Exploring Extreme Programming
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Stephen R. Covey. Fireside, 1989. I avoided this book for a long time, just assuming it was a rehash of personal-affirmation type platitudes. Instead, I found the habits and the book to be Continue reading Review – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
A word-stack puzzle on programming languages. Continue reading Programming Language Puzzle
Clean Code, Bob Martin, Prentice-Hall, 2008. Bob Martin tackles the challenges of making code sparkling clean. He provides numerous guidelines, and demonstrates their utility in action. I particularly appreciated some of the longer examples where he really works them over. Continue reading Review – Clean Code
Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Volume 4: Data Structuring, Raymond T. Yeh, editor. Prentice-Hall, 1978. In parallel with “structured programming,” (which often focused on code structure), there was more esoteric work done on “structured data.” A lot of this found Continue reading Review – Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Vol. 4: Data Structuring
Industrial Logic (Joshua Kerievsky) XP Playing Cards Design Patterns Playing Cards PairDraw Extreme Hour (Peter Merel) XP Game (Belgian XP User’s Group) Planning Poker (James Grenning) NASAGA
Teamwork is an Individual Skill, Chris Avery. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001. Chris spoke at the Agile a couple years ago, and I really enjoyed his talk. He explores many themes: teamwork, feedback, commitment, collaboration, trust. His perspective is that individual skills Continue reading Review – Teamwork is an Individual Skill
ScrumGathering ’07 trip report. Continue reading ScrumGathering ’07
Example stories. Continue reading Stories for SideReel.com
Schools of Software Testing. Continue reading Schools of Software Testing (Pettichord)
Portfolio perspective. Continue reading Project Portfolios and Agile