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Book Review: The PMP Exam – How to Pass on Your First Try

Author:      Andy Crowe Published: 2009 Publisher: Shroff Publishers and Distributors Paperback: 556 pages PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is perhaps one of the most sought after certification in the industry today. There are umpteen number of training programs and books … Continue reading

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Book Review: Agile Estimating and Planning

Authors:      Mike Cohn Published:   2005 Publisher:   Prentice Hall Paperback: 368 pages This book is perhaps the most cited reference on estimation and planning by agilists. It is not just about “how to estimate and plan an Agile project”. … Continue reading

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Book Review: Agile Testing – A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Authors: Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory Published: 2009 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Paperback: 576 pages “What is in it for me in Agile?” ask testing professionals whom I have come across .  Though Agile methods advocate generalization over specialization in terms … Continue reading

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Book Review: Agile Coaching

Authors:      Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley Published:   2009 Publisher:   The Pragmatic Bookshelf Paperback: 240 pages “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”,  says a … Continue reading

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Book Review: Delivering E-Learning

Author: Kenneth Fee Published: 2009 Publisher: Kogan Page Buy from Flipkart In this information age one cannot afford to keep away from the potential benefits which e-learning can deliver. However the subject of e-learning is still misunderstood and still accounts … Continue reading

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Book Review: High Performance Operations

Author: Hillel Glazer Published: 2011 Publisher: FT Press Buy from Flipkart Acknowledgement : I thank the author and the publisher for sending me a free pre-publication copy of this book and seeking an honest opinion of mine through this blog … Continue reading

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Book Review: Understand Statistics

Author:     Alan Graham Published: 2010 Publisher: Hodder Education I am always on the lookout for good ideas to enhance my training and consulting approaches. Therefore I read from time to time, from a purely pedagogical perspective, introductory level books on … Continue reading

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Book Review: User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Author: Mike Cohn Published: 2004 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional The entire business of software development (for that matter any product development) starts with a user need (whether inherent or created by innovative marketing !) which gets expressed in form of documented … Continue reading

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Book Review: Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great

Author: Esther Derby, Diane Larsen Published: 2006 Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf Agile Principle # 12 – At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. The “reflection” part typically happens … Continue reading

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Book Review: Individuals and Interactions – An Agile Guide

Authors: Ken Howard and Barry Rogers Published: 2011 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Buy from Flipkart “Individual and Interactions over Processes and Tools”, thus begins the Agile Manifesto. It is obvious that the authors of the Agile Manifesto considered “Individual and Interactions” … Continue reading

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