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Book Review: People CMM 2nd Edition

Authors: Bill Curtis, William E. Hefley & Sally A. Miller People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM)   is a  Human Capital Management framework developed by Carnegie Mellon University. This framework is based on the best practices of diverse fields like human … Continue reading

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Book Review : The Professional – Defining the New Standards of Excellence at Work

Author: Subroto Bagchi Who is a true professional ? The author a well known business leader in Indian IT industry, redefines “professionalism”  in this book. As per Bagchi, being professional is much more than accepting the responsibility and doing the … Continue reading

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Book Review: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Authors: John Bessant and Joe Tidd The authors who are experienced academicians have written this book to provide an accessible and highly structured introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship for students of business and management. They have reviewed and synthesized the … Continue reading

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Book Review: Practices of an Agile Developer

Authors: Venkat Subramaniam & Andy Hunt In this book the authors present 45 practices which a software developer need to follow to derive maximum benefit out of the Agile way of working. After an introductory first chapter – Agile Software … Continue reading

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Book Review: Game Writing Handbook

Author: Rafael Chandler The video game industry is booming. There are several game genres – first-person shooter, the racing game, real-time strategy, sports, flight simulation etc.  I am not a game enthusiast,  but I picked up this book on Game … Continue reading

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Book Review: Head First – Software Development

Authors:  Dan Pilone  & Russ Miles The software development approach  described in this book  is primarily based on Agile development principles and the Scrum framework (though not explicitly mentioned as such).  It also introduces the concepts underlying technical practices like … Continue reading

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Book Review: Beautiful Teams

Editors: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene This book provides deep insights into what makes a good team tick, and what one can do to make a mediocre team better. The editors of this book are well experienced in software development … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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