Fit Reading (part 1 of 8)
A tour of Fit’s code. Continue reading Fit Reading (part 1 of 8)
Exploring Extreme Programming
A tour of Fit’s code. Continue reading Fit Reading (part 1 of 8)
Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, Michael N. Kennedy. Manning, 2004. Toyota’s lean manufacturing gets a lot of attention. But there’s also a Toyota approach to product development that’s less well known (though Mary Poppendieck does talk about it). This Continue reading Review – Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
Designing Organizations for High Performance, David P. Hanna. Addison-Wesley, 1988. A basic book in the area of Organization Development. Its theories operate at a cultural level as much as a process level. The core is an analysis of tasks, structure, Continue reading Review – Designing Organizations for High Performance
Software by Numbers, Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang. Prentice-Hall, 2004. An MMF – “minimal marketable feature” – represents a unit of functionality that has value. This book shows how incremental delivery and incremental funding of MMFs can work together to Continue reading Review – Software by Numbers
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, Pete Seeger. Lancaster Press. 1997. ISBN 1-881322-10-6 The subtitle is “A Musical Autobiography,” and that’s what it is. It’s chock-full of songs (both words and music) and reminiscences of a long life. It gave Continue reading Review – Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
MouthSounds: How to whistle, pop, boing, and honk, Fred Newman. Workman Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0761134220. I love books that are a smorgasbord, and this one certainly qualifies. Flip to any page, and you’ll find an interesting sound to make. Great Continue reading Review – MouthSounds
What’s in your team room? I summarize responses from the extremeprogramming newsgroup. Continue reading What’s in Your Team Room?