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Review – Agile Product Management with Scrum (Pichler)
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love, by Roman Pichler. Addison-Wesley, 2010. This is a fairly easy read (about 120 pages) explaining the role of the Product Owner in Scrum. I'd describe the target as "someone preparing … Continue reading
Review – The Product Manager’s Handbook, by Linda Gorchels
The Product Manager’s Handbook, by Linda Gorchels. McGraw-Hill, 2005. This is a basic book on product management (an area which has a shortage of material). It talks about the role of product managers, planning, maintaining a portfolio, new products, pricing, … Continue reading
Review – Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques. Chris Gane and Trish Sarson. Prentice Hall, 1979. This is one of the classic books on systems analysis: data flow diagrams, data dictionary, and so on appear. It does a decent job explaining these … Continue reading
Using Actuals with Estimates
A way to track estimates. Continue reading
Review – The Toyota Product Development System
The Toyota Product Development System, James M. Morgan and Jeffrey K. Liker, Productivity Press, 2006. Toyota's lean manufacturing system has had a lot of press, but lean influences their product development approach as well. This book emphasizes the system aspects … Continue reading
Agile '06 Workshop: Example-Based Specifications
Exploring example-based specifications. Continue reading
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Extreme Test Makeover – Agile ’06
Lessons for Fit. Continue reading
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Review – Revolutionizing Product Development
Revolutionizing Product Development, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark. Free Press, 1992.Product management can work better by tailoring its approach to the reality of the project. Building a new platform is fundamentally different from creating a follow-on for a … Continue reading
Semantics of Fit: A Path Toward New Tools
Fit’s standard interpretation tells us how well a program does against a set of test cases. We can design new semantics for reporters (that give us interesting information) and for rewriters (that make interesting transformations of our tests). Continue reading
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Review – Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
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 – Software by Numbers
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