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Refactoring has shown its value in various development projects, aiding software professionals in enhancing system designs, maintainability, extensibility, and performance. For the first time, leading agile methodologist Scott Ambler and consultant Pramodkumar Sadalage present refactoring techniques tailored for database systems. They illustrate how minor adjustments to table structures, data, stored procedures, and triggers can significantly improve any database design without altering semantics. This guide enables you to evolve database schemas alongside source code, enhancing effectiveness in iterative, agile methodologies. Covering essential concepts of database refactoring, the authors provide practical solutions to real-world challenges. Through comprehensive examples, they guide you in refactoring both simple standalone applications and complex multi-application scenarios. You will master the tasks involved in updating database schemas and learn best practices for implementing refactorings in intricate production environments. The latter half of the book systematically addresses five major categories of database refactorings, focusing on improving database structure, data quality, and referential integrity, along with refactoring architectures and methods. With extensive examples using Oracle and Java, the techniques are easily adaptable to other languages and databases. By applying these methods, you can minimize was

Practical, Step-by-Step Scrum Techniques for Improving Processes, Actions, and Outcomes The widespread adoption and success of Scrum can be attributed in large part to its perceived intuitiveness and simplicity. But when new Scrum practitioners attempt to apply Scrum theory and high-level approaches in actual projects, they often find it surprisingly difficult. In Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Scrum expert Ilan Goldstein helps you translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum challenges your formal training never warned you about. Drawing on his extensive agile experience in a wide range of projects and environments, Goldstein presents thirty proven, flexible shortcuts for optimizing Scrum processes, actions, and outcomes. Each shortcut walks you through applying a Scrum approach to achieve a tangible output. These easy-to-digest, actionable patterns address a broad range of topics including getting started, quality and metrics, team members and roles, managing stakeholders, estimation, continuous improvement and much more. Whatever your role, Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners will help you take your Scrum skills to the next level and achieve better results in any project you participate in.