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Why Scrum Team Members Need to Feel Safe to Admit Their FailuresSteve Vaughn writes on why team members need to feel comfortable when speaking openly—about failures as well as successes—during a standup meeting. People will only speak when they feel safe, and once agile team members feel safe to fail, they can begin to improve. | 
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Development and Marketing—Can't We All Just Get Along? When building software for sale, it may seem that software development managers and product marketing managers should get along great. One team builds the software; the other team finds people to buy it. Eric Bloom looks at the primary reason why these two teams sometimes don't get along. |
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How to Enrage, not Engage, Your Twitter FollowersMaybe one day we'll all know how to use Twitter without infuriating our followers. But when Twitter executives themselves can't seem to figure it out, perhaps we're all doomed to keep making the same mistakes. PR companies across the U.S. were busy putting out social media fires all week long. | 
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After Security Breach on Developer Site, Apple Creates Status PageApple’s developer site experienced a security breach last week, and it still hasn’t fully recovered. The company created a status page showing which systems are back online. The site is in its eighth day of downtime as the company works to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future. | 
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Book Review: To Sell Is HumanSteve 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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No Boys Allowed: A Women-Only Ruby on Rails Boot Camp There’s a general consensus among those hiring in tech hubs that there aren’t enough qualified computer programmers, especially when it comes to Ruby on Rails. And when it comes to female coders, the candidate pool shrinks even more. Pamela Rentz profiles a women-only Ruby on Rails boot camp. |
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To Become a Leader, Start Acting Like a Leader TodayIf you want to become a leader, you should start to act like a leader—no matter what level you’re at right now. To do that, strive to excel in your current role and seek out opportunities to contribute. Read on for more tips on becoming a leader—whether at the team level or as head of the company. | 
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When Does Turnaround Management Succeed?Turnaround management has a very typical lifecycle of its own, and it is not a strict theory than can be adopted to succeed. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the various facets of turnaround management and highlights some recent high-profile instances of companies implementing turnaround management. | 
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