Exploring Extreme Programming
A Software Tools Sampler, Webb Miller. Prentice Hall, 1987. Unix and its tools are still important, even if the modern GUI mostly ignores their abilities. This book provides algorithms and C code for file updating, comparison, searching, and editing. It’s Continue reading Review – A Software Tools Sampler
What can you do with only one button? Continue reading One-Button Games
Fit code, part 5 – ActionFixture. Continue reading Fit Reading (Part 5 of 8) – ActionFixture
Fit code, part 4 – Fixtures. Continue reading Fit Reading (Part 4 of 8) – Fixture
Fit code, part 3. Continue reading Fit Reading (part 3 of 8) – Parse and Fixture
Fit’s code, part 2. Continue reading Fit Reading (Part 2 of 8)
A tour of Fit’s code. Continue reading Fit Reading (part 1 of 8)
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 – Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
Designing Organizations for High Performance, David P. Hanna. Addison-Wesley, 1988. A basic book in the area of Organization Development. Its theories operate at a cultural level as much as a process level. The core is an analysis of tasks, structure, Continue reading Review – Designing Organizations for High Performance
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 Review – Software by Numbers