Agile

• Agile Architecture

Communication

• Customer Communication

Customers

• Customer Communication

Diversity

• The Power of Diverse Teams

Improvement

• Customer Communication
• Model Mania

Jazz

• Take the Agile Train

Leadership

• The Power of Diverse Teams
• The Primary Functions of Management

Lean and Agile

• A New Model for Lean Culture
• Take the Agile Train

Metrics

• EVM for Mere Mortals

Music

• The Power of Diverse Teams
• Take the Agile Train

PaganTuna

• The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

Project Management

• Customer Communication

Quality

• Software Defects

Software Development

• Software Defects

Teams

• The Power of Diverse Teams

appendices

• Benefits of the Scaled Agile Framework
• The Core Design Principles for Teams
• Fighting Organizational Friction
• Lessons We (Should) Have Learned from the Web
• Taming the E-mail Monster
• Ten Reasons to Ditch Your Word Documents
• Thinking Differently about Perfectionism
• The Watery Ketchup Stops Here

authors

• Abrahamson, Eric and Freeman, David H.
• American Psychological Association
• Argyris, Chris and Schön, Donald
• Austin, Rob and Devin, Lee
• Austin, Robert D.
• Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L. and O'Donnell, Shannon
• Avitzur, Ron
• Badaracco, Joseph L.
• Beck, Kent et al.
• Berkun, Scott
• Block, Peter
• Boehm, Barry and Turner, Richard
• Borenstein, Nathaniel
• Boynton, Andy and Fischer, Bill
• Brooks, Fred
• Brown, William J., McCormick III, Hays W. and Thomas, Scott W.
• Buckingham, Marcus and Coffman, Curt
• Cockburn, Alistair
• Constantine, Larry and Lockwood, Lucy
• Davis, Alan M.
• Daylight
• DeMarco, Tom
• DeMarco, Tom and Lister, Timothy
• DeMarco, Tom, Hruschka, Peter, Lister, Tim, McMenamin, Steve, Robertson, James and Robertson, Suzanne
• Dymond, Ken
• Einstein, Albert
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Elssamadisy, Amr
• Fackler, Martin
• Fried, Jason
• Gall, John
• Gamma, Erich; Helm, Richard; Johnson, Ralph and Glissades, John
• Gawande, Atul
• Glass, Robert L.
• Glazer, Hillel et al.
• Gualtieri, Mike
• Hammett, Dashiell
• Heckel, Paul
• Highsmith, Jim
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
• Humphrey, Watts
• Hurst, Mark
• Innes, Michael
• Jenson, Scott
• Jobs, Steve
• Johnson, Barry
• Kahneman, Daniel
• Kennedy, Michael N.
• Kim, Gene, Behr, Kevin and Spafford, George
• Knuth, Donald
• Kovitz, Benjamin L.
• Krug, Steve
• Leffingwell, Dean
• Lennon, John
• Lewis, Bob
• Lewis, C. S.
• Liker, Jeffrey
• Lohr, Steve
• Lopp, Michael
• Marsalis, Wynton and Ward, Geoffrey
• Martin, Roger L.
• Miller, Henry
• Morgan, James M. and Liker, Jeffrey K.
• O'Reilly, Tim
• Page-Jones, Meilir
• Parker, Ian
• Phillips, Katherine
• Pink, Daniel H.
• Poppendieck, Mary and Poppendieck, Tom
• Reeves, Jack W.
• Reinertsen, Donald G
• Ries, Eric
• Robertson, Suzanne and Robertson, James
• Santayana, George
• Schembechler, Bo
• Senge, Peter
• Smith, M. K.
• Spolsky, Joel
• The Standish Group
• Watson, Thomas J. , Jr.
• Weber, Craig
• Weinberg, Gerald
• Wilson, David Sloan
• Yourdon, Edward

critical thinking

• Thinking's a Dizzy Business

ideas

• The Inconvenient Nature of Software Development
• Software Development is a Balancing Act
• Automate Repetitive Tasks
• Use Things Already Known to Work
• Simplify and Generalize
• Decomposition
• Cohesion
• Loose Coupling
• Communicate Clearly
• Consider Alternatives
• Have Wonderful Arguments
• Show Rather than Tell
• Shorten Feedback Loops
• Understand the Arc of Your Project
• What's Not Done is as Important as What's Done
• Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Build Great Teams
• Govern Wisely
• Take a Long-Term Economic Perspective
• Don't Wait to Integrate

lean

• Fighting Organizational Friction

quotes

• Artful making differs from industrial making
• Nothing Useful is Real
• The Nirvana Antipattern
• Elaboration of Multiple Approaches
• Learn as many of the requirements as possible
• The land of the template zombies
• The Paper Mill
• People who often change their minds
• Start with a working simple system
• Looks like luck to saps
• The magic is not in the process
• Design by focus groups
• Where the puck is going to be
• We have wonderful arguments
• Technology married with the liberal arts
• Subjective opinions of trained professionals
• The aesthetics of programming
• The Enormous Extension of our Being
• Software is a plastic object
• You create a world of your own
• Engineers and designers working together
• Fail Fast
• Design leadership
• Diversity helps your business
• Software development is a knowledge-creating process
• Minimum Viable Product
• Pushing hard design decisions to the end
• Simplistic schemes to eliminate programmers

works

• A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder
• Multitasking: Switching costs
• Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness
• Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
• Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
• Adventures of an IT Leader
• The Graphing Calculator Story
• Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing
• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• Principles of Agile Software Development
• The Myths of Innovation
• The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work
• Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
• Programming As If People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions
• Virtuoso Teams: The extraordinary stories of extraordinary teams
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
• Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything
• AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
• Communicating, cooperating teams
• Agile Software Development
• What engineering has in common with manufacturing and why it matters
• Using Both Incremental and Iterative Development
• Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design
• 201 Principles of Software Development
• Just Enough Requirements Management: Where Software Development Meets Marketing
• What is Design Thinking?
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition)
• Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
• Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
• A Guide to the CMM: Understanding the Capability Maturity Model for Software
• On the Method of Theoretical Physics
• Six Crises
• Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success
• The 'Toyota Way' Is Translated for a New Generation of Foreign Managers
• Some advice from Jeff Bezos: Signal vs. Noise
• Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
• CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both!
• Excuses, excuses: The Business Doesn't Know What It Wants
• The Dain Curse
• The Elements of Friendly Software Design
• Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems
• Agile Software Development Ecosystems
• Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
• The Measure of a Management System
• Holmes-Pollock Letters
• Managing the Software Process
• A Discipline for Software Engineering
• Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy
• Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload
• Seven Suspects
• The Simplicity Shift: Innovative Design Tactics in a Corporate World
• Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
• Business Week Interview with Steve Jobs
• Apple's One-Dollar-a-Year Man
• Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
• Brent Schlender's Conversations with Steve Jobs
• Macworld Keynote
• Conversation with Walt Mossberg
• Steve Jobs's Ultimate Lesson for Companies
• Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• Practical Software Requirements: A Manual of Content and Style
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
• Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
• The Beatles Anthology
• Bob Lewis's IS Survival Guide
• An Experiment in Criticism
• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
• Go To
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
• Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
• Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking
• Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
• The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process and Technology
• WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
• The Seven Stages of Expertise in Software Engineering
• The Shape of Things to Come
• Diversity Helps Your Business -- But Not The Way You Think
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
• What is Software Design?
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• Mastering the Requirements Process
• The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense
• The Team
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
• Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning
• Joel on Software
• Smart and Gets Things Done
• Chaos Manifesto 2013
• Conversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When the Pressure Is On
• The Psychology of Computer Programming
• This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
• Techniques of Program Structure and Design
• Decline and Fall of the American Programmer