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2007/07/26
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Sustainable Software Development - book review
Author: hiranabe (12:00 pm)
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Kevin Tate's book Sustainable Software Development - An Agile Perspective http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Software-Development-Agile-Perspective/dp/0321286081/ I really like the title! I've been thinking that software development and software itself should be sustainable and constructed not like a "building" but like Sagrada Família. Kent Beck also said that software development is more like "gardening". Kevin introduces four principles in a juggling metaphore. Quote: Striving for sustainable software development is like juggling the four balls of sustainable development [principles] at the same time as the much larger balls that represent features and bugfixing. The four principles are; * Working Product * Design Emphasis * Defect Prevention * Continual Refinement All of them have been stated in the context of Agile, but the viewpoint of "sustainability" is worth reading.  Here's a mind map of my book review. Click to magnify or here's one in PDF format. http://www.change-vision.com/files/kenji.hiranabe/SustainableSoftwareDevelopment-Review-Kenji.pdf Jim Highsmith gave a good foreword. |
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