Bøger af Jonathan Cook

Let's face it-from a management perspective the only thing that matters is results. All the plans, processes and techniques in play matter little if they do not achieve results! The software development process is no different. All that matters to management and the customer/client is a working product, delivered on-time and on-budget. But frankly, this rarely occurs. Projects are constantly late and over budget. No matter what software development method is employed, the results seem to be the same: Poor! Are your developers less productive and dispirited? Are your project managers constantly overloading your resources? Are bugs carried through to the final builds and into production? This Executive Report will show you a different way to achieve quality results. It will guide you through a 30 day action plan to realign your team into the creative AND productive team it can and should be.

The Agile development method promises to improve your project outcomes dramatically. Agile may promise to improve your productivity, reduce your costs, speed your projects to completion, make your staff happy and your customers even happier. Agile may promise to rock your world. However, those promises may not fit the real world. Agile may (or may not) improve your outcomes, but you need to balance possible improved outcomes with unanticipated costs, both financial and, for you and your teams, personal. This report will help you understand and anticipate the costs of Agile that are rarely understood. With this information you can improve your current Agile implementation or better prepare your team and processes for the shift to a new Agile implementation.

What does Israel hope to achieve with its recent withdrawal from Gaza and the building of a 700km wall around the West Bank? Jonathan Cook, who has reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Second Intifada, presents a lucid account of the Jewish state's motives. The heart of the issue, he argues, is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians - Israel's own Palestinian citizens and those in the Occupied Territories - become a majority. Inevitable comparisons with apartheid in South Africa will be drawn. The book charts Israel's increasingly desperate responses to its predicament: -- military repression of Palestinian dissent on both sides of the Green Line -- accusations that Israel's Palestinian citizens and the Palestinian Authority are secretly conspiring to subvert the Jewish state from within -- a ban on marriages between Israel's Palestinian population and Palestinians living under occupation to prevent a right of return 'through the back door' -- the redrawing of the Green Line to create an expanded, fortress state where only Jewish blood and Jewish religion count Ultimately, concludes the author, these abuses will lead to a third, far deadlier intifada.

Software development presents a unique challenge to the project manager. Software Development is a discipline that is based more on art and craft rather than discrete engineering processes. However, it will be rare indeed for a management team to admit to this. It is nearly universally concluded that software development is an engineering discipline subject to the normal and well defined processes of project management. It is assumed that project managers can apply all of the standard techniques of resource loading, scheduling, teams, work breakdown structure, etc. as they do for non-software development projects. Unfortunately, even well trained project managers, working in a well defined development method will rarely be able to track a software development project accurately and, in turn, manage the project tasks, packages, streams, etc. to a successful completion. As is often the result, the project turns into a jumbled mess of sub-projects and sub teams where blame and accusation follow. It doesn't have to be this way. Let this report help you fine tune the process for success.

In any business money is the bottom line. We may hate to admit it and we may do our best to avoid the reality that money is the fuel that powers and the grease that lubricates the wheels of business. In today's tech savvy businesses the potential benefits of home offices and remote workers to sales, to customer support, to worker satisfaction, and ultimately to the bottom line, cannot be overlooked. But is it right for your business? Does a home office environment, even for just a portion of your business, make sense? The hype is out on the wires, but where do you find the answers based on real experience? The Author has real, long term experience in setting up, and working as, remote resources in virtual environments. This report can help you decide upon, and implement, a home office environment for your business.

The use of medicinal plants for the management of diseases and promoting health is termed as medical herbalism. One of the fundamental principles of herbal medicine is that the effect of the whole plant is more potent than its parts. Therefore, the active ingredients are not derived and isolated in herbal medicine. The major focus of herbal medicine is to return the body to a state of balance wherein the body can naturally recover from ailments. Ginger, garlic, Echinacea and dong quai are some of the herbs which are commonly used within this field. Herbal medicine is produced in a variety of forms such as tablets, powders, capsules, teas and extracts. This book discusses the fundamentals as well as modern approaches of medical herbalism. Also included herein is a detailed explanation of the various concepts and applications of herbal medicine. The extensive content of this book provides the readers with a thorough understanding of the subject.

Palestine is disappearing - fulfilling the objectives of Israel's founding fathers. This book exposes the dismal failure of the Israeli left, human rights organisations and the global media to hold Israel to account. It is a controversial analysis of one of the conflicts in contemporary world politics.

Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel's key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel's own.*BR* *BR*This concise and clearly argued book makes the case that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middle East neatly chimed with Bush's objectives in the 'war on terror'. *BR**BR*Examining a host of related issues, from the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to the role of Big Oil and the demonisation of the Arab world, Cook argues that the current chaos in the Middle East is the objective of the Bush administration - a policy that is equally beneficial to Israel.

This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority.*BR**BR*The book charts Israel's increasingly desperate responses to its predicament including military repression of Palestinian dissent on both sides of the Green Line; accusations that Israel's Palestinian citizens and the Palestinian Authority are secretly conspiring to subvert the Jewish state from within; a ban on marriages between Israel's Palestinian population and Palestinians living under occupation to prevent a right of return 'through the back door'; the redrawing of the Green Line to create an expanded, fortress state where only Jewish blood and Jewish religion count.