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Book Review: Business Genius
Author: Peter Fisk As business professionals most of the times we endlessly focus on getting , analyzing and reporting data. We rarely rely on our own intuition, insights and imagination. According to the author Peter Fisk, a highly experienced business strategist … Continue reading
Book Review: NLP for Rookies
Authors: Becky Mallery and Katherine Russell NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a method for understanding and influencing the human mind. NLP can be a very useful tool for getting buy-in for one’s ideas and for ensuring desired actions from the … Continue reading
Book Review: e-Retailing
Authors: Charles Dennis, Tino Fenech and Bill Merrilees e-retailing has transformed the market place over the last decade and a half. This book explains the fundamentals of e-retailing and provides the readers a basic guide to the implementation and operation … Continue reading
Book Review: Coaching Agile Teams
Author: Lyssa Adkins Coaching agile teams is a challenging task. It means going beyond establishing and maintaining basic agile processes. The ultimate goal of an Agile coach should be to enable creation of a high-performing, self-sustaining, continuously improving and innovating team. … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Lean Startup
Startups operate in an uncertain and dynamically changing environment. Most of them fail. This is because the entrepreneurs initiate and manage them either in a conventional (rigorous and time consuming upfront market research, planning, strategizing) manner or in an adhoc … Continue reading
News Update: “Exploring Agile” – An Awareness Workshop
Conducted a half-a-day awareness workshop ” Exploring Agile” on May 15 2012 for the management team of Triumph India, one of Asia’s leading technical communications companies based in Bangalore. Triumph India provides documentation services that encompass the spectrum of content … Continue reading
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Book Review : Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
Social entrepreneurship is a business oriented approach towards building and running an organization devoted to a social cause. Best practices of the business world like reporting of results, measuring the return on investments, minimizing the overheads and waste, and continuous … Continue reading
Book Review: The Bid Manager’s Handbook
Bidding for a business is extremely complex, challenging and time consuming task. It has to be done in a highly competitive, time-boxed and fixed budget environment. Unless the bidding team dynamics, the bidding process and the proposal contents are managed … Continue reading
News Update: 2-day Scrum Workshop for Cognizant
Conducted a 2-day Workshop on Introduction to Scrum and Agile Methodologies in Pune for Cognizant Technology Solutions on February 28th and 29th. The participants were professionals from the Delivery Assurance Group. The workshop was customized to their requirements and included … Continue reading
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Book Review: Test-Driven Development – A Practical Guide
“Failures are the stepping stones to success”. This is very much true of how Test-driven Development (TDD), an Agile software engineering practice works. Unlike the conventional software development where the programmer writes the code and then tests it out, TDD … Continue reading