Software Developer / Architect Recommended Reading

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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