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Erik Gfesser

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Personal Reading List: 4Q2011

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2011. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Bridging the Silos: Enterprise Architecture for IT Architects, by Tom S. Graves, Tetradian Books, 2008. The Cloud at Your Service, by Jothy Rosenberg and Arthur Mateos, Manning Publications,

New Book Review: "Lean Integration"

New book review for Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility, by John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Addison-Wesley, 2010, reposted here: A text published several years ago by the same authors, "Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology", initially captured my interest in this recently released

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 2

Notes taken for posterity during the second of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 1

Notes taken for posterity during the first of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any

New Book Review: "The Lean Startup"

New book review for The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries, Crown Business, 2011, reposted here: Copy (uncorrected proof) provided by Amazon. Good introduction to the application of Lean principles to the startup effort. As with its Lean

Rave Run: Ridges Road in Door County (Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin)

As explained in an earlier post, one habit that I picked up on the road as a consultant over the years is always inquiring about local running paths while visiting unfamiliar locales for the first time. And I find running a pleasurable way to explore new places. So in the

Product Reviews: Part 4

As of today, 1000 helpful votes have been received on Amazon for the various reviews I have written.

New Book Review: "Architecture of Network Systems"

New book review for Architecture of Network Systems, by Dimitrios Serpanos and Tilman Wolf, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011, reposted here: As the authors explain in the preface, this book was developed for use in university courses at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, using material previously presented by the authors at

New Book Review: "The Servant"

New book review for The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership, by James C. Hunter, Prima, 1998, reposted here: Recently recommended by the instructor of a University of Illinois leadership training course my colleagues and I attended, this book is one of the best leadership texts

New Book Review: "Entrepreneur Journeys v.4"

New book review for Entrepreneur Journeys v.4: Innovation – Need of the Hour (Volume 4), by Sramana Mitra, CreateSpace, 2010, reposted here: A sidebar interview with the author in a recent issue of "IEEE Spectrum" magazine made me aware of this "Entrepreneur Journeys" series of books.