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		<title>Specification by Example</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/specification-by-example/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After &#8220;Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing&#8221; published in 2009, Gojko Adzic continues to develop the Specification by Example concept. Specification by Example is a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure the right product is delivered effectively. In this book, he presents the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Integration</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-integration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book is divided in three parts. The first part provides an overview of Lean integration. The second part introduces the seven Lean integration principles and the last part discusses lean integration competency areas. This book provides valuable content to apply the lean principles to the software integration process with a lot of case studies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documenting Software Architectures</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/documenting-software-architectures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have more chances to like a  book on documenting software architectures when the authors know how to write and this is the case for this one. It starts by explaining the concepts of architecture views and styles. A second part discusses in a more detailed fashion the process of documenting architecture. I think that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/leadership-teamwork-and-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CMMI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this book from Watts S. Humphrey is a little bit deceiving as its main focus is rather on the Team Software Process (TSP).  If you are your interested in a broader perspective on software development management or leadership, you should rather read Humphrey’s “Reflections on Management“. The information in the book is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Game Development with Scrum</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/agile-game-development-with-scrum/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/agile-game-development-with-scrum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Drawing from his own experience as developer and CTO in the game development industry, Keith Clinton has written a book that provides both an overall vision of the Agile and Scrum approaches combined with a detailed practice of these principles in the specific context of game software development. It gives therefore also a good introduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-acceptance-test-driven-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-acceptance-test-driven-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[software testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This book defines acceptance tests not as the traditional user acceptance tests performed after implementation, but  as the tests created by the customer in collaboration with the developer and the tester prior to implementation.  Ken Pugh proposes mainly an approach where all project stakeholders will collaborate to create tests that validate business requirements. I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Software Debt</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/managing-software-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/managing-software-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 12:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Sterling explores the topic of managing software debt in all software development activities and goes even further than the concept of technical debt as it try to cover all dimensions of software development debt. At every stage of the software development life cycle, we make decisions that have long term consequences. This book provides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management 3.0</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/management-3-0/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/management-3-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I tried to summarize what you get from his book, you can consider Jurgen Appelo as the hidden son resulting from a relationship between a Springer Verlag journal’s editor and Mike Cohn, with some influence from Aardman Studios in the education. Jurgen Appelo gives his own assessment of his book at the end, based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptive Project Framework</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/adaptive-project-framework/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/adaptive-project-framework/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the author says, many project managers prefer to apply an existing recipe for their project. If you are ready to step out of your comfort zone, this book contains many ingredients that will allow you to create your own recipe for to manage software development projects. I strongly recommend this book to every project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jazz Process – Collaboration, Innovation and Agility by Adrian Cho</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/the-jazz-process-%e2%80%93-collaboration-innovation-and-agility-by-adrian-cho/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/the-jazz-process-%e2%80%93-collaboration-innovation-and-agility-by-adrian-cho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I was initially a little bit skeptical on a book about agility coming out from IBM. I was wrong. Although you will find a little bit of “bigblueness” in the content, I really enjoy reading this book that propose a deep and interesting perspective on the team dimension of software development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coaching Agile Teams</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/coaching-agile-teams/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/coaching-agile-teams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transmitting human experience through written material is not easy. As Rachel Davies did in “Agile Coaching”, Lyssa Adkins manages to do it brilliantly in this book that covers the same topic. Based on her own experience of “recovering command-and-control project manager”, she write about all the circumstances where you can coach people, explaining both what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making it Big in Software</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/making-it-big-in-software/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/making-it-big-in-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can read on the back cover of this book “Here’s all the information you need to jumpstart your software career: the best way to get hired, move up, and blaze your way to the top!” There is certainly more marketing ambition than developer modesty in this statement. This being said, this book contains some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/succeeding-with-agile-by-mike-cohn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/succeeding-with-agile-by-mike-cohn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Agile has established itself as the dominant new trend in software development, the number of books that deal with this topic is increasing every day. Besides the fact that Mike Cohn is a recognized expert in the area of agile project management, why should you buy his book rather any other book published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Management</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/reflections-on-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/reflections-on-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This book is composed of papers previously written by Watts Humphrey. The people and management aspects of software development are often neglected in books and this one is a good source to start thinking about them… and improving our practice. The book is structured in four parts: managing your projects, managing your teams, managing your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Agile Software Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-software-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-software-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The goal of this book is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development. To achieve this objective, the authors draw on their own experience in Agile consulting. The book starts with a presentation of Agile and Lean principles. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Iterative Software Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/the-economics-of-iterative-software-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/the-economics-of-iterative-software-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you start reading this book, you will quickly understand that the authors are affiliated with IBM. This is nothing wrong per se, but this seems to influence too much the vision that the book proposes, ignoring approaches proposed by others. Including &#8220;iterative&#8221; in the title seems here to be only a marketing trick used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/growing-object-oriented-software-guided-by-tests/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/growing-object-oriented-software-guided-by-tests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Object orientation (OO) is not a trendy concept these days, but it hasn&#8217;t certainly lost it values. The purpose of this book is to integrate the development of object oriented software with the test-driven development (TDD) approach, more specifically in Java. It starts with an introduction to TDD and the tools (Junit, jMock2) that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Lean Software Development &#8211; Results are not the Point</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/leading-lean-software-development-results-are-not-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/leading-lean-software-development-results-are-not-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. The Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read. It might be however easier to have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debug It!</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/debug-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This book provides a structured approach that will help programmers to identify and remove bugs in code. It is based on a four steps process: Reproduce, Diagnose, Fix, Reflect. For each activity, the author provides practical material on how perform it. The second part gives a higher vision of the debugging process and deal with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Project Management</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/agile-project-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/agile-project-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that this book is already at his second edition after a first publication in 2004 says something about its value. In one of his definition of Agile, Jim Highsmith says, &#8220;Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability&#8221;. I will say that his book balances nicely high level thinking and a pragmatic [...]]]></description>
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