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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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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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Guideline : How to Audit an Agile Project ?
Organizations certified as ISO 9001 compliant need to conduct Internal Audits of their processes at planned intervals. The objective is to determine whether the processes followed in their projects are effective and are in compliance to the requirements defined in … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Book Review: Agile Product Management with Scrum – Creating Products that Customers Love
Author: Roman Pichler Published: 2010 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional A Product Owner (PO) is one of the key roles in Scrum framework. POs are responsible for maximizing the value of the product being developed and the work of the development team. … Continue reading