Twenty Ways to Split Stories
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Author Archives: Bill Wake
Review – Refactoring to Patterns
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
Review – Lean Solutions
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
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 Continue reading Review – Revolutionizing Product Development
Review – Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark. MIT Press, 2000. Modularity creates value both at the level of systems and at the level of organizations. Baldwin and Clark describe a number of Continue reading Review – Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
Review – Requirements by Collaboration
Requirements by Collaboration, Ellen Gottesdiener. ISBN 0-201-78606-0. Addison-Wesley, 2002. Workshops are an effective place to capture requirements – getting the right people in the room, working together well, they can reach important agreements about what is needed. This book focuses Continue reading Review – Requirements by Collaboration
Review – Balancing Agility and Discipline
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed. Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. Addison-Wesley, 2004. Overall, this is a balanced treatment “agile” and “plan-driven” methods. (My biggest complaint is the title; if it had been “Balancing Agility and Planning” Continue reading Review – Balancing Agility and Discipline
Review – Managing Agile Projects
Managing Agile Projects, Sanjiv Augustine. Addison-Wesley, 2005. Sanjiv answers the question, “What do managers do on an agile team?” to say that they have many functions: team building, alignment, adaptation, and more. I particularly appreciated the chapter on using a Continue reading Review – Managing Agile Projects
Review – Funny Noises for the Connoisseur
Funny Noises for the Connoisseur, by Bart Hopkin with Ray Brunelle and Vincent Nicastro. Experimental Music Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-9727313-1-8. Book and CD. In 60 pages, the authors explore a bunch of ways to make some very odd sounds. There Continue reading Review – Funny Noises for the Connoisseur
Review – The Victorian Internet
The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage. Berkley Press, 1998. A history of the telegraph, from its creation on. The author relates the initial optimism about the telegraph to the similar hype about the Internet – as a tool for bringing about Continue reading Review – The Victorian Internet