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This compilation of the best thinking about adoption by both historical and current authorities reveals a vital, ever-changing practice affecting the lives of millions of people around the globe. Adoption is one of humanity's oldest and most widespread customs - it has been practiced by every culture in the world throughout history. Yet our ideas about adoption remain in constant flux. Should we allow single parents to adopt? What about same-sex couples? Are transracial adoptions successful? Should we seal adoption records? This volume provides the latest answers and the best thinking on these controversies. The ancient practice of adoption has changed significantly through history. In colonial America, parents adopted out their unwanted children - those who were "rude, stubborn, and unruly" - to other families. Today, Americans go abroad looking for children to adopt, and have adopted more than a quarter million internationally. "Adoption: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition" not only traces the development of expert thinking about adoption, but also looks at both sides of the latest controversial issues. Should adoptions be open or closed? Should the government regulate adoptions more closely - or less? This updated second edition offers an international perspective with a new chapter on how countries outside the United States provide adoption services. This work is an indispensable resource for those thinking about adoption or researching its history.
Proven Patterns and Techniques for Succeeding with Agile in Your Organization Agile methods promise to help you create software that delivers far more business value--and do it faster, at lower cost, and with less pain. However, many organizations struggle with implementation and leveraging these methods to their full benefit. In this book, Amr Elssamadisy identifies the powerful lessons that have been learned about successfully moving to agile and distills them into 30 proven agile adoption patterns. Elssamadisy walks you through the process of defining your optimal agile adoption strategy with case studies and hands-on exercises that illuminate the key points. He systematically examines the most common obstacles to agile implementation, identifying proven solutions. You'll learn where to start, how to choose the best agile practices for your business and technical environment, and how to adopt agility incrementally, building on steadily growing success. Next, he presents the definitive agile adoption pattern reference: all the information you need to implement the strategy that you've already defined. Utilizing the classic pattern format, he explains each agile solution in its proper context, revealing why it works--and how to make the most of it. The pattern reference prepares you to * Understand the core drivers, principles, and values associated with agile success * Tightly focus development on delivering business value--and recognize the "smells" of a project headed off track * Gain rapid, effective feedback practices: iteration, kickoff and stand-up meetings, demos, retrospectives, and much more * Foster team development: co-location, self-organization, cross-functional roles, and how to bring the customer aboard * Facilitate technical tasks and processes: testing, refactoring, continuous integration, simple design, collective code ownership, and pair programming * Act as an effective coach, learning to engage the community and promote learning * Integrate "clusters" of agile practices that work exceptionally well together Agile Adoption Patterns will help you whether you're planning your first agile project, trying to improve your next project, or evangelizing agility throughout your organization. This actionable advice is designed to work with any agile method, from XP and Scrum to Crystal Clear and Lean. The practical insights will make you more effective in any agile project role: as leader, developer, architect, or customer. Foreword xxiii & xxvi Preface xxvii Acknowledgments xxxiii About the Author xxxvii Part 1: Thoughts about Software Development 1 Chapter 1: Learning Is the Bottleneck 3 Chapter 2: Personal Agility for Potent Agile Adoption 13 Part 2: Crafting an Agile Adoption Strategy 21 Chapter 3: Business Value 23 Chapter 4: Smells 29 Chapter 5: Adopting Agile Practices 37 Part 3: The Pattern Catalog 53 Chapter 6: The Patterns of Agile Practice Adoption 55 Chapter 7: Goal 61 Chapter 8: Cycle 65 Part 3.1 : Feedback Practices 69 Chapter 9: Iteration 71 Chapter 10: Kickoff Meeting 77 Chapter 11: Backlog 81 Chapter 12: Planning Poker 87 Chapter 13: Stand-Up Meeting 93 Chapter 14: Done State 99 Chapter 15: Demo 103 Chapter 16: Retrospective 109 Chapter 17: Release Often 115 Chapter 18: Co-Located Team 119 Chapter 19: Self-Organizing Team 125 Chapter 20: Cross-Functional Team 131 Chapter 21: Customer Part of Team 137 Chapter 22: Evocative Document 143 Chapter 23: User Story 149 Chapter 24: Use Case 153 Chapter 25: Information Radiator 157 Part 3.2: Technical Practices 161 Chapter 26: Automated Developer Tests 163 Chapter 27: Test-Last Development 173 Chapter 28: Test-First Development 177 Chapter 29: Refactoring 183 Chapter 30: Continuous Integration 189 Chapter 31: Simple Design 197 Chapter 32: Functional Tests 203 Chapter 33: Collective Code Ownership 219 Chapter 34: Pair Programming 223 Part 3.3: Supporting Practices 229 Chapter 35: Coach 231 Chapter 36: Engage the Community 235 Chapter 37: Reading Circle 239 Chapter 38: Workshop 245 Chapter 39: Classroom Training 249 Part 3.4 : The Clusters 255 Chapter 40: Agile Iteration 257 Chapter 41: Communication Cluster 263 Chapter 42: Evolutionary Design 269 Chapter 43: Test-Driven Development 277 Chapter 44: Test-Driven Requirements 285 Part 4: Case Studies 293 Chapter 45: BabyCenter 295 Chapter 46: Company X 305 Part 5: Appendices 321 Appendix A: Pattern to Business Value Mappings 323 Appendix B: Pattern-to-Smell Mappings 325 Appendix C: Getting the Most from Agile Practice Patterns 327 Appendix D: Further Reading 331 Bibliography 333 Index 339
I gamle dage sagde man, at børn kom med storken. Det passer selvfølgelig ikke. Men det er til gengæld rigtigt, at nogle børn kommer med en flyvemaskine. Hvor kommer DU fra? er historien, om dengang Andrea blev adopteret fra Colombia til Danmark. Bogen giver svar på børns spørgsmål om, hvad det vil sige at blive adopteret.
20 børn og unge mellem 9-21 år fra mange forskellige
oprindelseslande har skrevet åbenhjertigt om deres liv som
adopterede. Om dagliglivets små og store glæder og genvordigheder.
Om de særlige vilkår nogle føler, de skal leve med - både på det
følelsesmæssige plan og i forhold til en omverden, som måske ikke
oplever den adopterede som almindelig dansker.
Nogle gør sig mange tanker og forestillinger om den biologiske
familie, mens andre ikke bruger meget energi på den side af livet.
Teksterne rummer mange aspekter, lige fra dybt alvorlige tanker om
livets store, eksistentielle spørgsmål til dagligdagens små
finurligheder beskrevet med lune. Samlet set giver teksterne et
godt indblik i, hvilke tanker og følelser, der rører sig i
adopterede børn og unge.
Udover at bogen er til andre adopterede børn og unge, er der masser
at lære for voksne, det være sig forældre eller mennesker, der
arbejder i det daglige med børn og unge.
Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families. Drawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, "The Emotional Experience of Adoption" explores issues such as: the emotional experience of children placed for adoption, and how this both shapes and is shaped by unconscious processes in the child's inner world; how psychoanalytic child psychotherapy can help as a distinctive source of understanding and as a treatment for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted; and, how such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers."The Emotional Experience of Adoption" explains and accounts for the emotional and psychological complexities involved for child, parents and professionals in adoption. It will be of interest and relevance to anyone involved at a personal level in the adoption process or professionals working in the fields of adoption, social work, child mental health, foster care and family support.
Major changes in technology have not been driven by the technologies themselves but by the change in thinking that they enabled. OO design changed software by changing thoughts away from procedures and onto real world "things". This book argues that for SOA to succeed we must move our thoughts away from the implementation technologies and towards the "what" of the business. Using a straight-forward, pictorially driven, methodology the book explains who to discover what the business services really are and how to construct an overall business service architecture. The book covers defining the Business Service Architecture, how to classify services for business value and delivery, understanding the role of IT in supporting the architecture, how project and portfolio management needs to change, how to use a Service Architecture to identify KPIs, and how and when to use Business Process in a service architecture.
In this practical book, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion, from the initial search decision to coping with post-reunion letdown. She draws on extensive interviews with adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents, as well as the experience of her own reunion.
Written by some of the experts in the field of adoption - those people who have been adopted, have had a child adopted, or have adopted a child themselves. It is primarily intended for people who are personally involved in the adoption circle. The purpose of this collection of experiences is to share with others in the same situation the elations, anxieties, joys and dilemmas involved in searching for and meeting birth relatives. For some of the contributors their search and reunion were relatively recent. Other accounts reflect some of the more long-term effects of renewed relationships. When adoption was at its height in the 1960s and 1970s, 15,000 adoption placements were made. Many of those placed are now requesting help in their tracing of their birth families, and, similarly, many birth relatives are also looking for news of people adopted many years ago. This book is the result of their experiences.
The book describes the experiences that people have had when tracing their birth parents, as well as offering practical advice on how to go about searching and what to expect emotionally. Each section has an advice box which summarizes key points, notes issues to pay particular attention to, or offers draft letters that readers can adapt for their own needs. The appendix contains useful addresses and weblinks, and includes checklists for searching and for the reunion. Chapters include reunion with birth fathers and birth siblings, as well as with birth mothers, the relationship with the adoptive family and dealing with reunions that break down.
This work brings together the experiences of 15 people who have two things in common: first, they have shared the experience of being adopted, and second, they have all chosen the path to meeting one or both of their birth parents. Their experiences are specific and highly individual, as are their personal histories and the circumstances surrounding their adopted families. The book covers a wide range of people that have decided to face up to their past and who have risked a great deal in tracing their natural parents. The accounts show that the actual reunion meeting itself is not the end of the process, but only the beginning.
