Recommended Reading

Software Developer / Architect

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• Agile Architecture and Design

  • Books

    • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
    • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
    • Emergent Design. The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development.
    • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
    • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
    • Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design (Second Edition)
    • Refactoring To Patterns
    • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
    • REST in Practice

  • Online

    • Programming By Intention
    • To Be Explicit
    • Commonality and Variability Analysis
    • Design Principles
    • Sample or guideline for OO design
    • OO Primer (Object Oriented Principles Explained)
    • Agile Design
    • Is Design Dead?
    • Hard Questions About Architects
    • Domain Driven Design Quickly
    • Catalog of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
    • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
    • Top-down vs Bottom-up in design
    • Simplicity and XP
    • Save your Cleverness
    • What Is Object-Oriented Design?
    • Surprise! Software Rots!
    • Refactoring with Martin Fowler
    • Software Anti-patterns
      • Object Orgy
      • Anemic Domain Model
      • God Object
    • Bed Smells - Refactoring Cue Card (See Feature Envy, Large Class, Transactional Script)
    • Refactorings
    • Emergent Design - The Nature of Software Development
    • SOA, cuts the Gordian Knot -- Not.
    • Evolutionary SOA
    • Does My Bus Look Big in This?
    • Agile Design and Modeling
    • Sample or guideline for OO design
    • Model View Presenter Pattern (MVP)
    • MVP and other OOP patterns reference implementation - Northwind Starter Kit
    • Object Oriented Concepts in C#
    • A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking
    • Domain Model Pattern
    • Organizing Domain Logic - Domain-Driven Design vs. Microsoft Three-Layered Services Application
    • How *not* to inject services in entities
    • Naked objects
    • Turn off that LightSwitch, and Let's Get Naked!
    • Pawson thesis on Naked Objects (pdf)
    • What is a Good Design - Design Principles and Code Ownership
    • Reexamining an Object-Oriented Design Heuristic
    • Why should you use business objects in .NET and not DataSets?
    • REST - Ian Robinson and Jim Webber on Web-based Integration
    • Representational state transfer (REST)
    • REST - Fielding Dissertation
    • Addressing Doubts about REST
    • Threading in C#
    • eBay Architecture - what eBay did to scale
    • Event Sourcing
    • NetObjectives Resources and Support
    • Object Mentor Resources

• Agile Process

  • Books

    • Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
    • Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
    • Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
    • Scrum and XP from the Trenches

  • Online

    • The New Methodology
    • Manifesto for Agile Software Development
    • The Day Agile Kicked Waterfall�s Butt!!!
    • eXtreme Programming Versus Scrum
    • Overcoming Impediments to Test-Driven Development
    • Experimental study about Test Driven Development
    • Is there a way to create a unit test that tests a single method only? (method level isolation)
    • Test Driven Development (see comments)
    • Guidelines for Test-Driven Development
    • patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance
    • Scrum and XP from the Trenches
    • Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
    • Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams
    • The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming
    • Are Management Basics Affected When Using Agile Methods?
    • Inclusive Modeling: User Centered Approaches for Agile Software Development
    • Use and Abuse Cases
    • Requirements Come Second
    • Scrum-ban
    • Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development
    • Software engineering is dead
    • Bureaucracy Isn't Discipline
    • Waterfall model
    • Waterfall 2006
    • Certified Waterfall Slave (CWS) program
    • product vs. functional team structure - Optimal organizational structure for largeish software org
    • Cheaper Talent Hypothesis
    • Prefer Design Skills
    • New Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers
    • Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers
    • A Paradigm Shift in Teaching Object Oriented Technology
    • Test-Driven Teaching
    • Inside the p&p Team Room
    • Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
    • Version Control Tools
    • NetObjectives Resources and Support
    • Object Mentor Resources