Software Development Books

Just Enough Software Architecture

sdbooks — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:05:32 +0000

Is there a middle way between the traditional Big Architecture Upfront and the Natural Architecture Emergence proposed by some Agile developers? This is the goal of this book that tries to provide guidelines and models on how to include just enough architecture in your software development activities. George Fairbanks proposes to use the risks faced [...]

Specification by Example

sdbooks — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:27:49 +0000

Specification by Example is a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure the right product is delivered effectively. This book is based on the research of 30 teams that implemented 50 projects. The first part of the book introduces the Specification by Example concept… with examples, showing what are the [...]

Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development

sdbooks — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:35:22 +0000

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 [...]

Lean Integration

sdbooks — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:34:39 +0000

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. [...]

Documenting Software Architectures

sdbooks — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:13:01 +0000

The fist thing that I liked about this book on documenting software architectures is that the authors know how to write. It is both easy to read and well structured. The book provides a reading guide for the different categories of readers (architect, novice and stakeholders). There are also many pointers and quotes in the [...]

Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust

sdbooks — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:13:25 +0000

The late Watts S. Humphrey has been an important personality of the software development world. He led the development of the Software Capability Maturity Model (CMMI), an internationally recognized standard in the field of software process improvement. The title of his last book is a little bit misleading as it is mainly focused on the [...]

Agile Game Development with Scrum

sdbooks — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:20:43 +0000

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 [...]

Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development

sdbooks — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:04:33 +0000

Acceptance tests are defined in this book as the test created by the customer in collaboration with the developer and the tester prior to implementation. They are not the traditional user acceptance tests performed after implementation. Although acceptance tests can be used at different development stages, Ken Pugh proposes mainly in this book an approach [...]

Agile Software Requirements

sdbooks — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:53:17 +0000

Although many might tend to limit the concept of agile requirements to “user stories”, this book reminds us that there could be more than just a post-it on an information radiator when we talk about requirements. The title of one of the initial chapters is “The Big Picture of Agile Requirements” and this book provides [...]

Management 3.0

sdbooks — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:23:30 +0000

In his foreword, Robert C. Martin wrote that he hates management book, but “this book is smart”. I think that this book might be smart because Jurgen is smart. To start with a full disclosure, I have to say that I know Jurgen Appelo since the beginning of 2008 when he wrote is first article [...]