Coaching Agile Teams

Published November 22nd, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment

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 you should and shouldn’t do.

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Reference: “Coaching Agile Teams”, Lyssa Adkins, 315 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-63770-3

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Making it Big in Software

Published October 20th, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment

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 valuable information for the computer science student of somebody who is freshly graduated and has just started his professional journey.

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Reference: “Making it Big in Software”, Sam Lighstone, 417 pages, IBSN 978-0-13-705967-5

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Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn

Published September 7th, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment

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 on the same topic? After reading it, I will say that not only you should buy it, but rather you HAD to buy it.

This book realistically recognizes that the journey towards being Agile is a long one that requires adaptation efforts, both for your organization and people to Agile and Agile to your organization and people. With this in mind, Mike Cohn provides you with all the tools and information to make this journey as pleasant and successful as possible.

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Reference: “Succeeding with Agile”, Mike Cohn, Addison-Wesley, 463 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-57936-2

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Reflections on Management

Published August 17th, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment

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 boss and managing yourself. In each part, it presents both general principles and real life examples or stories taken from Watts Humphrey career. This makes the book very easy to read as we can connect the theory to situations that we have met in our professional life.

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Reference: “Reflections on Management – How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself”, Watts S. Humphrey and William R. Thomas Addison-Wesley, 260 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-71153-3

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Lean Agile Software Development

Published June 9th, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment

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. Read more

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