Following on from Best Book I’ve Read In A Long Time…
I’m working my way (dipping into each as the mood takes me, so in no particular order) through these guys:
Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Agile Estimating and Planning
The thing that all these have in common is that they give you the feeling that the authors have “been there, man.”
They also have a feeling of optimism: “the solution is in here, just look harder.”
I like this feeling!
I have to disable my cynicism chip, but that’s probably all to the good ;-)
On the bad side, they make me feel like I have wasted a career :-(
It’s not that I want to be a Project Manager, heavens no!
it’s just that I want to work with a project management team that has read and understood the messages here. <sigh emphasis=’heavy’ />
Like that’s going to happen anytime soon!
Here in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia; not the one in California), Prince2 is going great guns in Government circles (which is practially all that there is around here…). As I said before: there seems to be a ’spirit of “hey it’s not working, let’s throw more X at it”‘
