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The Agile Pocket Guide – Winners :)

peter — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:47:45 +0000

Thanks to you guys for entering! Please send me an email at — me [at] peter [dot] ps with your address and I’ll ship it right out!

See Our Past Giveaways:

[Book Giveaway] – Social Media Marketing Book
[Book Giveaway] - Executives Guide to Information Technology
[Book Giveaway] – AgileScout and Open Source Awards – 3 Book Giveaways!
[Book Giveaway] - Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done
[Book Giveaway] – Making Ideas Happen
[Book Giveaway] – Scrum Pocket Guide – A Quick Start Guide to Agile Software Development
[Giftcard] – $100 BestBuy Giftcard
[Book Giveaway] – Fatal Illusions
[Swag] – Cool Agile Mug
[iPad] – First Ever iPad Giveaway!
[Swag] – 1 Terabyte Western Digital Hard Drive

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The Agile Pocket Guide – Winners :)

The Agile Pocket Guide Book – Published!

peter — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:15:16 +0000

Peter Saddington‘s 2nd book published by Wiley, “The Agile Pocket Guide – A quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond” is out!

To celebrate, we’re giving some away!

To enter, simply

1 – Tweet this post

2 – Comment on this post!

#win

The Agile Pocket Guide Book – Published!

[#Giveaway #Winner] – A Guide to Execution

peter — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:21:56 +0000

Giveaway Winner Alert!

We had many tweet it and a couple post.

Here is our random winner!

@TMichaelRogers

Send us an email @ info@agilescout.com with address so I can ship out your book!

Congrats!

See Our Past Giveaways:

[Book Giveaway] – Social Media Marketing Book
[Book Giveaway] - Executives Guide to Information Technology
[Book Giveaway] – AgileScout and Open Source Awards – 3 Book Giveaways!
[Book Giveaway] - Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done
[Book Giveaway] – Making Ideas Happen
[Book Giveaway] – Scrum Pocket Guide – A Quick Start Guide to Agile Software Development
[Giftcard] – $100 BestBuy Giftcard
[Book Giveaway] – Fatal Illusions
[Swag] – Cool Agile Mug
[iPad] – First Ever iPad Giveaway!
[Swag] – 1 Terabyte Western Digital Hard Drive

Help us give away more awesome free stuff to our community and readers! [Become a Sponsor]

[#Giveaway #Winner] – A Guide to Execution

[Giveaway] – Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done

peter — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:15:49 +0000

GIVEAWAY!

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done - By Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

This great book was a real eye-opener for me. Here’s an extra copy. Love it!

Review:

Disciplines like strategy, leadership development, and innovation are the sexier aspects of being at the helm of a successful business; actually getting things done never seems quite as glamorous. But as Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan demonstrate in Execution, the ultimate difference between a company and its competitor is, in fact, the ability to execute.

Execution is “the missing link between aspirations and results,” and as such, making it happen is the business leader’s most important job. While failure in today’s business environment is often attributed to other causes, Bossidy and Charan argue that the biggest obstacle to success is the absence of execution. They point out that without execution, breakthrough thinking on managing change breaks down, and they emphasize the fact that execution is a discipline to learn, not merely the tactical side of business. Supporting this with stories of the “execution difference” being won (EDS) and lost (Xerox and Lucent), the authors describe the building blocks–leaders with the right behaviors, a culture that rewards execution, and a reliable system for having the right people in the right jobs–that need to be in place to manage the three core business processes of people, strategy, and operations. Both Bossidy, CEO of Honeywell International, Inc., and Charan, advisor to corporate executives and author of such books as What the CEO Wants You to Know and Boards That Work, present experience-tested insight into how the smooth linking of these three processes can differentiate one company from the rest. Developing the discipline of execution isn’t made out to be simple, nor is this book a quick, easy read. Bossidy and Charan do, however, offer good advice on a neglected topic, making Execution a smart business leader’s guide to enacting success rather than permitting demise. –S. Ketchum

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See Our Past Giveaways:

[Book Giveaway] – Social Media Marketing Book
[Book Giveaway] - Executives Guide to Information Technology
[Book Giveaway] – AgileScout and Open Source Awards – 3 Book Giveaways!
[Book Giveaway] - Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done
[Book Giveaway] – Making Ideas Happen
[Book Giveaway] – Scrum Pocket Guide – A Quick Start Guide to Agile Software Development
[Giftcard] – $100 BestBuy Giftcard
[Book Giveaway] – Fatal Illusions
[Swag] – Cool Agile Mug
[iPad] – First Ever iPad Giveaway!
[Swag] – 1 Terabyte Western Digital Hard Drive

Help us give away more awesome free stuff to our community and readers! [Become a Sponsor]

[Giveaway] – Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done

[Giveaway] – iPad? Love Agile? Capture your Retrospective Notes!

peter — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:15:51 +0000

Retrospectives App for iPad GIVEAWAY!

Retail Price? $2.99! YAY!

For agile developers who reflect at regular intervals on how to improve their processes, this app provides a set of discussion tools that can be used to brainstorm and energize their retrospective meetings.

While not pretending to replace the collective discussion involving physical whiteboards and stickies, this app benefits those who like to prepare inputs for retrospectives or search for an easy way to capture and share the results.

Features:

Touch based whiteboard and sticky notes
Timeline – a visual overview of the events that occurred in the retrospective period
Radar – helps the team to gather data on how well they are doing on a variety of measures
Leaning Matrix – used to to ﬁnd out what is signiﬁcant about the data and generate insights on what should be repeated, changed, tried as well as to congratulate team members on a job well done
Short Subjects – used when a quick way to review and decide what to do is needed
Starﬁsh – used to reﬂect on various degrees of things to bring up to discussion
Positive / Delta – discuss things to keep and change in the next retrospective
Twitter and email sharing

GIMME ONE!

Throw us a comment on how you would use this iPad app for your RETROSPECTIVES.

We’ll choose… 3 winners!

That is all.

[HT:Retrospectives]

[Giveaway] – iPad? Love Agile? Capture your Retrospective Notes!

[Giveaway Winner] – How to Create a Successful Blog Business

peter — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:15:37 +0000

Winner alert:

How to Build a Successful Blog Business

WINNER: Beatriz – Shoot us an email at [info AT agilescout DOT com] with address and we’ll ship it out!

See Our Past Giveaways:

[Book Giveaway] – Social Media Marketing Book
[Book Giveaway] - Executives Guide to Information Technology
[Book Giveaway] – AgileScout and Open Source Awards – 3 Book Giveaways!
[Book Giveaway] - Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done
[Book Giveaway] – Making Ideas Happen
[Book Giveaway] – Scrum Pocket Guide – A Quick Start Guide to Agile Software Development
[Giftcard] – $100 BestBuy Giftcard
[Book Giveaway] – Fatal Illusions
[Swag] – Cool Agile Mug
[iPad] – First Ever iPad Giveaway!
[Swag] – 1 Terabyte Western Digital Hard Drive

Help us give away more awesome free stuff to our community and readers! [Become a Sponsor]

[Giveaway Winner] – How to Create a Successful Blog Business

[Giveaway] – How to Build a Successful Blog Business

peter — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:15:32 +0000

We’re moving into December, and for all you bloggers out there, who may want to improve their strategy as a blogger… this may just be the book for you.

How to Build a Successful Blog Business

“How to Build a Successful Blog Business is a straight forward guide to building a publishing business online that covers everything from choosing a niche to hiring staff, registering a business to selling it, finding traffic to monetizing it. Whether you are interested in creating an additional income stream or building a fully-fledged business, this is an essential read for web entrepreneurs and online publishers. Collis is a web veteran with a wealth of experience and an easy to read style. He has founded sites such as the Tuts+ network, the Envato Marketplaces, FreelanceSwitch and AppStorm which combined serve up over 50 million pageviews a month.”

If you want even more information on how to become an awesome blogger that makes cash, check out Tentblogger.com.

How to Enter:

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Tweet this post

Simple. Jump on it! Contest entry closes (for this month) on Dec 16th, 11:59PM.

Boom goes the dynamite.

See Our Past Giveaways:

[Book Giveaway] – Social Media Marketing Book
[Book Giveaway] - Executives Guide to Information Technology
[Book Giveaway] – AgileScout and Open Source Awards – 3 Book Giveaways!
[Book Giveaway] - Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done
[Book Giveaway] – Making Ideas Happen
[Book Giveaway] – Scrum Pocket Guide – A Quick Start Guide to Agile Software Development
[Giftcard] – $100 BestBuy Giftcard
[Book Giveaway] – Fatal Illusions
[Swag] – Cool Agile Mug
[iPad] – First Ever iPad Giveaway!
[Swag] – 1 Terabyte Western Digital Hard Drive

Help us give away more awesome free stuff to our community and readers! [Become a Sponsor]

[Giveaway] – How to Build a Successful Blog Business

Social Media Marketing Winner Alert!

peter — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:10:46 +0000

Winner of this past month’s giveaway:

Yavor! +1

Send us an email at [me AT peter DOT ps] with Name and Address info!

Congrats!

Social Media Marketing Winner Alert!

Giveaway – Social Media Marketing Book!

peter — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:15:23 +0000

[This is part of 2011 Monthly Book Giveaways with AgileScout!]

This month’s giveaway is The Social Media Marketing Book. This book has helped AgileScout become one of the #1 resources for Agile Software Development News!

David J. Perdue’s review on it from Amazon.com:

In the increasingly complex world of social media, how do you begin to successfully engage in social media marketing for your business? Dan Zarrella has responded to that question with “The Social Media Marketing Book.” It’s a quick read. But the small book is packed with useful information for those itching to jump into the social media marketing fray.

The book’s organization is quite user-friendly and begins with a brief introduction to social media. The bulk of the book then focuses on presenting a concise history, definition, and description of the various types of social media: blogging, Twitter/microblogging, social networking, media sharing, social news and bookmarking, ratings and reviews, forums, and virtual worlds. I found each section both helpful and interesting, especially appreciating the author’s conciseness.

Overall, I found Zarrella’s guide a helpful resource on understanding and applying social media for business. Note that the book is an introductory guide, so don’t expect to find profound social media strategies if you’re already an experienced social media marketer. Nevertheless, I appreciated the nuggets of wisdom throughout this survey of social media marketing.

How to Enter:

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Tweet this post

Simple. Jump on it! Contest entry closes (for this month) on Oct 31, 11:59PM.

Boom goes the dynamite.

See Our Past Giveaways:

[Book Giveaway] - Executives Guide to Information Technology
[Book Giveaway] – AgileScout and Open Source Awards – 3 Book Giveaways!
[Book Giveaway] - Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done
[Book Giveaway] – Making Ideas Happen
[Book Giveaway] – Scrum Pocket Guide – A Quick Start Guide to Agile Software Development
[Giftcard] – $100 BestBuy Giftcard
[Book Giveaway] – Fatal Illusions
[Swag] – Cool Agile Mug
[iPad] – First Ever iPad Giveaway!
[Swag] – 1 Terabyte Western Digital Hard Drive

Help us give away more awesome free stuff to our community and readers! [Become a Sponsor]

Giveaway – Social Media Marketing Book!

Giveaway Winner Alert! – Open Source Awards 3 Book Giveaways!

peter — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:15:35 +0000

Thanks to Packtpub and AgileScout for this one!

3 Winners:

Scott Leclerc
Steve Robillard
Thomas Queste

Email us your name, address, phone number and we’ll hook yah up!

Congrats!

Giveaway Winner Alert! – Open Source Awards 3 Book Giveaways!