Software Best Practices

I'm going on some long needed (and hard earned) vacation. I won't be blogging again for about one month (so this will likely be my only entry for July). I've got a lot of REALLY GREAT and interesting books to try and catch up on. I hope to blog about them when I return. Here is what's...

My review of Jim Brosseau's Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success is available in the May issue of the Agile Journal . It is nothing less than outstanding! I found Software Teamwork to be an immensely helpful, intensely practical, profusely insightful field guide to improving team outcomes...

My review of The Art of Agile Development is in the January 2008 issue of the Agile Journal This is an amazing book! The Art of Agile Development is nothing less than 10+ years' worth of agile development experience distilled into a single compendium of practical insight and mindful application of...

During my hiatus from this blog since the summer, I still managed to keep up with a few of my book reviews for The Agile Journal . Here they are (with hyperlinks) ... Flexible Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets by Preston G. Smith published September 2007 by Jossey-Bass My rating: Very...

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, by Gerard Meszaros (Addison-Wesley Signature Series, May 2007) is nothing short of FANTASTIC! As I'm reading through the book, I keep saying to myself "Yes!" and "Aha!" over and over again. This book is very appropros for me right now...

I'm behind in a lot of reading and am finally catching up. As a result I be blogging a LOT about books this month. I have all of the following books (most of which are brand spanking new) that I'll be trying to blog about this summer: Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and...

[last update: 27-April-2007] For a colleague at work, I compiled a list of resources covering Lean principles & practices, their integration with Six Sigma and/or Agile development methods, and the application of Lean to software development. I thought others might find it useful, so here it is ...

Dean Leffingwell , previously known for his book Managing Software Requirements: a Use-case driven approach has just published a new book entitled Scaling Software Agility: Best-Practices for Large Enterprises . He also has a corresponding Scaling Software Agility blog . See the forthcoming reviews on...