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Written by Brad Appleton
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
 by Scott
L. Bain
Scott Bain's recent book Emergent
Design - The Evolutionary Nature of Profaessional Software Development is
a perfect tome for individuals to learn the personal discipline and practices
that underlie the technical practices of Agile development: Refactoring,
Automated-Tests, Design Patterns, Test-Driven Development, Design Principles, and of course Emergent Design. It's all right
there. Throw in a sprinkle of commonality & variability analysis (CVA) ,
pathologies (code/design "smells"), programming-by-intention, along with a dash
of JUnit and Mock Objects, and this author has cooked-up one of the most useful
references to date for how to stir all of these together into a full-bodied
personal and professional discipline.
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Sunday, 18 May 2008 |
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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Written by Brad Appleton
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
 A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based
Products, by Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer
Reviewed by Brad Appleton
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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Written by Brad Appleton
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
 Lean
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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Written by Brad Appleton
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
 This is
an amazing book! The
Art of Agile Development is nothing less than 10+ years' worth of agile
development experience distilled into a single compendium of practical insight
and mindful application of Agile practices and principles. James Shore and Shane Warden have succeeded
marvelously in doing exactly what they set out to do: "packed everything we
knew about the day-to-day practice of agile development into 400 pages ... to provide
a complete how-to guide and starter kit for beginning and intermediate agile
practitioners" (quoted from the
book's website).
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
 Most
books I read related to Lean and Agile development talk about how Agile has
roots in Lean that were then applied to the world of software development.
Preston G. Smith's latest work, Flexible
Product Development, is a bit of "switcharoo" in this regard: it takes
the ideas and principles of Agile software development and then shows how they
can be applied to non-software products.
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Saturday, 10 November 2007 |
 Whether
your projects and teams are Agile, apathetic, or just plain asleep, Johanna Rothman's
Manage It! is your pragmatic,
no-nonsense guide to deftly dealing with management reality when your project's
stakeholders are clinging to project fantasy. This is yet another top notch
book from both Johanna Rothman and the Pragmatic Programmer's Bookshelf. Rothman's
previous books Behind Closed
Doors: Secrets of Great Management
(with Esther Derby), and Hiring the
Best Knowledge Workers, Techies, and Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People have both
received critical acclaim, and Rothman's
blogs have been on my regular
reading list for years. So this new, insightful, practical, and timely tome
from her on the subject of modern project management success in the real world
(both Agile and otherwise) comes as no surprise.
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