Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam

In more recent months, I’ve read a number of books on the topic (seems to be gaining prevalence, at least in terms of people willing to write – and buy – books).

Not that I mind, because it’s an approach that’s close to our heart.

The Book	What we thought
“Little Bets – How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries” by Peter Sims	Worth reading

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In recent times we have been exploring various software development methodologies to correct some of the issues that have arisen.

As Shane noted with respect to the development of NEM-Watch 8, we screwed up, and caused clients unneeded angst, and ourselves unnecessary stress.

When the company started (10 years ago now), we sort of “happened upon” an iterative development methodology that worked for us, much of the time.  However with employee turnover and a lack of specific focus, we were not religious in its application – leading to issues such as these.

This is one book of many on Agile that we are in the process of reviewing as one step in our strategy to refine our approach to development.

1)  Binary Review

The Book	What we thought
“User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development” by Mike Cohn	Very good content (and well written)

Read most of this book within a day out of the office, so it is an easy read – and very worthwhile.

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