Exploring Extreme Programming
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
Training Within Industry as a source for lean ideas. Continue reading The Roots of Lean – Kaizen
What’s the focus? Continue reading Schwerpunkt = Focal Point
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
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
What’s in your team room? I summarize responses from the extremeprogramming newsgroup. Continue reading What’s in Your Team Room?
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising, Addison-Wesley, 2005. How do you help a new idea along? This book uses patterns to suggest ways to make that happen. The first part of the book Continue reading Review – Fearless Change
A trip report from OOPSLA ’04, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 24-28. Continue reading OOPSLA ’04 Trip Report
The Scrum gathering was a workshop gathered for a couple days in Denver, this past October [’04]. We worked in three groups: metrics, process, and facilitation. Continue reading Scrum Gathering Oct ’04
The Agile Manager’s Guide to Coaching to Maximize Performance, Jack Cullen and Len D’Innocenzo. Velocity Business Publishing, 1999. This is a slim volume with a few nice ideas about coaching from a supervisor or manager’s perspective. It’s not “deep” into Continue reading Review – The Agile Manager’s Guide to Coaching to Maximize Performance