2014
The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software Book Review
The content of this book will help you audit, adjust, and manage your software process.
The Agile PMO: Leading the Effective, Value driven, Project Management Office Book Review
This book does not take long to read so the investment on your side is a few bucks and minimal time, but it has the potential of helping you avoid going down the wrong road, or recognizing that you are down the wrong road.
2013
The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want (2nd Ed) Book Review
I highly recommend this book to anyone in management - CIO, Director, CEO, Project Managers, Department Managers, etc. I also recommend this book to anyone who is working anywhere!!! To have an understanding of the way things could be are essential to your survival.
Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools, & Tips Book Review
Books like this can give insight into what you are up against before you have to learn the lesson the hard way, by going through it yourself.
The Essence of Software Engineering: Applying the SEMAT Kernel Book Review
The SEMAT Kernel provides a set of tools that enable those, that would normally not have enough experience to recognize when the project is going off-track, to be able to.
2012
Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams Book Review
This book will become a classic to turn to over time. Every manager interacting with programmers should read this book. That includes CIOs, Software Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Lead Developers.
An Enterprise and Software Architect's Tools of the Trade
It is not easy keeping up the latest technologies, processes, architectural techniques, and enterprise architecture framework improvements. Now more than ever an architect needs a lot of assets to keep up.
Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise Book Review
All in all I found the book to be an excellent resource for the agilist looking to move beyond small develop teams. It is an absolute must read for enterprise architects and other senior management working in the IT shop.
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum Book Review
This book down to earth does not just regurgitate Scrum practices, it provides tons of advice and examples from past experience. The book is for all levels of individuals and teams involved with or thinking about getting involved with Scrum.
Pro .NET Best Practices Book Review
I highly recommend this book to any role involved with developing .NET software.
2011
Software Architecture: A Comprehensive Framework and Guide for Practitioners Book Review
This book is truly a holistic view of software architecture.
Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise Book Review
I feel this is the first complete book on what an enterprise level agile process should look like.
12 Essential Skills for Software Architects Book Review
Although the book is written in the context of Software Architecture, anyone could benefit from the advice in the book.
Software Development Processes Out of Balance
I find a lot of software development environments out of balance. It only takes one area of the environment to be out of its element to throw off the entire software development environment.
Software Product Lines: Research Issues in Engineering and Management Book Review
Anyone considering venturing into Software Product Line Engineering should read this book. It contains essential information needed to succeed.
MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT AND DATA GOVERNANCE, 2/E Book Review
This book covers everything MDM from architectural considerations to governance and market trends.
2010
Free Software Engineering Institute Webinar Serves as Software Architecture Primer
The Software Engineering Institute is doing a free webinar on Software Architecture. It is on Thursday, July 8, at 1 p.m. EDT.
SOA with .NET and Windows Azure Book Review
This book is a must have for anyone that wants to know what Microsoft technologies have to offer to accomplish Service Oriented Architecture.
Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 Book Review
This is a pretty sweet book. There are a ton of features in Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010. This book does a great job of covering all of them that are related to Application Lifecycle Management.
2009
Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2nd Edition Book Review
If you are a .NET Architect, Developer, or Project Manger of a .NET team, you should have this book at your side.
Introduction to the SEI Framework for Software Product Line Practice Webinar
You can now register for the second of three webinars in a three-part series on Software Product Line Management.
The Process of Software Architecting Book Review
If you are involved in software development in anyway, you should read this book. It is the story of how it is supposed to be.
Software and Systems Requirements Engineering In Practice
This little book is packed with sound advice.
Requirements Engineering: From System Goals to UML Models to Software Specifications Book Review
This is not for the happy go lucky requirements gatherer. It is a detailed breakdown of everything requirements engineering for software intensive systems. It will make you think.
2008
New Learning Resources for the Software and System Architect
There are a lot of new learning resources available for the Software and System Architect. I have gathered some of the best together.
