May book review: Agile Retrospectives
This month, we continue the theme of team self-reflection and retrospectives started last year with my review of "Project Retrospectives" by Norman Kerth.Esther Derby, Diana LarsenAgile Retrospectives....
View ArticleJune book review: Understanding A3 Thinking
This month, we will continue the theme of A3 Thinking started in April with my review of "Managing to Learn" by John Shook.Durward K. Sobek II and Art SmalleyUnderstanding A3 Thinking. A Critical...
View ArticleJuly book review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick LencioniThe Five Dysfunctions of a TeamKatheryn Petersen is put in charge of DecisionTech, a young promising 150-people Silicon Valley start-up, experiencing a series of disappointments:...
View ArticleAugust book review: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Martin FowlerPatterns of Enterprise Application ArchitectureThis book catalogs a collection of design patterns commonly used when writing business applications: Domain LogicTransaction Script, Table...
View ArticleSeptember book review: Flow
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiFlow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceMihaly defines flow as a state of mind when consciousness is harmoniously ordered and thoughts and actions are congruent with each...
View ArticleOctober book review: Essential WCF
Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris BowenEssential Windows Communication Foundation. For .NET Framework 3.5.This is a well-organized and easy-to-read introductory book on WCF. It provides a thorough...
View ArticleNovember book review: Learning to See
Mike Rother, John ShookLearning to See: Value-Stream Mapping to Create Value and Eliminate MUDAFind this book on Lean.orgA value stream is all the actions required to bring a product or a service to a...
View ArticleDecember book review: Don't Just Roll the Dice
Neil DavidsonDon't Just Roll the Dice: A usefully short guide to software pricingTo download a free eBook, click here.For the month of December, I picked a short fun-to-read book filled with refreshing...
View ArticleBook Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael FeathersWorking Effectively with Legacy CodeLegacy code is defined by Michael Feathers as code that lacks tests. Lack of tests makes the code hard to understand and difficult to change. When...
View ArticleBook Review: Kanban
David AndersonKanban. Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business.Kanban is the latest book by David Anderson, the author of Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the...
View ArticleBook Review: Leading Change
John KotterLeading Change Leading Change is a practical guide to implementing change in a corporate business environment. It is essentially a change process consisting of 8 main stages: Establish a...
View ArticleBook Review: The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the...
James Steele and Nelson ToThe Android Developer's CookbookSmart-phone market and mobile web consumption are exploding. Within the next few years, more users will connect to the Internet over mobile...
View ArticleBook Review: Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
Brian CliftonAdvanced Web Metrics with Google AnalyticsThis is a practical how-to guide to Google Analytics, the most widely used web statistics service. The author did an excellent job covering web...
View ArticleBook Review: Hooked
Nir EyalHooked: How to Build Habit-Forming ProductsEasy-to-read, insightful, and practical book on the Hook Model, a 4-step process to build customer habits. Habit-forming products have competitive...
View ArticleBook Review: Understanding ECMAScript 6
Nicholas ZakasUnderstanding ECMAScript 6ECMAScript 6, aka ES6, is the 6th edition of ECMAScript specification. Released in 2015, ES6 adds many new features for writing complex web applications: Classes...
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