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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
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
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
Book Review: Tools for Complex Projects
This book is based on the latest research in the areas of project management, complexity theory and systems thinking. The authors aim to provide a set of tools for understanding and managing the complex projects and programs. The first chapter … Continue reading
Book Review: Steering Project Success – What More is Possible ?
Author: Madhavan S. Rao Managing IT projects in an environment of rapidly changing customer requirements, uncertain business scenario and umpteen numbers of risks and vulnerabilities is a real challenge. More than 60 % projects are either highly challenged or are … Continue reading
Book Review: Agile Management for Software Engineering – Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
Author: David J. Anderson A software product business like any other business exists for making profits. To make profits in a highly competitive and dynamically changing environment it must ensure a transparent and continuous flow of high quality customer -valued … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Lean, Metrics, Project Management, Software Engineering, Theory of Constraints (TOC)
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Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Original Edition)
Author: Patrick Lencioni Published: 2008 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Paperback: 240 pages Buy from Flipkart This book is a must read for those executives who wants to bring about team leadership culture in their organization and also highly recommended for Agile Coaches, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Estimation, Human Resource Management, Leadership, People, Team Dynamics
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Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Manga Edition)
Author: Patrick Lencioni Illustrator: Kensuke Okabayashi Published: 2008 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd. Paperback: 174 pages Buy from Flipkart An organization may have a more talented executive team, more cash, better core technology, more powerful board of … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Coaching, Human Resource Management, Leadership, People, Team Dynamics
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