 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. Also, if you would like to make a recommendation for a future featured book, please let us know.
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Saturday, 07 April 2007 |
 by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
Agile
Retrospectives,
by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, is yet
another imminently useful and readable book from the Pragmatic Programmer's Bookshelf.
Previously, Norm Kerth's Project Restrospectives
was considered the definitive work in this area. Some may prefer Kerth's style
of writing whereas others may find it a bit to "flowery" and will favor the
plainer and more concise phrasing and style of Agile Retrospectives. In either case, Derby and Larsen had their "work cut out for
them" in trying to succeed Kerth's book and website - fortunately for them they
succeeded marvelously!
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
 Reviewed by Brad Appleton
The
Software Development Edge is a collection of insightful and
entertaining essays about project management and leadership by Joe Marasco.
Marasco has ingeniously and thoughtfully woven together the fabric of
true-to-life experience with some fabricated personas, proven practices,
lessons learned, and some common sense measurement that should both connect
with and enlighten any reader who has lived on a real world software
development endeavor.
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Saturday, 10 February 2007 |
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For a "hot off the presses" view of what one of the experts in the BPM and IT communities thinks about how the new "flattened" global economy will impact our industry, take a look at Peter Fingar's recent book "Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation" (see the provocatively illustrated Executive Summary).
In October 2005, Fingar described his (then forthcoming) book as a "wake-up call" for the US. With the new global economy, the US will no longer be at the head of the pack in the new knowledge economy of knowledge workers. The continuing dearth of interest in the US among younger folks to go into the software/knowledge engineering field will quickly put the US economy behind the pack.
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Monday, 08 January 2007 |
 by Per Kroll and Bruce MacIsaac
Agility and Discipline Made Easy is all about how to mindfully tailor and adapt RUP/OpenUP to achieve Agility within the real-world constraints of many large organizations and more formal process cultures. In short: I really liked the book and I really disliked the title. For so many of us living in large or corporate environments trying to figure out how to successfully adapt and scale "Agile" for our organizations, this book is exactly what the doctor ordered!
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Written by Brad Appleton
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Thursday, 07 December 2006 |
 by Mary & Tom Poppendieck
Implementing Lean Software Development is a follow-up to the Poppendiecks' award-winning 2003 book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers. It doesn't disappoint. Their first book focused on explaining the principles and concepts of Lean and how those apply to software development. This second book focuses on the history and practice of lean software development and what you can do today to implement lean software development in your own workplace.
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Written by Liz Barnett
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Monday, 13 November 2006 |
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I have always found Alistair Cockburn's Crystal family of agile methodologies to be among the most pragmatic approaches to software development. [1] Cockburn advocates that teams should adopt a specific instance of a methodology based on risk and scale factors for their projects. In the second edition to his book, Agile Software Development (with new subtitle "The Cooperative Game"), Cockburn updates his ideas on software development, with particular emphasis on "the cooperative game of invention and communication."
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