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Agile Product Management with Scrum

rleir — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:12:11 +0000

Agile Product Management with Scrum – Creating Products That Customers Love, Roman Pichler, – 2010

Product managers will want to read this slim book. 100 pages.

Essential Skills for the Agile Developer

rleir — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:42:19 +0000

Essential Skills for the Agile Developer – A Guide to Better Programming and Design, Alan Shalloway, – 2012

Becoming Agile

rleir — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:11:38 +0000

Becoming Agile In An Imperfect World, Greg Smith, Manning, 2009

Team leaders in charge of software projects will want to read this. 350 pages.

Clean Code

rleir — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:40:09 +0000

Clean Code : a Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship / Robert C. Martin ; [with] Michael C. Feathers … [et al.], Prentice Hall, 2009

The programming gods have spoken, and this is the way and the light. The example code is in Java, but the rules and practices should be applied where possible to all languages. 400 pages.

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C♯

rleir — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:31:22 +0000

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C♯ / Robert C. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2007

Developers will want to read this book. With a foreword by Erich Gamma, of Eclipse fame. Hardcover, 700 pages.

Art of Agile Development

rleir — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:53:28 +0000

The Art of Agile Development / James Shore, O’Reilly, 2008

XP programmers and team leaders will find this book useful. 400 pages.

Agile Software Development

rleir — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:23:12 +0000

Agile Software Development : the cooperative game / Alistair Cockburn, Addison-Wesley, 2007

Programmers and team leaders can read this book to become better communicators. 400 pages.

The Productive Programmer

rleir — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:36:34 +0000

The Productive Programmer / Neal Ford, O’Reilly, 2008.

Programmers will find this excellent book useful. It is a companion to `Apprenticeship Patterns`. It stresses the power of the command line. Legendary O’Reilly quality, 200 pages.

Apprenticeship Patterns

rleir — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:39:03 +0000

Apprenticeship Patterns : guidance for the aspiring software craftsman / David H. Hoover, O’Reilly, 2010

If you are planning a career in Agile Software Development, then this book contains good advice. The foreword is by Ward Cunningham. See also the author’s site. This is an Open Book at O’Reilly. 125 pages.

Emergent Design

rleir — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:15:21 +0000

Emergent Design : the evolutionary nature of professional software development / Scott L. Bain, Addison-Wesley, 2008

Here is a textbook on software development. If you can get past the use of the word ‘emergent’, this is a good book. 350 pages, hardcover.