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• andrewcooke · Sep 17, 2013 · Recommends

  i like http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Software-Development-Cooperative... (cockburn's cooperative game), but i am not sure if it's suitable for a library. i guess what i mean is, that i think it's a great book for a developer. but it's not very prescriptive,…

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• shellab · Jan 13, 2014 · Recommends

  The book that really helped me was Agile Software Development by Robert Martin. It outlines some of the best principles for writing software that will be high quality and easy to extend and refactor for years to come.

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• pkoird · Dec 4, 2022 · Recommends

  …Timothy Lister: This book discusses the human side of software development, including how to create effective teams and work environments, and how to avoid common pitfalls such as overwork and burnout. "Agile Software Development" by Alistair Cockburn: This book provides an introduction to agile software development methodologies, which are designed to help teams deliver high-quality software quickly and efficiently. In addition…

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• jdlshore · Jul 1, 2022 · Recommends

  …more towards the theory side of things: Lean Software Development (Mary and Tom Poppendieck) - if you only read one, this is the one to read The Principles of Product Development Flow (Tom Reinertsen) Agile Software Development, 2nd. ed. (Alistair Cockburn) Extreme Programming Explained, 2nd ed. (Kent Beck) The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)

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• JTrilogy · Nov 27, 2016 · Mentions

  …doing back-end web work on a massive spaghetti codebase written in Node, Python, and PHP. My current reading list: * Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction - Steve McConnell * Agile Software Development - Robert C. Martin Upcoming reading list: * Node.js Design Patterns - Mario Casciaro * The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt * Clean Code - Robert C. Martin * Refactoring:…

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• andrewcooke · Jul 22, 2012 · Mentions

  http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Software-Development-Cooperative... http://alistair.cockburn.us/

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• whstl · Jul 29, 2023 · Mentions

  …is a recent revision of the principle by Uncle Bob, from a 2018 book, AFAIK. That's almost 20 years too late (if going by the sources I can find). I can't find mentions of "actors" or similar terms in Agile Software Development or Clean Code. Pretty much every pre-2018 literature says that SRP relates to modules "[having a] single reason to change", or "[not having] too many responsibilities". The examples are always fuzzy and…

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• jdlshore · Mar 31, 2012 · Mentions

  …and pairing, a room with a door for private/distracting conversations, and personal space for individualism. See Alistair Cockburn's "Convection Currents of Information" for the theory (in his book "Agile Software Development") or my own "Sit Together" for the how-to (in my book "Art of Agile Development" and online at http://jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/sit_together.html ).

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• jdlshore · Nov 3, 2022 · Mentions

  …nowadays, but the truly innovative thinking that was happening in the late 90s and early 2000s. Stuff like the Poppendiecks’ Lean Software Development (based on their experience at 3M) and Cockburn’s Agile Software Development (based on research he originally conducted at IBM). And of course Beck’s Extreme Programming, based in part on his work with Ward Cunningham at Tektronix. These processes and thinking started with the…

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