Friday, June 9, 2006

Good Software Engineering Reading Material

I was going to send this as an email, but decided I wanted it to be more persentent...

Brad appleton on simplicity (again): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/14045

Jim Grenning on embedded TDD:
http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/listArticles?key=topic&topic=Embedded%20Software


Kent Beck on Appreciative Inquiry (as applicable in stand-ups, but I like the idea in general):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/120359

Ron Jefferies being himself (entertaining and educational at the same time):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/14033
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/14036
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/120397
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/120398

A TDD example for non programmers (I didn't take the time to read it, but some people I respect liked it):
http://www.clarkeching.com/2006/04/test_driven_dev.html

And I leave you with this quote:
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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