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Each month we feature a new book that has been chosen by the members community and editors of the Agile Journal that may help you in your development project . You can read one of our reviews here or add your own comments abount the ones you have already had a chance to read.

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Battle of the Books: "Cage Fight" of 5 Recent Releases on Agile Adoption/Leadership

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Written by Brad Appleton   
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 09:47

BattleThe past few months have seen an epic spurt of new books on the subject of leading and adopting Lean/Agile/Scrum in the enterprise. So rather than reviewing each of them individually, for those readers who don’t want to “break their book budget” this holiday season, I thought it might be best to compare and contrast them a bit to see where each is best suited.

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FEATURED BOOK: Running an Agile Software Development Project by Mike Holcombe

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Written by Brad Appleton   
Monday, 10 August 2009 09:53
august-09-projectbigRunning an Agile Software Development Project is an interesting book. On the surface it looks like it would be very academic, because the author, Mike Holcombe, was a University Professor at the time, and running an “agile software development factory” of students (albeit for a real commercial development shop). And yet what is described in the contents is very much the practical, real-world results of running agile projects with those same people for real IT software development work.
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FEATURED BOOK: Clean Code - A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship

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Written by Brad Appleton   
Friday, 03 April 2009 00:00
apr-09-cleancodebigRobert ("Uncle Bob") Martin and the folks at ObjectMentor have written a new book that should be required reading for all programmers! When it comes to writing clear and maintainable code, cleanliness is indeed next to godliness, and we should all follow the Boy Scouts' Rule whenever we write or modify any piece of code: leave the place cleaner than when you found it!

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BOOK REVIEW: Scaling Lean & Agile Development - Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

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Written by Brad Appleton   
Monday, 16 February 2009 12:08
feb-09-bookreviewbigCraig Larman and Bas Vodde's new book Scaling Lean & Agile Development is actually the companion book to their forthcoming Practices for Scaling Lean and Agile Development due out later this year. Their first book on this subject focuses less on technical and management practices and far more on key thinking and organizational tools for Scaling Scrum using Lean thinking principles and techniques as the underlying framework.

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FEATURED BOOK: Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success, by Jim Brosseau

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Written by Brad Appleton   
Sunday, 18 May 2008 14:35
may-08-bookbig Jim Brosseau's Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success is nothing less than a handbook of guidelines, tips, and techniques for anyone wishing to effect change and influence improvement in the effectiveness of software development teams. The book bills itself as an "intensely practical guide to improving the human dynamics that are crucial to building great software" and I would say it delivers on that promise. The preface clearly sets the tone for who the target audience is:
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FEATURED BOOK: Outside-in Software Development

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Written by Brad Appleton   
Tuesday, 08 April 2008 12:46
april-08-bookwideA Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based Products, by Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer

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Kessler and Sweitzer's Outside-in Software Development should resonate deeply with all those who genuinely value the principle of customer collaboration in the Agile Manifesto, and with anyone who has played the role of Product Manager for a software project. This 2008 Jolt award Finalist is not a book about eliciting or prioritizing requirements (or "user stories") for an Agile project. This book goes beyond mere user-stories and their ranking or velocity to focus on uncovering the underlying needs and goals of your stakeholders and understanding what truly adds value for the customer and the business.
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FEATURED BOOK: Lean Project Management: Eight Principles for Success by Lawrence P. Leach

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Monday, 11 February 2008 14:48
february-08-bookofmonthwideLean Project Management: Eight Principles for Success, is actually a second edition of the eBook Eight Secrets to Supercharge your Project with CCPM. It is available both in hardcopy and eBook formats. Lawrence Leach (www.advanced-projects.com) is perhaps best known as author of one of the most comprehensive texts on the subject of Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). In this book, subtitled "Combining CCPM and Lean tools to accelerate project results," the author essentially integrates Lean Thinking into CCPM, along with elements from the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and PMBoK/PMI. Leach calls the result Lean Project Management or LPM.
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