Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (The Agile Software Development Series)
Author: Mary Poppendieck
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck
Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber
- Adapting agile practices to your development organization
- Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle
- Practical techniques for every development manager, project manager, and technical leader
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Lean software development: applying agile principles to your organization
In Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck identify seven fundamental "lean" principles, adapt them for the world of software development, and show how they can serve as the foundation for agile development approaches that work. Along the way, they introduce 22 "thinking tools" that can help you customize the right agile practices for any environment.
Better, cheaper, faster software development. You can have all three—if you adopt the same lean principles that have already revolutionized manufacturing, logistics and product development.
- Iterating towards excellence: software development as an exercise in discovery
- Managing uncertainty: "decide as late as possible" by building change into the system.
- Compressing the value stream: rapid development, feedback, and improvement
- Empowering teams and individuals without compromising coordination
- Software with integrity: promoting coherence, usability, fitness, maintainability, and adaptability
- How to "seethe whole"—even when your developers are scattered across multiple locations and contractors
Simply put, Lean Software Development helps you refocus development on value, flow, and people—so you can achieve breakthrough quality, savings, speed, and business alignment.
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Robot Building for Beginners (Technology in Action Series)
Author: David Cook
Loads of pictures and very frank discussion make this book a pleasure to read, and a real learning tool.
— Craig Maloney, Slashdot Contributor
The author gives lots of practical advice, some of which would be useful even to experienced tinkerers. It is very thorough.
— Edward Chin, The Canadian Linux Users' Exchange
Learning robotics by yourself isn't easy, but it helps when the encouragement comes from an expert who's spent years in the field. Not only does Author David Cook assist you in understanding the component parts of robot development, but he also presents valuable techniques that prepare you to achieve new discoveries on your own.
Cook begins with the anatomy of a homemade robot and gives you the best advice on how to proceed successfully. General sources for tools and parts are provided in a consolidated list, and specific parts are recommended throughout the book. Also, basic safety precautions and essential measuring and numbering systems are promoted throughout.
Specific tools and parts covered include digital multimeters, motors, wheels, resistors, LEDs, photoresistors, transistors, chips, gears, nut drivers, batteries, and more. Robot Building for Beginners is an inspiring book that provides an essential base of practical knowledge for anyone getting started in amateur robotics.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | Welcome Robot Inventor! | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Where to Obtain Tools and Parts | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | Safety | 23 |
| Ch. 4 | Digital Multimeter | 37 |
| Ch. 5 | Numbers and Units | 63 |
| Ch. 6 | Robot Line-Following | 75 |
| Ch. 7 | Nine-Volt Batteries | 95 |
| Ch. 8 | Clips and Test Leads | 111 |
| Ch. 9 | Resistors | 123 |
| Ch. 10 | LEDs | 135 |
| Ch. 11 | Power On! Building and Testing a Power Indicator Circuit | 155 |
| Ch. 12 | Solderless Prototyping | 175 |
| Ch. 13 | Solderless Breadboard Setup | 199 |
| Ch. 14 | Variable Resistors | 215 |
| Ch. 15 | Comparators | 239 |
| Ch. 16 | Transistor Switches | 259 |
| Ch. 17 | DC Motors | 279 |
| Ch. 18 | Adding Gearhead Motors | 321 |
| Ch. 19 | Wheels | 333 |
| Ch. 20 | Coupler | 353 |
| Ch. 21 | Soldering Equipment | 377 |
| Ch. 22 | Soldering and Connecting | 389 |
| Ch. 23 | The Motherboard | 421 |
| Ch. 24 | Body Building | 443 |
| Ch. 25 | Launching the Line-Follower | 479 |
| Ch. 26 | Encore | 503 |
| Ch. 27 | Appendix | 537 |
| Index | 547 |
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