Exploring Extreme Programming
Break the Safe, from Mattel. This is a cooperative game: you work together as a team. Your job is to race around, disable booby traps, and collect keys to the safe. You have to avoid the guard and the guard Continue reading Review – Break the Safe
Card Games Around the World, Sid Sackson. Dover, 1994. This book contains a few dozen card games, arranged by the area of the world in which they originated (with little claim to deep scholarship). There are a couple original games Continue reading Review – Card Games Around the World
Family Fun & Games, the Diagram Group. Sterling Pub. Co., 1992. This is a solid 800-page collection of traditional games: cards, dice, mancala, and so on. Many games have a page of descriptive text, and a page of pictures. Some Continue reading Review – Family Fun and Games
The Agile Manager’s Guide to Coaching to Maximize Performance, Jack Cullen and Len D’Innocenzo. Velocity Business Publishing, 1999. This is a slim volume with a few nice ideas about coaching from a supervisor or manager’s perspective. It’s not “deep” into Continue reading Review – The Agile Manager’s Guide to Coaching to Maximize Performance
Marketing High Technology: An Insider’s View, William H. Davidow. Free Press, 1986. The examples are dated, but the message is not: this book is about the importance of market segments and selling a whole product. (Reviewed Nov., 2004)
Agile Project Management with Scrum, Ken Schwaber. Microsoft Press, 2004. This book presents stories from several software teams adopting Scrum. It takes stories from several perspectives such as “The Product Owner” or “Scaling Projects using Scrum.” What I like best Continue reading Review – Agile Project Management with Scrum
Developing Technical Training: A Structured Approach for the Development of Classroom and Computer-Based Instructional Materials, Ruth Colvin Clark. Addison Wesley, 1989. Clark provides a framework for thinking about content and performance. On one dimension is “Apply vs. Remember”; on the Continue reading Review – Developing Technical Training
The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers® from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit®Philip E. Orbanes, Harvard Business School Press, 2004. ISBN 1-59139-269-1.This book tells the story of the company from its founding by George Parker, through growth and management Continue reading Review – The Game Makers
Game Inventor’s Handbook, Steve Peek. F&W Publications, 1993. ISBN 1-55870-315-2. The “Game Inventor’s Marketing Handbook” would be a more accurate title. Other than one fairly light chapter on inventing games, the focus of this book is on selling and marketing Continue reading Review – Game Inventor’s Handbook
Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, Ron Jeffries. Microsoft Press, 2004. ISBN 0735619492. Ron uses the vehicle of learning C# to demonstrate the incremental design of an XML editor. He adds “undo” last (a feature often cited as requiring up-front design), Continue reading Review – Extreme Programming Adventures in C#