Tag Archives: Software Engineering

Book Review: User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Gopinath

Author: Mike Cohn Published: 2004 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional The entire business of software development (for that matter any product development) starts with a user need (whether inherent or created by innovative marketing !) which gets expressed in form of documented … Continue reading →

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Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Gopinath

Author: Mike Cohn Published: 2010 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley India Pvt. Ltd Scrum is a deceptively simple agile framework for developing software products in a complex and dynamically changing environment. Theoretically understanding the framework is easy but successfully implementing and reaping … Continue reading →

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A Discipline for Software Engineering

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Gopinath

Author: Watts S. Humphrey Published: 1995 Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc. Buy from Flipkart The author Watts Humphrey needs no introduction to the software engineering community. He was a real “process innovator” whose pioneering work led to the development of the … Continue reading →

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Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Gopinath

Authors: Greg Smith, Ahmed Sidky Published: 2009 Publisher: Manning Publications Co. The authors of Manifesto for Agile Software Development unambiguously acknowledge the value of processes and tools, comprehensive documentation, contract negotiation and following a plan, even though they place more … Continue reading →

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Software Engineering Best Practices

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Gopinath

Author:    Caper Jones Published: 2009 Publisher: Tata McGraw Hill If software engineering has to be recognized as a true profession like other conventional engineering fields it has to inculcate the discipline of better measurements, better benchmarks, better quality control, and better … Continue reading →

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The Art of Lean Software Development

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Gopinath

Authors: Curt Hibbs,Steve Jewett & Mike Sullivan Published: 2009 Publisher: O’Reilley Media Inc. This book is a brief introduction to the Lean methodology as applied to the software development process. It also gives a roadmap for getting started on Lean. … Continue reading →

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