October 4, 2010 Book Reviews
October 4, 2010 Book Reviews
I read this book, and you know what? I’m disappointed by it. I has lot of ideas that do NOT glue with current world Agile ideas. Book states that everything should be designed and specified up to smallest details and after that developers start code. Also as one of improvements of the process was to omit unit testing o_O. Regardless of this I liked ideas about how managers should deal with people, bosses, deadlines, team sizes.About team sizes: If team is huge it will not lead to good design or effective utilization of resources – it will lead to enormous amount of meetings, discussions, etc, and in the end you could even get worse results!
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Hm, it is strange that I haven't found such disappointing things that you pointed out. Will try to refresh it soon. In general this is one of the best books I've read about Project Management.
Did you read "The goal" or "BOSS" ?
So "The goal" is book which I liked the most of all of the books on management that I had chance to read. But, yeah, I did not read many of them. Maybe will put comparison table when have many of the in list.
I like this book, i agree it is a bit 'simple' but it still have value and talks to a ton of things that happens in the real world.
You are right that it talks about things that happens in the real world, of course that is expressed in 'simple' and as per me somewhat naive way… Maybe I should reevaluate it in my mind. :)
How about book proposing to omit Unit Testing? Yeah… I understand that this book is kind of old book and talk about waterfall, I guess… but isn't it something… Am I ok to spend my time on this?