Using Agile methods, you can bring far greater innovation, value, and quality to any data warehousing (DW), business intelligence (BI), or analytics project. However, conventional Agile methods must be carefully adapted to address the unique characteristics of DW/BI projects. In Agile Analytics, Agile pioneer Ken Collier shows how to do just that. Collier introduces platform-agnostic Agile solutions for integrating infrastructures consisting of diverse operational, legacy, and specialty systems that mix commercial and custom code. Using working examples, he shows how to manage analytics development teams with widely diverse skill sets and how to support enormous and fast-growing data volumes. Collier’s techniques offer optimal value whether your projects involve “back-end” data management, “front-end” business analysis, or both. <ul>
<li>Part I focuses on Agile project management techniques and delivery team coordination, introducing core practices that shape the way your Agile DW/BI project community can collaborate toward success</li> <li>Part II presents technical methods for enabling continuous delivery of business value at production-quality levels, including evolving superior designs; test-driven DW development; version control; and project automation</li> </ul> Collier brings together proven solutions you can apply right now—whether you’re an IT decision-maker, data warehouse professional, database administrator, business intelligence specialist, or database developer. With his help, you can mitigate project risk, improve business alignment, achieve better results—and have fun along the way.

Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (Agile Software Development Series)

Business & Money

Collier, Ken

Management & Leadership

Addison-Wesley Professional

Texas is in a bit of a dilemma―it is a rapidly growing state saddled with a constitution that was written by conservative farmers in 1876. Texas’s government struggles to meet the needs of an increasingly diversified population and the challenges of an economy driven by large multi-national corporations, many on the cutting edge of the information age. How has Texas developed and flourished over the years, but failed to fully respond to these changes? 
Lone Star Politics explicitly focuses on the disconnect between the outsized myth of Texas with its legendary political history and the reality of the state’s day-to-day governance to help explain who gets what resources and how they are distributed. The engaging and accessible writing style makes this a book that students of all levels will actually want to read. And when they do, they’ll get both description and analysis, a balance of institutions and behavior, as well as comparisons of Texas with other states. 
"Texas vs. _______" feature boxes use narrative, tabular data, and critical thinking questions to show how Texas works differently from the rest of the country, while "Texas Legends" boxes show how certain celebrated figures and institutions influence Texans and their identity as well as shape Texas politics today. 
The chapter structure fits perfectly with Barbour and Wright’s American Government text, Keeping the Republic. Discounted packages and customized versions are available―please contact us at collegesales@cqpress.com to learn more.

Lone Star Politics: Tradition and Transformation in Texas

History

Galatas, Steven E.

Harrelson-Stephens, Julie D.

Americas

CQ Press

Social work with rural peoples: Theory & practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

New Star Books

Social workers choosing to work in smaller towns or rural communities face a different set of conditions and concerns from their city colleagues.  Ken Collier wrote his nowclassic text Social Work with Rural Peoples, for those social workers, whether they are just starting out or already in the field.  The gist of Colliers genuinely radical book is that for the rural social worker to be effective, she must be able to identify with the struggles of the people she is trying to help  that trying to maintain “professional”, “ objective” distance will merely ensure that the social worker becomes part of the problem rather than part of the solution.  For the social worker in a smaller community, “Whose side are you one?” is the most important question to be answered before any effective work can be done. It is an indictment of the slow pace of progress against the societal problems facing rural populations that a third edition of Social Work with Rural Peoples is necessary.

Social workers choosing to work in smaller towns or rural communities face a different set of conditions and concerns from their city colleagues. Ken Collier wrote his nowclassic text Social Work with Rural Peoples, for those social workers, whether they are just starting out or already in the field. The gist of Colliers genuinely radical book is that for the rural social worker to be effective, she must be able to identify with the struggles of the people she is trying to help  that trying to maintain “professional”, “ objective” distance will merely ensure that the social worker becomes part of the problem rather than part of the solution. For the social worker in a smaller community, “Whose side are you one?” is the most important question to be answered before any effective work can be done. It is an indictment of the slow pace of progress against the societal problems facing rural populations that a third edition of Social Work with Rural Peoples is necessary.

Social Work With Rural Peoples: Theory & Practice

Sociology

Ken Collier draws upon the world–system theory developed by Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein to shed light on the welfare state and its apparent demise. The welfare state, Collier argues, grew up in the heyday of the anti–state to meet the needs of both capital and labour. The role of the state is changing, and the nation–state itself is headed for obsolescence, notions captured in the concept of "the end of the welfare state". But even in this aftermath, the welfare state’s functions will still need to be carried out; and Collier reminds us that the traditional welfare state was fought for, and won, by workers themselves.The future will see new struggles in new contexts, but the key is to grasp the forces at work in the world that are bringing about the changes we are seeing. After the Welfare State makes some potent suggestions about where these struggles will be taking place.

After the Welfare State

Politics & Government

In Texas, myth often clashes with the reality of everyday government. Explore the state′s rich political tradition with Lone Star Politics as the author team explains who gets what and how.\nUtilizing a comparative approach, the authors set Texas in context with other states′ constitutions, policymaking, electoral practices, and institutions as they delve into the evolution of its politics. Critical thinking questions and unvarnished "Winners and Losers" discussions guide students toward understanding Texas government and assessing the state′s political landscape. The highly anticipated Seventh Edition includes coverage of the state′s response to the COVID pandemic, brand new chapter-level learning objectives, updated demographic and immigration statistics, and new Discussion Starter questions to help in-class discussion on critical policy debates.\nAlso available as a digital option (courseware). Learn more about Lone Star Politics - Vantage Digital Option, Seventh Edition [ISBN: 978-1-0718-2048-3]

Explore the rich political tradition of Texas with the Eighth Edition of Lone Star Politics. Utilizing a comparative approach, the authors set Texas in context with other states′ constitutions, policymaking, electoral practices, and institutions as they delve into the evolution of its politics.\nAlso available in SAGE Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality SAGE textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Learn more about 978-1-0718-9069-1, Lone Star Politics - Vantage Learning Platform, Eighth Edition.

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Books by Collier, Ken

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Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (Agile Software Development Series)

Lone Star Politics: Tradition and Transformation in Texas

Social work with rural peoples: Theory & practice

Social work with rural peoples: Theory & practice

Social Work With Rural Peoples: Theory & Practice

After the Welfare State

Lone Star Politics: Tradition and Transformation in Texas

Lone Star Politics: Tradition and Transformation in Texas

Lone Star Politics: Tradition and Transformation in Texas

Lone Star Politics: Tradition and Transformation in Texas