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Head First Software Development (Head First Series)
by
Dan Pilone,
Russ Miles
Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let Head First Software Development guide you through the best practices of software development. Before you know it, those fai...more
Paperback, 498 pages
Published
December 27th 2007
by O'Reilly Media
(first published January 11th 2007)
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Stop hacking together bad code, stop insane cost overruns and missed schedules. This great book in the terrific "Head First" series tells you how, in easy to understand ways, to use Agile Methodologies so you can stop hacking and 'programming' and start doing real product development. Produce quality software that meets the customer's requirements and do it on time and on budget. What a concept!
I have used these methodologies for several years at two Fortune 100 companies and these have been the...more
I have used these methodologies for several years at two Fortune 100 companies and these have been the...more
The software development approach described in this book is primarily based on Agile development principles and the Scrum framework (though not explicitly mentioned as such). It also introduces the concepts underlying technical practices like Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) in a very elegant manner using a single case study , code snippets, illustrations and exercises.
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Good overall review of development tools and practices to manage a software project. It looks a little juvenile with the format, but it makes it easy to read quickly and take in a lot of information. (It is O'Reilly after all).
Use to convert the brute-force cyberpunk to iterative, XP (Extreme Programming) dogma. I enjoyed the emphasis on assessment; however, test-driven development is like letting passengers pilot an aircraft.
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This book gives a very easy to understand and a fun insight into the Agile Methodology - and at the same time refraining from actually calling Agile.
I found the first couple of chapters where they discussed about User stories, tasks and burn down graphs useful. After that, I was already familiar with most of the concepts (TDD, Bug reports, etc) and so didn't find those chapters that appealing.
Overall, an excellent book if you are going to be new to the s/w development process.
I found the first couple of chapters where they discussed about User stories, tasks and burn down graphs useful. After that, I was already familiar with most of the concepts (TDD, Bug reports, etc) and so didn't find those chapters that appealing.
Overall, an excellent book if you are going to be new to the s/w development process.
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