Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece
Ron Jeffries: The Nature of Software Development (2015, Pragmatic Bookshelf)
178 pages
Published March 1, 2015 by Pragmatic Bookshelf.
You need to get value from your software project. You need it "free, now, and perfect." We can't get you there, but we can help you get to "cheaper, sooner, and better." This book leads you from the desire for value down to the specific activities that help good Agile projects deliver better software sooner, and at a lower cost. Using simple sketches and a few words, the author invites you to follow his path of learning and understanding from a half-century of software development and from his engagement with Agile methods from their very beginning.
This is a great little book for understanding the whys and hows of software development. The focus is on delivering the highest value first, and doing so in very thin increments.
Nothing what you already know about agile or about break your releases in small pieces of features. It's good to remember that, but nothing more else.
