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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

API Design for C++

rleir — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:25:25 +0000

API Design for C++, Martin Reddy, – 2011

Programmers will want to read this. The author has experience with large systems at Pixar, but this book is not about animation. It is about software architecture and design. Here is the contents, and here is the author’s excellent blog. 400 pages.

The Lean Startup

rleir — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:59:57 +0000

The Lean Startup – How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries, 2011

Entrepreneurs will want to read this book. It explains the processes needed in a startup to avoid chaos and succeed. The book is recommended by several well known entrepreneurs. Hardcover, 300 pages.

The Clean Coder

rleir — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:06:15 +0000

The Clean Coder – A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, Robert Martin, – 2011

Programmers will want to read this book before their first day on the job. It is a practical guide to being productive as a programmer. However well written this book is, the author’s experience is from the 20th century, and there is no mention of Agile methods other than test driven development and a brief mention of pair programming. The index is incorrect. 200 pages.

Winning at New Products

rleir — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:17:39 +0000

Winning at New Products – Creating Value through Innovation, Robert Cooper, – 2011

Business strategists and innovators will want to read this book. It is not specific to technology products. 350 pages.

Practical Software Project Estimation

rleir — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:59:23 +0000

Practical Software Project Estimation – A Toolkit for Estimating Software Development Effort & Duration, Peter R. Hill, McGraw-Hill, 2011

Estimation is a black art, but this book tries to help make it more objective. The authors have experience with IT software. Hardcover, 250 pages.

Agile Testing

rleir — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:48:15 +0000

Agile Testing – A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Lisa Crispin, Addison-Wesley, 2009

This book for software testers and managers who are transitioning from waterfall to agile. It discusses the processes needed to organize a testing group. It is not for programmers, and is not intended to teach test driven development. 500 pages.

UML for the IT Business

rleir — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:06:42 +0000

UML for the IT Business Analyst – A Practical Guide to Requirements Gathering Using the Unified Modeling Language, Howard Podeswa, – 2010

An approach to requirements gathering. 350 pages.

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.