Index of ‘Book Review’ Articles

February 8, 2002

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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

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Book Reviews V

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

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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.

January 28, 2002

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Book Reviews III

A detective in puce, mentoring, massive parallel processing, and two books on writing. What more could you want?

January 28, 2002

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Book Reviews II

Chet looks at some humor and some ancient architecture. We leave it to you to figure out which is which.

January 20, 2002

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Book Reviews I

This is the first of a regular series of book reviews. We’ll only review books we have read, and we’ll call them the way we see them. This time we look at five books, ranging from XSLT to the world of Dream. Updated to add a sixth on time management

December 31, 2001

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Book Reviews

In this review, Extreme Programming Installed, Planning Extreme Programming, Extreme Programming Explained, The Humane Interface, and Adaptive Software Development.

November 8, 2001

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What is Extreme Programming?

Extreme Programming is a discipline of software development based on values of simplicity, communication, feedback, and courage. It works by bringing the whole team together in the presence of simple practices, with enough feedback to enable the team to see where they are and to tune the practices to their unique situation.

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Scrum Information Base — Agile Skills

Chet Hendrickson and I have offered to help the Scrum Alliance build a broad and growing base of information relating to Scrum / Agile, and to the many skills and practices that can help teams be successful. Our offer has…

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At Agile2011, I brought along a “gift”, a nicely formatted and illustrated Kate Oneal story. I gave a copy to everyone who asked for one, and to a few people who didn’t but who I wanted…

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