Book reviews: 2-year anniversary

Our monthly column have just celebrated its 2-year anniversary. Altogether, we reviewed 24 books in 2008 and 2009. They are all listed below. We will continue writing reviews in 2010, but we will do that at a less frequent schedule: one book every two months. Happy reading!

2009

1. Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development
2. Ingrid Bens, Facilitating with Ease! Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers.
3. John Shook, Managing to Learn. Using the A3 management process to solve problems, gain agreement, mentor, and lead.
4. Jean Tabaka, Collaboration Explained. Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders.
5. Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Agile Retrospectives. Making Good Teams Great.
6. Durward K. Sobek II and Art Smalley, Understanding A3 Thinking. A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management Process.
7. Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
8. Martin Fowler, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
9. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
10. Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen, Essential Windows Communication Foundation. For .NET Framework 3.5.
11. Mike Rother, John Shook, Learning to See: Value-Stream Mapping to Create Value and Eliminate MUDA.
12. Neil Davidson, Don't Just Roll the Dice: A usefully short guide to software pricing.

2008

1. Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects.
2. Eric Evans, Domain Driven Design.
3. Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#.
4. Norman L. Kerth, Project Retrospectives. A handbook for team reviews.
5. Michael N. Kennedy, Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota's system is four times more productive and how you can implement it.
6. Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A guide to giving and getting advice successfully.
7. Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning.
8. Jeffrey Liker, David Meier, Toyota Talent: Developing Your People The Toyota Way.
9. Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
10. Michael Kennedy, Kent Harmon, Ed Minnock, Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's set-based learning for developing products and nobody can catch you.
11. Cliff Atkinson, Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire.
12. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement.