Exploring Extreme Programming
Thinking Beyond Lean, Michael A. Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka, Free Press, 1998. The subtitle is “How multi-project management is transforming product development at Toyota and other companies,” and that pretty much says what it is. Once you have lean approaches, Continue reading Review – Thinking Beyond Lean
Starting Fit To use fit, you create a web page that has tables in it; the tables specify tests. (There are other options but that is easiest.) In this case, I’m using Microsoft Word™ and saving the file in HTML Continue reading Fit Spreadsheet – Output
Ward Cunningham has created an acceptance testing framework known as fit. (See http://fit.c2.com for more details.) In this brief experiment, we’ll use tests to help specify a simple spreadsheet for strings. Continue reading Fit Spreadsheet
Results from the Heart: How Mini-Company Management Captures Everyone’s Talents …, Kiyoshi Suzaki, Free Press, 2002. It’s kind of hard to classify this book. It’s from a lean manufacturing consultant, but it’s geared to the whole organization. Suzaki argues that Continue reading Review – Results from the Heart
Coaching: The ASTD Trainer’s Sourcebook, Dennis Kinlaw, McGraw-Hill, 1996. This is focused on “life coaching,” but there are good thoughts on characteristics of coaches and coaching. It’s designed to provide you materials for a variety of workshop formats. I wouldn’t Continue reading Review – Coaching (ASTD)
One Page Management, Riaz Khadem and Robert Lorber, Quill, 1998. This is clearly in the One Minute Manager family of books, and shares their style of having a good nugget of information wrapped in a story you can read in Continue reading Review – One-Page Management
The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management, Tom DeMarco, Dorset House, 1997. A thought experiment in novel form: what would happen if we could run the same project multiple ways in a project management laboratory? The main character keeps a Continue reading Review – The Deadline
Dynamics of Software Development, Jim McCarthy. Microsoft Press, 1995. Rules of thumb from a key player on the Visual C++ team: how to ship great software on time. Similar in tone to The Pragmatic Programmer, but aimed more at managers Continue reading Review – Dynamics of Software Development
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, Jim Collins. HarperCollins, 2001. Collins and his team set criteria for how to identify a good company that became great (a transformation sustaining value substantially above its industry). Continue reading Review – Good to Great
Quality Software Management, Volume 2: First-Order Measurement, Gerald M. Weinberg, Dorset House, 1997. First-order measurement is the use of back-of-the-envelope calculations sufficient for building something. Weinberg relates Satir’s interaction model (intake, meaning, significance, and response) to software management. The author Continue reading Review – Quality Software Management, vol. 2: First-Order Measurement