Exploring Extreme Programming
This is a gallery of team rooms, and the Big Visible Charts/Information Radiators they use. Please send email to William.Wake@acm.org and have yours included! Jump to the oldest photos at the bottom of the page. 18. Team room picture, from Continue reading A Gallery of Team Rooms and Charts
Digital Game-Based Learning, Marc Prensky, McGraw-Hill, 2001. Prensky argues that the new generation of learners has a new way of learning from exposure to MTV and video games, but teaching hasn’t kept up. He describes aspects of games and how Continue reading Review – Digital Game-Based Learning
These patterns (or perhaps proto-patterns) discuss how to use iteration retrospectives as a way of helping a team reflect on and learn from the project while it’s still going on. Continue reading Patterns for Iteration Retrospectives
Improve your ability to see how the organization of a room facilitates or hinders communication. Continue reading Floor Plan
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. Addison-Wesley, 2003. This book considers software development from the perspective of lean manufacturing, as popularized by Toyota. In lean approaches, there is a sense in which there is a Continue reading Review – Lean Software Development (Poppendieck and Poppendieck)
That’s Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships. Deborah Tannen, Balantine Books, 1986. This is a mass-market book on sociolinguistics. When we talk, there is a message (our words) and a metamessage (our actions). The metamessage Continue reading Review – That’s Not What I Meant!
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. Penguin Books, 1999. Their model is that a difficult conversation has three aspects: “what happened,” “feelings,” and “identity.” When these are mixed together, it can Continue reading Review – Difficult Conversations
XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each. Continue reading INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks
Quality Software Management, Volume 4: Anticipating Change, Gerald M. Weinberg, Dorset House, 1997. This book contains advice for people who are trying to be change artists, those who change their world. One technique they use is to provide a number Continue reading Review – Quality Software Management, vol. 4: Anticipating Change
What are some books recommended for agile coaches? Continue reading Books for Coaches