By: Bill Wagner I don’t often review business books here, but “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and why it matters”, by Richard Rumelt is an exception. For my audience, the best feature is that Rumelt is an engineer by training. He explains strategy …
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By: Bill Wagner Over the holidays, I read “Driving Technical Change”, by Terrance Ryan. The subtitle providers a great abstract for the book: “Why People on Your Team Don’t Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should.” This book will give y…
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By: Bill Wagner If you are running a software development group, you should read The Jazz Process. You may not agree with everything, but it will make you think. Adrian Cho uses a jazz combo as a metaphor for a high-functioning software development group. Throug…
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By: Bill Wagner Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s latest book on Lean Software is aimed not at a development audience, but rather at the people that lead development projects. It answers two questions for leaders of Development organizations: Should you ado…
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By: Bill Wagner During my recent vacation, I read the final print version of Essential LINQ, by Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni. Normally, I try to answer the question, “Who should read this book?” That answer eluded me on this book, due to the thorough treat…
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By: Dianne Marsh People ask us frequently what we read. We've just added a Book Review section to our site. We'll add these as we read books that we think others might enjoy reading as well.
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By: Bill Wagner I’m covering two books by Mike Cohn in this post: User Stories Applied, and Agile Estimating and Planning. I’m reviewing them together because I read both of them at the same time, and some of the content is inter-twined in my own mind. Both book…
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By: Bill Wagner I don’t think Working With Legacy Code gets the respect and readership that it should. I believe that’s because most of us have a working definition of legacy code that implies something we want to avoid: We want to work on the cool n…
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By: Bill Wagner I was recently notified that the 3rd edition of the C# Programming Language is out. This version has is new in several ways. Obviously, it includes a description of all the new C# 3.0 language features. In addition, a number of people were…
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By: Bill Wagner Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to CashA while back, I read Mary and Tom Poppendieck's "Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash". That tag line, "From Concept to Cash", is the thesis fo…
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