Software development books reviews
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
