demand planning through order fulfillment and post-sales service. Using these cases, students and professionals will become familiar with a far wider range of scenarios  enabling them to solve more problems, succeed in new environments, and prepare for faster career growth. This book will be a valuable resource for operations managers, supply chain managers, production and inventory managers and planners, demand planners and managers, supply managers, logistics managers, transportation managers, students in graduate programs in OM and SCM, and professionals in related certification programs.

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Definitive Guide to Inventory Management, The

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Principles and Strategies for the Efficient Flow of Inventory across the Supply Chain

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Master and apply both the technical and behavioral skills you need to succeed in any inventory management role or function! Now, theres an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice inventory management in any organization. Authored by world-class experts in collaboration with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this text illuminates planning, organizing, controlling, directing, motivating and coordinating all the activities used to efficiently control product flow. The Definitive Guide to Inventory Management covers long-term strategic decisions; mid-term tactical decisions; and even short-term operational decisions. Topics discussed include:</p>          Basic inventory management goals, roles, concepts, purposes, and terminology            Key inventory management elements, processes, and interactions            Principles/strategies for establishing efficient and effective inventory flows            Using technology in inventory planning and management            New approaches to inventory reduction: postponement, vendor-managed inventories, cross-docking, and quick response systems            Trade-offs between inventory and transportation costs, including carrying costs            Requirements and challenges of global inventory management            Best practices, metrics, and frameworks for assessing inventory management performance

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CSCMP, Matthew A. Waller, Terry L. Esper

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Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations

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Creating and delivering a successful presentation today often means breaking through the noise and allowing your audience to focus on you and your message. You can have a great impact using simple design choices in your presentations but you just need to know where to start.

Here to guide you on your journey is best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds, whose design wisdom and advice will open your eyes and give you new ways to look at your slides. Filled with practical insights and plenty of examples, youll learn how to design effective presentations that contain text, data, color, images, and video. Once the design guidelines are established, you will benefit from Garrs years of experience as a master presenter and learn how you can achieve an overall harmony and balance using the powerful tenet of simplicity. Not only will you discover how to design your slides for more professional-looking presentations, youll learn to communicate more clearly and will accomplish the goal of making a stronger, more lasting connection with your audience.

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Learn the fine art and craft of digital lighting and rendering from an experienced pro whose lighting work youve seen in blockbuster films such as Monsters University, Toy Story 3, Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille, and The Incredibles. Jeremy Birn draws on his wealth of industry and teaching experience to provide a thoroughly updated edition of what has become the standard guide to digital lighting and rendering. Using beautiful, full-color examples; a friendly, clear teaching style; and a slew of case studies and tutorials, Jeremy demonstrates how to create strategic lighting for just about any project using any 3D application. By explaining not just how to use various lighting techniques but why, this guide provides the grounding graphics pros need to master Hollywood lighting techniques.
Learn how to pinpoint problems with your lighting and solve them to produce professional results.
Break scenes into passes and layers, and convincingly composite 3D models into real-world environments.
Adopt a linear workflow for more convincing lighting, global illumination, and compositing.
Apply advanced rendering techniques using subsurface scattering, physically based lighting, caustics, and high dynamic range images.
Build a bigger bag of tricks by learning old-school approaches such as tweaking shadow maps, faking GI with occlusion passes, and other cheats and tricks that save render time.
Develop realistic materials and shaders, and design and assign detailed texture maps to your models.
Mimic photographic exposure and cinematography techniques to simulate real-life f-stops, lens breathing, bokeh effects, and Kelvin color temperatures for more photorealistic renderings.
Learn to light characters and environments in different situations: day or night; natural or artificial lights; indoors or outdoors; and in clear air, thick atmosphere, or under water.
Understand production pipelines at visual effects and animation studios, and prepare for collaborative work on large lighting teams
Get the latest insights into industry trends, and how to develop your lighting reel and get a job in an increasingly competitive industry.
Download many of the 3D scenes used in this book from the authors website to try texturing, lighting, and compositing on your own

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A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication

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Feeling uninspired? That shouldnt keep you from creating great design work. Design is not about luck, inspiration, or personal expression. Design is a disciplined pursuit aimed at producing sensible, functional work for clients. In The Design Method, youll learn how to create quality design work on a regular basis that consistently pleases your clients using the same method that Creative Director Eric Karjaluoto uses at his creative agency, smashLAB. The Design Method will teach you a proven, repeatable process for solving visual communication problems.

In this book, you will learn: - Ways to conduct research and gain insight into your clients situations - A process for establishing strategies and plans for your projects - How to develop a cohesive concept and visual direction for each client/job - An iterative approach to prototype, test, refine, and produce effective design - Techniques for presenting and documenting creative work - Tips for making your design studio operate efficiently and consistently

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Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as Peopleware. The unique insight of this longtime best seller is that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. Theyre not easy issues; but solve them, and youll maximize your chances of success.

Peopleware has long been one of my two favorite books on software engineering. Its underlying strength is its base of immense real experience, much of it quantified. Many, many varied projects have been reflected on and distilled; but what we are given is not just lifeless distillate, but vivid examples from which we share the authors inductions. Their premise is right: most software project problems are sociological, not technological. The insights on team jelling and work environment have changed my thinking and teaching. The third edition adds strength to strength.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Kenan Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Author of The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design

Peopleware is the one book that everyone who runs a software team needs to read and reread once a year. In the quarter century since the first edition appeared, it has become more important, not less, to think about the social and human issues in software development. This is the only way were going to make more humane, productive workplaces. Buy it, read it, and keep a stock on hand in the office supply closet.
Joel Spolsky, Co-founder, Stack Overflow

When a book about a field as volatile as software design and use extends to a third edition, you can be sure that the authors write of deep principle, of the fundamental causes for what we readers experience, and not of the surface that everyone recognizes. And to bring people, actual human beings, into the mix! How excellent. How rare. The authors have made this third edition, with its additions, entirely terrific.
Lee Devin and Rob Austin, Co-authors of The Soul of Design and Artful Making

For this third edition, the authors have added six new chapters and updated the text throughout, bringing it in line with todays development environments and challenges. For example, the book now discusses pathologies of leadership that hadnt previously been judged to be pathological; an evolving culture of meetings; hybrid teams made up of people from seemingly incompatible generations; and a growing awareness that some of our most common tools are more like anchors than propellers. Anyone who needs to manage a software project or software organization will find invaluable advice throughout the book.