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June 8, 2010

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New Content Pointers
This Week's Column
Amplifying Collaboration with Guerilla Facilitation
by Ellen Gottesdiener
Sometimes, an ineffective meeting can be more damaging than no meeting at all. But, if you're not the person in charge of facilitating the meeting, how can you help keep the group and the meeting in line? In this article, Ellen Gottesdiener offers some suggestions for both facilitators and non-facilitators that may help ease some of your meeting frustrations.

Principles of Engagement with Software Testing Customers
Submitted by Avishek Mohanty
This paper aims to bring out the basic things that are sidelined or overlooked during daily execution of projects and programs, which may explain why customers tend to move from one testing vendor to another. This paper describes a method called LIASE (Listen, Implement, Ask, Standardize, and Exhibit) that keep the customer satisfied throughout that also acts as a customer-retention method.

8 Best Practices for Managing Software Releases
Submitted by Steve Miller
Many software releases extend longer than expected. While sometimes project slippage is unavoidable, there are some clear-cut best practice fundamentals that you can employ to reduce the chance of slippage. This article covers eight practices used to help us ship on time.

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New Book Review
Exploratory Software Testing
by James Whittaker
Reviewed by: Noreen Dertinger
James Whittaker is a veteran software testing professional with experience teaching and working for companies like Microsoft and Google. Exploratory Software Testing is the author's latest contribution to software testing literature. Drawing on nearly twenty years of experience in the testing field, Whittaker explains how to identify important areas to test and how to uncover bugs that might be missed by automated (or manual) testing.

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We're All in the Same Boat
by Lisa Crispin
In April, Jeff Patton (with some help from David Hussman) did a presentation for our Agile Denver group called "No One Wants Your Stupid Process." If you aren't familiar with Jeff's work, check out his website at www.agileprojectdesign.com, or just start Googling.

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