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Archive for February, 2002

February 8, 2002

Software for Your Head

If you are serious about your profession, if you are serious about teamwork, if you are serious about success, please read this book.

February 5, 2002

Categories:
Book Review, XP Magazine

Updated to include our first review of Java Tools for eXtreme Programming. These books are all about agile software development, even those written before the term existed. They’re all worth having and reading, more than once. Dig in!

February 2, 2002

Categories:
Book Review, XP Magazine

Book Reviews IV

Chet and Ron have been working with Ruby, because it’s the nearest thing there is to Smalltalk. Here are the books we use.

Developer Quality! … and Certification?

Uncle Bob Martin comments on “Developer Certification WTF?” in a recent blog entry. Let’s talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.

Choose Tools to Increase Skill

Choose your tools wisely, that they allow for the development of your skill.

Problems with Acceptance Testing (combined)

Jim Shore has written a short item with the above title. Let’s think about it a bit.

Book Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft

Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.

What is really essential?

Jens Meydam asked “What do you really care about in Scrum?” I decided to answer, instead, “What do you think is really essential in Scrum-style software development?