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Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game | Book Series

Overview:  This award-winning book is written by Alistair Cockburn, and it is the second edition of the same book ‘Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game’. In this book, Alistair Cockburn jolts down about his powerful model of Software Development as a “cooperative game of invention and communication.” He introduces some new ideas in this book, which includes: how to harness competition in the teams without damaging their collaboration; encouraging teams to learn lessons from Lean Manufacturing, and balancing strategies for communication. The author also illustrates some points on how the cooperative game can be played in business, engineering projects, and not just confined to Software Development.

Author:

Alistair Cockburn

Published In:

2006

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The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for Agile teams | Book Series

Overview: If you are running daily Retrospectives, this book will help you in obtaining additional benefits out of your Retrospectives and fuelling Continuous Improvement in your teams. Within few days of implementing these techniques, you will start noticing Retrospectives valuable, and however, you may find even better ways to make your team highly productive.

This book condenses down the authors’ eight years of expertise in operating with the Retrospective practice, and the benefits in the context of real Agile groups. It offers you practical advice and effective ways to make your Retrospectives even simpler.

Author:

Patrick Kua

Published In:

2013