We can see our forests vanishing, our water-powers going to waste, our soil being carried by floods into the sea; and the end of our coal and our iron is in sight. But our larger wastes of human effort, which go on every day through such of our acts as are blundering, ill-directed, or inefficient, …
I am currently in progress of writing my first Agile book. It is basically a beginners Agile book targeted outside of the software development industry with a major twist. If you would like to participate as a reviewer can you please contact me via twitter with an @AgileRenee mention and then I will …
When I mentioned to some community friends that I was going to be reading Steve Denning’s Radical Management book a number of them looked at me as if I had contracted some form of virus. “Why would you read a dumbed down book on Scrum?” they said. The answer for me was simple – Agile, …
I had a considerable amount of trepidation when reading this book by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. The title itself is ellusive and doesn’t lead the reader to understand the value that it might have for them. The subline is a bit more useful “How to Create Uncontested Market Space to Make the Competition …
Recommended by Bob Marshall in a few tweets I took Martin Lindstrom’s second book on marketing with me to Austria to read predominantly because it was the most lightweight book in my backlog at 218 pages. In retrospect this was probably a bad idea – mostly because for one the hyped up quotes on the …
Gamestorming, a playbook for innovators, rulebreakers and changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo is a great composition of a number of games and techniques out there to reach collaborative and innovative outcomes; well worthy of a read for all Agile coaches. The form, for the most part of the book, describes the …
It was with some trepidation that I took at look at Seth Godin’s Tribes book. This was primarily due to mixed reports from friends whom had read it. It was so mixed that it was pretty evenly split down the middle 50% loved it, 50% hated it. Those that didn’t rate it felt that it …
This one is for Mhano. Book 2 of 11 for the PMI Agile PM certification syllabus – Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwarber, 2004. Okay well firstly it is obviously about Scrum and doesn’t cover anything XP or ‘A’gile related. Given that it is getting a bit on in age I thought there would be …
Over the last few months I have pondered going for PMI’s Agile PM certification. Unsure of how dedicated to this cause I might be, I decided to at least start reading the eleven books on the syllabus and see how I felt after reading one. The first one was “The Art of Agile Development” by James Shore …
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