Luis Goncalves

Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the "what" and "why" of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager, product manager or facilitator then this book helps you to discover and apply new ways to do Valuable Agile Retrospectives with your teams. With plenty of exercises you can develop your own personal Retrospectives Toolbox to become more proficient in doing retrospectives and get more out of them.

In today's startup ecosystem, 9 out of 10 companies fail. But what if we could flip that statistic on its head? The Unicorn Blueprint presents the Scaleup Methodology, a revolutionary framework for scaling startups. Through seven critical pillars - from digital sales and continuous delivery to productexcellence - this methodology provides a systematic approach to turning promising ventures into billion-dollar unicorns. Drawing from two decades of experience scaling companies across continents, author Luis Gon alves shares battle-tested strategies that work in any market. Whether you're a founder aiming for unicorn status, an investor seeking better returns, or a team member in a scaling startup, this book provides the roadmap you need. You'll learn how to: Build scalable digital sales engines that drive sustainable growthImplement agile practices that maintain speed as you scaleCreate financial systems that enable rather than constrain growthAttract and retain world-class talent in competitive marketsDevelop products that customers genuinely loveDesign an organizational structure that is optimized for scalingDon't let your startup become another statistic. The Unicorn Blueprint gives you the tools, frameworks, and mindset needed to build a billion-dollar company. Your journey to unicorn status starts here.

Are you an executive leader who wants to create efficient and effective change - and be well rewarded for your success? This book provides a step-by-step approach to help you drive fast, consistent internal innovation and allow your business to react positively to any changes in the market. It explains clearly how to create an agile, innovative organisation that can learn from its own mistakes and become a company that people will fight to work for. When you've read this book, you will have: - A step-by-step formula for reacting quickly to any changes in the market - A tool to connect strategy to daily operations - A concept to build a basic change management framework - A technique to measure the impact of software delivery

The definitive guide to sonography in obstetrics and gynecology—thoroughly updated and enhanced by the addition of teaching casesDoody's Core Titles for 2022! This acclaimed guide is a clinically relevant reference text, an atlas, and a teaching/learning resource. Presented in full color and enriched by more than 2,000 illustrations, it expertly examines the full spectrum of disorders and conditions likely to be encountered in gynecologic and maternal-fetal care. You will find expert, all-inclusive coverage of everything from sonographic operating instruments and screening the fetal patient for syndromes and anomalies, to diagnosing the female patient for cysts, infertility, and incontinence. This edition has been updated to include coverage of the latest procedures and diagnostic guidelines for the use of sonography in ob/gyn, including 3D and 4D US and enhanced image processing, contrast enhanced sonography, ultrasound guided fetal therapy, sonographic evaluation of pelvic pain, and much more. The Eighth Edition also features an extensive series of teaching cases. Each case consists of the patient’s medical history, representative US images, cineloop videos, Q&A, and teaching points with references. Fleischer’s Sonography in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Eighth Edition opens with general obstetric sonography, covering such pivotal topics as normal pelvic anatomy and fetal echocardiography, before moving into fetal anomalies and disorders. Risk assessment and therapy, including first trimester screening and amniocentesis, are explored in the next section, while the remaining parts of the book focus on maternal disorders, gynecologic sonography, and the newest complementary imaging modalities.

Este livro resulta do IV EMEP - IV Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Portugu s, organizado pela AOTP - American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese. Este encontro decorreu a 7 e 8 de Agosto de 2015, na Georgetown University em Washington DC. O IV EMEP reuniu professores de Portugu s como L ngua Estrangeira, de Heran a, Materna, bem como tradutores, num di logo interdisciplinar entre todas as especialidades de ensino da l ngua portuguesa.

Fundamentos do ensino de portugu s como l ngua estrangeira oferece um di logo com o trabalho de v rios autores com experi ncias diversas, em pa ses diferentes, e que ensinam portugu s com acesso a mais ou menos recursos, conforme o seu contexto de trabalho. O livro apresenta aspetos essenciais em termos de metodologias e abordagens te ricas do ensino comunicativo, enfatizando os aspetos mais importantes. Oferece muitos exemplos de como colocar essas teorias em pr tica na sala de aula, para que os leitores/instrutores possam escolher como integrar essas ideias nas suas atividades, de acordo com as suas cren as sobre o ensino de portugu s como l ngua estrangeira.

Estas atas re nem vinte e tr s dos trabalhos apresentados no III Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Portugu s, que foi organizado pela American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese nos dias 1 e 2 de agosto de 2014, na Columbia University em New York. A comiss o cient fica, formada por educadores das mais prestigiadas universidades de v rias partes do mundo, selecionou setenta e um trabalhos de entre as cento e sessenta e quatro propostas recebidas.