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One of our central focuses back in our Business Autopsy in July (which we’re now starting to think of as Autopsy 1 - as distinct from the current Autopsy 2), was the fact that our software development processes were not up-to-scratch. read more »
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Well, 17 hours ago I was awake for an IEEE-organised Webinar featuring Kent Beck (founder of Three Rivers Institute) titled “Software G Forces: The Effects of Acceleration” – so I’m beat! Just another long day in a software start-up.
However I wanted to get this blog post up before it slipped my mind (please excuse me for any lack of polish in this one!)
I know that someone recommended I read this one – I apologise for forgetting who it was! Was it you, Justin?
I read this book as it claimed to answer some questions I had been pondering along the lines of “what’s this AGILE thing all about?” .
Shane’s review helped, but I still had loads more questions – as a result of which we loaded up our Amazon cart with quite a few books on the topic, of which this is the first I have reviewed.
This book is written as a fictional tale of two separate software development projects within the same large company – one using “Lean and Agile” Software Development, and one using a more traditional (e.g. waterfall) approach.
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The Book |
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 “A Tale of Two Systems”by Michael K Levine |
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| Full Disclosure – yes, that’s a tracked link to Amazon shown above. We buy quite a large number of books on a wide range of topics, all relevant to our business in some way. If you did happen to purchase the book from Amazon, they’d throw a few shekels our way, which would help us to buy (and hence publish reviews of) even more books. Hence, Karma would return the benefits to you… |
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As a novel, this book certainly does NOT qualify as “Un-Put-Down-Able”.