Exploring Extreme Programming
Revolutionizing Product Development, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark. Free Press, 1992. Product management can work better by tailoring its approach to the reality of the project. Building a new platform is fundamentally different from creating a follow-on for Continue reading Review – Revolutionizing Product Development
Fit’s standard interpretation tells us how well a program does against a set of test cases. We can design new semantics for reporters (that give us interesting information) and for rewriters (that make interesting transformations of our tests). Continue reading Semantics of Fit: A Path Toward New Tools
Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, Michael N. Kennedy. Manning, 2004. Toyota’s lean manufacturing gets a lot of attention. But there’s also a Toyota approach to product development that’s less well known (though Mary Poppendieck does talk about it). This Continue reading Review – Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
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
Working story by story lets you create value in independent pieces. You can bundle or unbundle these to meet your needs. Continue reading Customer Value – Unbundling
Consider both short-term and long-term value when selecting stories to implement. Continue reading Customer Value: Short-Term and Long-Term
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
XP and Scrum project plans can operate with less detail than traditional project plans; this is like a fisheye lens, which shows more detail about things close to the center. Continue reading Fisheye Lens Project Management
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
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