Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Published May 23rd, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
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 recommend this book to all project members that want to improve their communication with end users and achieve a better understanding of requirements.
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Reference: ” Managing Software Debt – Building for Inevitable Change “, of Chris Sterling, Addison-Wesley, 228 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-55413-0
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Managing Software Debt
Published May 3rd, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
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 meaningful insights on how to prevent creating too much debt and how to reduce the existing burden. I will recommend it to everybody who is concerned with software quality with a longer view than the end of the next iteration.
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Reference: ” Managing Software Debt – Building for Inevitable Change “, of Chris Sterling, Addison-Wesley, 228 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-55413-0
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Management 3.0
Published March 14th, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
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 on the quote that “all models are wrong but some are useful” He says “It makes no sense discussing which idea is wrong, because they all are. The real challenge is in finding which ideas is useful in what context”.
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Reference: “Management 3.0, Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders”, Jurgen Appelo, Addison-Wesley, 391pages, IBSN 978-0-321-71247-9
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Adaptive Project Framework
Published January 25th, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
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 manager and software development manager that wants to have better tools to manage change.
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Reference: “Adaptive Project Framework, Managing Complexity in the Face of Uncertainty”, Robert K. Wysocki, Addison-Wesley, 355 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-52561-1
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The Jazz Process – Collaboration, Innovation and Agility by Adrian Cho
Published December 9th, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment
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 with multiple references to the jazz and sports domains.
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Reference: “The Jazz Process – Collaboration, Innovation and Agility”, Adrian Cho, Addison-Wesley, 278 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-63654-4
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