Category: books

Vacation Reading

July 30, 2008 by peterstev

Twas the night before my vacation
and all through the house
not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse....

Oops, wrong season. But given that the scrumdevelopment list is preoccupied with profound issues like "Why are we still allowing the term 'Agile Project Manager' (75 Postings) and 'Appropriate Postings' (62 Postings and counting), it is clear that the time has come to stop and recharge our collective batteries. For me that means reading, doing Sodokus, and spending time on the beach with my family. So here is look inside my backpack, as I head off to Rügen...

Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever

June 11, 2008 by JurgenAppelo

I recently created a Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I created that list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards. The nice thing about such a big list is that it enables you to extract all kinds of mini-lists out of it.

Like, for example, the Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever...

1: Robert C. Martin
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices

2: Martin Fowler
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code