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Book Review: More Fearless Change

It is not always easy to encourage people or organizations to adopt new ideas. More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen can give you the tools to help you spread new ideas. This book has actionable advice you can apply as a change agent, regardless of your role or organization.

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Steve Berczuk
Book Review: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

Retrospectives are valuable but often neglected agile practices. Some teams struggle to take the time to hold them, and others don't know how. The book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives: A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises can help you keep your retrospectives engaging and useful.

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Steve Berczuk
Book Review: Management 3.0

It's challenging to be a manager or a leader, much less both, and the challenges are greater on an agile team. Jurgen Appelo's book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders explores what management and leadership mean in a world of agile and self-organizing teams.

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Steve Berczuk
Book Review: To Sell Is Human

Steve Berczuk reviews Daniel Pink’s recent book To Sell Is Human and explains how it's a resource that can benefit agile practitioners. The main message in the book is how everyone, not just those engaged in commerce, are selling all the time.

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Steve Berczuk
Book Review: The Human Side of Agile

Being agile is difficult. Not only are there technical and organizational challenges, but the very nature of the way agile methods work brings the assumptions, context, and fears of team members to the foreground. These people issues are explored in Gil Broza’s book, The Human Side of Agile.

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Steve Berczuk
Book Review: Tap into Mobile Application Testing

This review of Jonathan Kohl's new book Tap Into Mobile Application Testing stresses the need for testers to start paying attention to the testing challenges unique to mobile applications. David Greenlees recommends this book as a great place to start.

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David Greenlees