Tuesday, October 16, 2012

agile software development

by alistair cockburn, 2002, 005.1 COC

much more philosophical than other dev and planning books i've looked at recently, from a higher-level perspective. maybe relevant for a longer term because of this. i actually like a lot of the earlier chapters' discussion of things like how people think, communicate, and learn, and how habits and mental models affect performance, etc. i especially like the way he characterizes three stages of behavior in learning, based on shu-ha-ri (learn, detach, transcend) in aikido: following, detaching, and fluent. (see www.aikidofaq.com/essays/tin/shuhari.html) nice little snippets giving examples of successes and failures.

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