brainstorms

Thursday April 20, 2006

now reading: coplien and harrison

coplien and harrison's organizational patterns of agile software development is one of the most interesting books i have read on the topic. what makes it special? heavy on pragmatic, multiple successful-project based development patterns, many of them familiar, carefully supported with other empirical research and case studies. concise discussions of each pattern with very little hand-waving. in a field that is littered with one-project generalizations and [sometimes collected] blogorrhea of assorted talking heads, this is a refreshing piece of work. [well, one can do without the early bell-labs style typesetting and all the quaint photography from the archives of the library of congress - where is duane bibby when a good book needs his illustrations?]

[some more detailed notes on various patterns to follow]

ROTFL: nurture the role of the wise fool who can raise uncomfortable truths with impunity.