Exploring Extreme Programming
Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, Ron Jeffries. Microsoft Press, 2004. ISBN 0735619492. Ron uses the vehicle of learning C# to demonstrate the incremental design of an XML editor. He adds “undo” last (a feature often cited as requiring up-front design), Continue reading Review – Extreme Programming Adventures in C#
LogicaCMG’s experience with getting ISO 9000 certification for an XP team. Continue reading ISO Certification for XP at LogicaCMG
User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn. Addison-Wesley, 2004. This book is all about user stories, focused on the XP-style customer or the Scrum-style product owner (although programmers and others should know this material as well). Mike describes what stories are, how Continue reading Review – User Stories Applied
When you get blocked, do you get help, or hide and hope things will get better?. Continue reading The Humble “Yo!”
Leadership is an Art, by Max DePree. This is a thin “inspirational” book (you have to be in a certain mood), written by the CEO of Herman Miller (the furniture company). You can read it in a sitting, but it’s Continue reading Review – Leadership is an Art
Refactorings are often described as transformations that preserve semantics, but they still may require new tests. Continue reading Refactorings Require New Tests
Agile Management for Software Engineering, David J. Anderson. Prentice Hall, 2004. This book applies throughput accounting to software development. (This approach originated in Theory of Constraints and fits with lean manufacturing) Throughput accounting focuses on the rate of sales as Continue reading Review – Agile Management
Self-Working Handkerchief Magic, Karl Fulves. Dover Press, 1988. Fulves has a number of collections of simple magic tricks. I enjoy playing with some of them even though I’d never perform them for others. My interest in origami stretches to cloth Continue reading Review – Self-Working Handkerchief Magic
Ant, The Definitive Guide, by Jesse Tilly & Eric M. Burke. O’Reilly, 2002. ISBN 0-596-00184-3. This is a classic O’Reilly animal book showing – what else? – a horned lizard on the cover. But it’s classic member of the series Continue reading Review – Ant
Sometimes it pays to do things twice. Continue reading Scratch Refactoring