Fit Reading (part 1 of 8)
A tour of Fit’s code. Continue reading Fit Reading (part 1 of 8)
Author Archives: Bill Wake
Review – Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
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
Review – Designing Organizations for High Performance
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
Review – Software by Numbers
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
Review – Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, Pete Seeger. Lancaster Press. 1997. ISBN 1-881322-10-6 The subtitle is “A Musical Autobiography,” and that’s what it is. It’s chock-full of songs (both words and music) and reminiscences of a long life. It gave Continue reading Review – Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Review – MouthSounds
MouthSounds: How to whistle, pop, boing, and honk, Fred Newman. Workman Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0761134220. I love books that are a smorgasbord, and this one certainly qualifies. Flip to any page, and you’ll find an interesting sound to make. Great Continue reading Review – MouthSounds
What’s in Your Team Room?
What’s in your team room? I summarize responses from the extremeprogramming newsgroup. Continue reading What’s in Your Team Room?
Review – JUnit Recipes
JUnit Recipes, JB Rainsberger. Manning, 2004. If test-driven development makes sense, but you need help in particular areas, this book provides it. JB covers everything from basic object testing to patterns, databases, XML, servlets, and more J2EE. Well-written and highly Continue reading Review – JUnit Recipes
Review – The Seven-Day Weekend
The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler. Portfolio, 2004. “Empowerment” has been a buzzword, but Semler makes it happen in his organization. He encourages people to make their own decisions and take the consequences, and puts that in action in “his” company. Continue reading Review – The Seven-Day Weekend
Cutting with the Grain: The Rhythms of Design
As a result of Kent Beck’s “Programming Intensive” workshop, Kent, Joseph Leddy, and I created a paper on one small aspect of design. Continue reading Cutting with the Grain: The Rhythms of Design