Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development

Published November 18th, 2011 Under Process | 1 Comment

I had already very much like the first book written by the same authors “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum†published in 2009. The risk when you have high expectations is being disappointed. It wasn’t the case with this book that is like the first one providing pragmatic advice on how to adopt an agile and lean approach. Read more

Lean Integration

Published October 11th, 2011 Under Process, Project | Leave a Comment

This book is the sequel of a first book titled “Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology” and is aimed at taking it “to the next level by adding more specific best practices and a rich collection of case studies”. The book is divided in three parts. The first part provides an overview of Lean integration. The second part introduces the seven Lean integration principles and the last part discusses lean integration competency areas. Read more

Agile Game Development with Scrum

Published June 10th, 2011 Under Process | 1 Comment

Drawing from his own experience as developer and CTO in the game development industry, Keith Clinton has written a book that provides both an overall vision of the Agile and Scrum approaches combined with a detailed practice of these principles in the specific context of game software development. It gives therefore also a good introduction to the software practices of the gaming industry. I noticed for instance that the customer – outsourcer relationships are not very different from the relationships between game production companies and external developers. Read more

The Jazz Process

Published December 8th, 2010 Under Process | Leave a Comment

I must admit that I was initially a little bit skeptical on a book about agility coming out from IBM. I was wrong. Although you will find a little bit of “bigblueness” in the content, I really enjoy reading this book that propose a deep and interesting perspective on the team dimension of software development with multiple references to the jazz and sports domains. Read more

Making it Big in Software

Published October 20th, 2010 Under Process | Leave a Comment

You can read on the back cover of this book “Here’s all the information you need to jumpstart your software career: the best way to get hired, move up, and blaze your way to the top!” There is certainly more marketing ambition than developer modesty in this statement. This being said, this book contains some valuable information for the computer science student of somebody who is freshly graduated and has just started his professional journey. Read more

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