Exploring Extreme Programming
Some unit tests are focused, other are like a run-on sentence. How can we create tests that are focused and communicate well? Arrange-act-assert is a pattern for good tests. What’s a good structure for a unit test? 3A: Arrange, Act, Continue reading 3A – Arrange, Act, Assert
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love, by Roman Pichler. Addison-Wesley, 2010. This is a fairly easy read (about 120 pages) explaining the role of the Product Owner in Scrum. I’d describe the target as “someone preparing Continue reading Review – Agile Product Management with Scrum (Pichler)
Portfolio perspective. Continue reading Project Portfolios and Agile
Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn. Pearson Education, 2006. My back-cover review was “Mike Cohn explains his approach to Agile planning, and shows how ‘critical chain’ thinking can be used to effectively buffer both schedule and features. As with User Continue reading Review – Agile Estimating and Planning
Requirements by Collaboration, Ellen Gottesdiener. ISBN 0-201-78606-0. Addison-Wesley, 2002. Workshops are an effective place to capture requirements – getting the right people in the room, working together well, they can reach important agreements about what is needed. This book focuses Continue reading Review – Requirements by Collaboration
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed. Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. Addison-Wesley, 2004. Overall, this is a balanced treatment “agile” and “plan-driven” methods. (My biggest complaint is the title; if it had been “Balancing Agility and Planning” Continue reading Review – Balancing Agility and Discipline
Managing Agile Projects, Sanjiv Augustine. Addison-Wesley, 2005. Sanjiv answers the question, “What do managers do on an agile team?” to say that they have many functions: team building, alignment, adaptation, and more. I particularly appreciated the chapter on using a Continue reading Review – Managing Agile Projects
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
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2/e, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. ISBN 0321278658. Kent Beck’s new introduction to the practices and philosophy of XP. See an extended summary. (Reviewed Feb., ’05)
Crystal Clear, Alistair Cockburn. Addison-Wesley, 2004. Crystal Clear is a software method that uses frequent delivery, reflective improvement, and osmotic communication as guard rails to guide a team in development. This book presents a number of perspectives on the methods; Continue reading Review – Crystal Clear