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There are puzzles, q&a sessions, and there are no dumb question sessions that really drive home the points being made. This means just about anyone can read this book and should understand the concepts and principles in it. Each concept is based o... Read More
Hfsd preaches iterative development without all the dogma of scrum or xp. This book explains the dynamics of agile development. Whether you're just beginning to take the plunge into agile development, or you've been trying to do it for a while, this i... Read More
Cons
This book talks about a specific way of doing software development, and skips the fundamentals. They reiterate what they say over and over over.
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Points to be taken into account are shown and also the tools with which we have to deal with first the requirements the client ... Read More
With the different way to present the information en with lot of illustrations its newer a boring read
I did have a hard time with the java specific environment but i guess it would be a much larger book if they covered other systems
While i put certain effort to learn from more traditional books with the head first approach i was able to learn software devel... Read More
Competitiveness
While i was able to deliver the software ontime with overtime i experienced success but not with out frustrations
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- This product had a total of 117 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 24 2023.
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I read this book basically covertocover in about 3 hours and there were aspects which made me think on the whole there was nothing new in this book and the topics it did cover it did not go into any real depth
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For me not a good use of my money
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Nothing complex or where there is something complex they decomplex it and in some ways dumb it down to a reasonably low commondenominator
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Unlike so many books on software development this one doesnt start with a terse and rather useless overview chapter
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Instead it clearly tells you who this book is for those who have a background in programming specifically java who want to learn techniques for building and delivering software
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However this is a book on how to approach the design of the software not how to perform the detailed coding so having somewhat rusty java skills should be acceptable
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The following is the table of contents for the book1
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However if youve been developing agilely for a while then what youll find here isnt much more than a refresher course or reminder of how you should be doing things
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