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“…The full list of green gurus include: Ray Anderson , founder and chairman of Interface Inc, one of TIME Magazine's 'Heroes of the Environment' James Cameron , founder of Executive Director and Vice-Chairman of Climate Change Capital (CCC) Paul Dickinson , CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project John Elkington , founding partner and director of Volans, co-founder of SustainAbility, world authority of sustainable development, author of The Green Consumer Guide John Grant , author of The Green Marketing Manifesto, frequent conference speaker and prolific blogger Denis Hayes , President and CEO of The Bullitt Foundation, Chair of the International Earth Day Network Gary Hirshberg , President and Chief Executive Officer of Stonyfield Farm, the world's largest producer of organic yogurt Tony Juniper , former Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (FoE), environmental campaigner, author and commentator Professor Sir David King , Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford Amory B. …”

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“…Coverage includes • Accelerating the “flow of value” to customers, with a transparent backlog, PowerPoint Storyboarding, VS 2012 feedback requests, and a “usability lab” right into your customers’ hands • Driving quality upstream to uncover hidden architectural patterns, ensure cleaner code, fix multiple recurring “cloned” bugs at once, ensure the definition of done with continuous integration and deployment in a reliable build process • Eliminating “no repro” bugs with VS 2012’s six powerful mechanisms for more accurate fault identification and use of virtualized test environments • Using Scrum or other Agile methods with Process Templates effectively across distributed teams in large organization by automating burndowns and dashboards to identify “early warning signals” of emerging problems with quality or maintainability • Staying in the groove by storing the state of your work and environment with shelvesets, to let you handle interruptions smoothly • Leveraging VS 2012’s new support for multiple Microsoft and open source unit testing frameworks in your IDE and continuous integration pipeline • Performing exploratory testing to uncover bugs in surprising places and testing immersive Windows 8 apps • Rapidly improving team development and collaboration with the hosted Team Foundation Service Whatever your development role, this book will help you apply modern software development practices using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 to focus on what really matters: building soft­ware that begins delivering exceptional value sooner and keeps delighting customers far into the future…”

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