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Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment

This book is the only book of its kind. It covers everything you need to know to make intelligent financial…

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Refactoring to Patterns

Based on its title alone I had high expectations for this book. It didn’t disappoint. The book takes…

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Pragmatic Project Automation

This book will save you from hours of work and from many headaches. Mike Clark’s Pragmatic Project…

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JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing

My initial uses of JUnit are probably not unique. I found it a wonderful tool and a great way to replace the…

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What’s Holding You Back?

I was honored to be the guest editor of a special issue of Better Software magazine that was focused on agile software development. This is my introduction to the issue (July/August 2004) in which I…

Writing User Stories - Questioning Your Users

Let's face it, most people don't know what they want. Most of us just

Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

This is a wonderful and highly practical book. Within hours of putting it down I was already putting some of…

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Agile Project Management with Scrum

Agile Project Management with Scrum is a wonderful book. The author, Ken Schwaber (one of the originators of…

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Toward a Catalog of Scrum Smells

This article was written for the Scrum Alliance soapbox. It presents an initial collection of Scrum smells or indicators that things may be amiss on a Scrum project.