Clean Agile: Back to BasicsRobert C. MartinPrentice Hall, 2019 Bob Martin begins this book by describing it as his personal recollections, rather than a work of research. He starts by pointing out that agile software development started as a way of describing what had worked for some small development teams working on reasonably small projects.… Read More »
One of the design ideas that came out of the early days of the agile movement was YAGNI. As I have written before, this idea is push back against the tendency of many programmers to over-engineer or over-complicate our designs. We normally use some variation of the flexibility argument to justify this tendency. In fact,… Read More »
I enjoy reading the Worse Than Failure site as an antidote for programmer arrogance. While a junior programmer might look down on the people who made the reported mistakes, those of us who have been in the business for a while can recognize many of the mistakes. They still make a good laugh. A few… Read More »
Questioning Extreme Programming Pete McBreen Addison-Wesley, 2003 This book starts off with the premise that XP is really not appropriate for many projects. However, far from being a bash XP session, it turns into a very hard-nosed look at many methodologies. He compares many of the strengths and weaknesses of the major development methodologies in… Read More »