Comments on: Book review: Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn

By: Scrollin’ On Dubs » Agile perspective on US education, China and a 13-step demolition proposal

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:40:59 +0000

[...] problem solving. One such concept is an idea put forth in Alistair Cockburn’s book Agile Software Development regarding the cumulative effect of aligning many small force vectors precisely in one direction. [...]

By: MAG Software Development

MAG Software Development — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:39:51 +0000

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By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:39:55 +0000

hi – liked your review (it was on reddit). i also wrote a review of this book recently. it’s interesting to compare the two – while we don’t disagree, we do focus on very different things (which is good, i think). not sure if embedded html works here so it’s the “website” link (the url is http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/compgeneral.html#agile)

cheers, andrew

By: Grid7 - Build something. BIGGER. - FAW #25: Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software

Grid7 - Build something. BIGGER. - FAW #25: Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:29:24 +0000

[...] Private offices for programmers – This really boggles me. There’s five of us that all work in one big room at JumpBox. We all don our headphones at varying times when we’re heads-down focused on something but we’ve seen a massive benefit in communication that comes from overhearing a chance conversation occurring between other people in the room. The idea of isolating programmers in separate rooms with closed doors flies in the face of Allistair Cockburn’s findings around effective software development with the main success determinant being the minimization of “erg seconds” spent on transmitting information amongst team members. I could not imagine if we were all isolated from one another throughout the day. If that type of development is truly effective, then why do they even have office space at Fog Creek in the first place? [...]