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I found this book to be surprisingly good (outstanding even), and not at all what I was expecting given the apparent tool/vendor-specific nature suggested by the title. The value-up paradigm and most of the other concepts and values in the book are very well aligned with agility while still meeting the needs of those in enterprise-scale companies and projects who may require more CMMI-based ceremony in their software and systems engineering efforts.
When I first saw the book, I was honestly expecting it to be some kind of "how-to" guide for Microsoft's recent Visual Studio Team System product (MS VSTS). Lo and behold, it's really not about VSTS. It is about what Guckenheimer calls applying the "value-up" paradigm and the kind of metrics to drive and sustain it (and how Team System just happens to be able to support it). It's not about the tool as much as it's about the mind-set and how the tool supports that mind-set. (How refreshing!)
Of course it does all this using the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) and its much touted "MSF Agile" and "MSF CMMI." But at its core, it really and truly is a no-nonsense book about modern day scalable agility in an increasingly regulatory and SOA world with an honest look at itself and some thoughtful balancing between extremes.
About the Reviewer:
Brad Appleton is an enterprise SCM/ALM solution architect for a Fortune 100 technology company. Currently he helps projects and teams adopt and apply agile development & SCM practices. Brad also author's the Agile CM Environments blog, and is co-author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration, the "Agile SCM" column in CMCrossroads.com's CM Journal, and is a former section editor for The C++ Report. Since 1987, Brad has extensive experience using, developing, and supporting SCM environments for teams of all shapes and sizes. He holds an M.S. in Software Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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