Agile Patterns: The Technical Cluster
Free eBook download “Agile Patterns: The Technical Cluster” from InfoQ. As more and more people move towards adoption of Agile practices, they are looking for guidance and advice on how to adopt Agile successfully.
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Free Online Book: Designing Interfaces
Excerpts from the O’Reilly book “Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design”. Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design is an intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between.
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Free eBook: Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
Free eBook “Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns” in pdf format. Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns collects and distills successful techniques in planning a reengineering project, reverse-engineering, problem detection, migration strategies and software redesign. This book speaks with experience.
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Free eBook: Kanban and Scrum
Free ebook “Kanban and Scrum : Making the most of both” in pdf format. Scrum and Kanban are two flavours of Agile software development - two deceptively simple but surprisingly powerful approaches to software development. The purpose of this book is to clear up the fog, so you can figure out how Kanban and Scrum might be useful in your environment.
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Free eBook: Essential Skills for Agile Development
Free ebook “Essential Skills for Agile Development” in pdf format. Agile Development, in particular, eXtreme Programming (XP), has been gaining a lot of momentum because it can effectively address the problems plaguing software development such as mis-understanding customers’ requirements, missing deadlines, over-budget, conflicts between customers and developers and poor maintainability of legacy systems.
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Free eBook: Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Free eBook “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a team of approximately 40 people and how they continuously improved their process over a year’s time.
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Free eBook: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide
Free 251 page ebook “Acceptance Test Engineering Guide” in pdf format. The Acceptance Test Engineering Guide will provide guidance for technology stakeholders (developers, development leads, testers, test leads, architects, etc.) and business stakeholders (managers, customers, end users, etc) on the discipline of acceptance testing.
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Free eBook: 12 Things to Shorten Your Lead Time
Free pdf eBook “12 Things to Shorten Your Lead Time” by Stephan Schmidt from codemonkeyism.com. This eBook will give you insights into how to reduce the lead time of your software development process. In many companies the perception is as follows: why are we so slow? Marketing probably asks you why you have lead times of several months as an IT-department, from their ideas to seeing the feature live. Many companies have large lead times, often unnecessarily large.
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How to Survive the Multicore Software Revolution
Free pdf eBook “How to Survive the Multicore Software Revolution”. To help you survive and prosper during the multicore revolution, we have in this eBook tried to provide some background and context around the emergence of mainstream multicore processors, identify the key challenges facing software developers, provide an introduction to multithreading concepts, and overview several concurrency platforms available today.
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Free eBook: SOA for Dummies 2nd IBM Limited Edition
Free eBook “SOA for Dummies 2nd IBM Limited Edition” from IBM. This ebook introduces you to the basics of SOA in context with the real life experiences of seven companies. Seen through the varied business environments depicted in each of the case studies, we hope you will recognize that SOA is more than a bunch of new software products strung together to allow technology companies to have something else to sell.
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