Exploring Extreme Programming
Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn. Pearson Education, 2006. My back-cover review was “Mike Cohn explains his approach to Agile planning, and shows how ‘critical chain’ thinking can be used to effectively buffer both schedule and features. As with User Continue reading Review – Agile Estimating and Planning
Musical Improv Comedy, Michael Pollock. Masteryear Publishing, 2003. This is a slim volume, about 100 pages, plus a CD. Being able to improvise songs on demand is a skill that appeals to me. This book certainly didn’t make me an Continue reading Review – Musical Improv Comedy
A puzzle about games. Continue reading Game Word Stack Puzzle
Game Design – Theory & Practice (2/e), Richard Rouse III. Wordware, 2005. This book is a somewhat sprawling look at game design. Its focus is on electronic games. It covers “what players want,” gameplay, artificial intelligence, story-telling, and game documentation Continue reading Review – Game Design
Call your shot, then do it. Continue reading Calling Your Shot
NASAGA ’05. Continue reading NASAGA ’05 Trip Report
There are a number of dimensions along which you can split stories. Continue reading Twenty Ways to Split Stories
Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky. Addison-Wesley, 2005. Design patterns and refactoring have been related for a long time. (Consider that Ralph Johnson, one of the co-authors of Design Patterns, was a sponsor of the work that created the original refactoring Continue reading Review – Refactoring to Patterns
Lean Solutions, James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. Free Press, 2005. These are the authors of The Machine that Changed the World. (The “machine” was lean production.) In this book, they expand on the idea of “lean consumption.” Their Continue reading Review – Lean Solutions
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 Continue reading Review – Revolutionizing Product Development