Books @ The Speed of Need
Image: you are an experienced Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner or something in that direction. You switch between roles or are planning to switch. Although you're very experienced in all these roles: it's always nice to focus your mind again on the specifics when needed, or just for the fun of it (which is applicable to my situation).
We all know: getting the right information, in the right format against reasonable prices can be hard to find. Searching for specific material is a quest on its own because of the many sources available.
Imagine you can specify yourself what you want to read, and imagine that these specifications can be turned into books within an hour and imagine it can be done in different languages?
Yes, that's awesome isn't it?
Well. I give you the content of two files. They have similar titles. One file for English books and the other for Dutch books.
US - Books:
"The Role of the US Agile Coach in Complex Organizations" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"What Makes a Good Product Owner?" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"The Scrum Framework and all its Artifacts Processes and Roles" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"The Scaled US Agile Framework and all its Artifacts Processes and Roles" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"What Makes a Good Scrum Master?" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"The Scrum Master within a Complex Environment" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"The US Agile Coach within a Complex Environment" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"The Product Owner within a Complex Environment" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
"What Makes a Good US Agile Coach?" "1" "6" "1" "false" "US" "Publish" "US Agile - "
Dutch Books:
"The Role of the Agile Coach in Complex Organizations" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"What Makes a Good Product Owner?" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"The Scrum Framework and all its Artifacts Processes and Roles" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"The Scaled Agile Framework and all its Artifacts Processes and Roles" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"What Makes a Good Scrum Master?" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"The Scrum Master within a Complex Environment" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"The Agile Coach within a Complex Environment" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"The Product Owner within a Complex Environment" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
"What Makes a Good Agile Coach?" "1" "5" "1" "false" "NL" "Publish" "Agile - "
I could also have combined these lines into 1 file. But for clarity, I separated the content.
Wouldn't it be awesome if I could create these books with one command like:?
c:\<program-name> "batch"
And that this command would loop through the files and create books out of every line? Yes, for me that would be awesome.
First the explanation of the parameters in the files:
1. Name of the book
2. Amount of books
3. Amount of chapters
4. Anount of examples of the same book
5. Images
6. Language
7. Publish to a website or not
8. Prefix of the files (for ordening on the website)
And would it not be AWESOME if I could read these books on a website showing these books like this?
The Read button works, the Publish button not. The Publish button could be functionality to publish to a publisher through an API or to your OneDrive, or Google Drive , Mail, SharePoint Document Library, or whatnot. Your imagination is the limit.
You think this all is still science fiction? It is not.
Here is the site with the book:
Here is the article containing the direction to create this functionality
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And here is the raw code where you will find all the sweeties and more of the previous articles. As I've said: it's the raw code, not refined, updated, polished or whatever. Just the raw ideas. It's up to the smarties to make it better.
I'm a busy professional: without the time to make a project out of all the ideas in the code. The only wish I have is that it will be made professionally in awesome initiatives. That's why I have to limit myself in feeding the idea's. More time I can't find.