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Summary: Great Book !
Comment: The way this book is writen is just fantastic. Wonderful book to LEARN how to develop GOOD software.
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Summary: Another Home Run!
Comment: Head First Software Development is another home run from the Head First series. I have bougth the HTML/CSS, Design Patterns, Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, and now this book. These "Brain-Friendly Guides" are such wonderful learning tools packed with great information, and so much fun to read. Keep them coming!
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Summary: Basic and reday to use book
Comment: This book explains the dynamics of Agile development. it is a great introduction for team leaders. it dosent discuess the philoshophy that stands behind agile development but describes in a great way HOW TO start an agile project.
the special "head first" attitued to computer books is a pleasure as usuall.
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Summary: Modern, Lucid and Rational
Comment: Since becoming a Development Manager, this is the first book I've made required reading for the team. Good software development is NOT common sense. When confronted with something as complex as a software project, people tend to respond with panic (which the book calls the Big Bang) or massive attempts at control (the Waterfall method).
HFSD preaches Iterative Development without all the dogma of Scrum or XP. It leaves the controversial stuff to other books, focusing on what good developers pretty much agree on. The practices are easily adopted and flexible, although like all worthwhile things in the world, they take a lifetime to master.
There's a lot to like about this book. The other Head First guides are good, but the style really, really fits the material here ... maybe because development is really less about technology than it is about working with others.
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Summary: "The" Guide to Agile Development
Comment: 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 most productive and personally satisfying years of my 32 years in software engineering.
There are lots of very precise, dry and boring academic books on agile methodologies and they are fine for a university class room, but if you are a practitioner and need to come up to speed on agile and make it work in the real world, this is the book. If you are familiar at all with the "Head First" series you know what to expect. If you are new to the "Head First" concept, suspend disbelief, read, do the exercises, laugh at the cartoons and soon you will find these folks have found the right way to teach new things to geeks and nerds like us.
If you learn nothing more than Test Driven Development, the book will pay for itself in terms of your time.
If you develop software for a living, you need this book. Period.
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