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Ever since businesses decided to move from real streets to virtual alleys, there seems to be an increase in both productivity and sales. The rise and success of online businesses made us realize that people are not interested in visiting physical stores anymore, especially when they have the option of buying things or doing business from the comfort of their homes.

The road to becoming a professional scrum master is exciting and challenging. This book gives you a full introduction to the concept of the scrum master. I then walk you step by step through the differences between a scrum master and a traditional project manager. Following this, I will give you tips for improving your effectiveness as a scrum master as well as coaching both product owners and development teams. Along the way, I will give you plenty of examples of the best practices for being a scrum master within agile scrum.

I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a complete introduction to agile. I then walk you step by step through the differences between agile and traditional methods. In today's fast-paced world, I feel that agile methods are crucial for improving your effectiveness whether you are a business owner, product owner, development team, service team or service oriented team. Along the way I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for being an agile practitioner.

Online business and earning passive income just got easier. It is extremely important for businesses to evolve with times and adapt to all the newest trends. In this day and age where everything is Internet oriented, online businesses seem to be booming, and will continue to flourish in the years to come.

Agile product management just got easier. This box set contains two books: Product Owner and Sprint Review.

I am confident that this class will enable you to learn a multitude of skills since it starts by giving you a full introduction to the concept of scrum and agile product development, scrum and agile principles and a host of other valuable information that will give you a full understanding of the topic. I then walk you through the process of understanding your role as a product owner, how your role differs from that of a traditional product manager, how to create products and a lot more.

Agile product management just got easier. This box set includes Scrum: A Cleverly Concise and Agile Guide and Scrum Master: 21 Sprint Problems, Impediments and Solutions.

In this class, you will be given a multitude of proven solutions that you can use to effectively solve common problems, blockers, or impediments and improve the productivity of your agile scrum teams. Delivering complex projects is never a straight line. Therefore, I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a brief introduction to the concept of the sprint. I then talk you one by one through each common (and uncommon) project problem and suggested solutions.

I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a complete introduction and background to the concepts of productivity and time management. I then walk you step by step through the methods used by the most successful people to improve your time management and productivity at work.

This class contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve your sprint and delivery as part of an Agile Scrum team. I am sure you will get value from this because it gives you a complete introduction to the concept of a sprint in Agile Scrum and then takes you step-by-step through carrying out and improving sprints in your team or business from the ground up. It also gives you plenty of examples. It tells you exactly how I have carried out sprints in practice and guides you through some common best practices based on extensive research.

I want to give you my 10-step system to reducing stress and living a happier life. This book goes over three simple areas: health, wealth, and happiness. I believe if you can master these three areas, a lot of the stress in your life will reduce. Habits are the actions that make us who we are. The only way to change your life is to change your daily habits, and this book has 10 of the most effective habits.

Twenty-first-century America finds itself divided between two fairly extreme ideals - Democrats and Republicans. The two sides find it difficult to agree on much of anything, but one thing that they do agree on is that America is headed down a bad road, although they have difficulty determining a common agreement on what that bad road looks like. In his first political book, Randal Schaffer takes a look at some of the places in America where the nation can improve and strive toward the promise of the founders of becoming "one nation".

There are always choices to be made. Just because events change your original goals doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It simply means you now have a different set of choices to make about how you’ll keep moving toward your goals. The power to shape your own life into exactly the way you want it to look is within you. It all comes down to the choices you make.

He lied. He cheated. Whatever he needed to do to make sales and to satiate his desires, he did. Women were his playthings. Until he met Lily Ardat....

On the small island town of Fairfields, Russell Dickie is looking forward to the long summer break ahead of him. Provided his grades are good enough that is. But, there is an evil that is waking up. An evil that wants to get out of its prison below the Dumiere house.

In the USA, fully two thirds of the people are either overweight or obese. And less than five percent of the people who lose weight keep it off for any length of time. In The Diet Fallacies, Al Davis explains not only why this happens, but what the solution is - for you! The whole notion of dieting to lose weight is based on a false paradigm. That paradigm tries to address the symptom of the problem, not the cause.

What would you give for the blessing of your God? What form would you want the blessing to take, and how much would you be willing to sacrifice to get it? In the introductory story of his Shivers collection, Randal Schaffer brings us the story of Josiah Cornwall, a boy on the verge of manhood who must face that question for the first time.

Everyone who writes wants to do it well, but for most people writing is something that takes practice and determination to be able to get the words to flow well and make them easy to read and absorb. Learning to write well requires regular reading and time spent doing writing exercises so that the words are enjoyable, easy for the reader to understand, and of great interest to the reader. Just as with ballgames and other athletics, hard, regular practice will lead to a win or at least a good performance, so it is with writing.

Author and personal trainer David Ortner provides a totally comprehensive guide packed with information on why and how the DASH diet works and how to make it a part of anyone's life. His book contains shopping and cooking guides, meal plans, and tips on maximizing and sticking with the DASH diet for incredible long-term results.

What if you had the power to start creating rituals in your daily life that could benefit you and your health? If you struggle with panic attacks or bad anxiety, this is the book for you. Anxiety is the feeling of major stress in the body, and many people have their own unique style of dealing with it. I have struggled with anxiety for many years. The major cure is creating new rituals every day, and I have given you plenty in this book to create change. You'll discover 100 proven stress-free habits that you can start applying in your life today.