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Changing Software Development explains why software development is an exercise in change management and organizational intelligence. An underlying belief is that change is learning and learning creates knowledge. By blending the theory of knowledge management, developers and managers will gain the tools to enhance learning and change to accommodate new innovative approaches such as agile and lean computing.
Changing Software Development is peppered with practical advice and case studies to explain how and why knowledge, learning and change are important in the development process. Today, managers are pre–occupied with knowledge management, organization learning and change management; while software developers are often ignorant of the bigger issues embedded in their work. This innovative book bridges this divide by linking the software world of technology and processes to the business world of knowledge, learning and change.
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"Where a situation involves change, the solution involves learning. If you don′t believe that this applies to software development, this book will set you straight. If you do believe it, this book will help you go about it. Either way, you′ll learn something."
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Format:Paperback
I've read quite a few books on agile and lean and stumbled across this during a search for another book. The title sounded promising but the overview was a bit sparse. I read through the table of contents and the sample pages and it looked like an interesting read.
I was a bit disappointed by the book. If you know nothing of the principles of Change Management then this book will be a revelation. I've read a few, so the book was a bit of a rehash of things I'd read previously. I'd expected that from the TOC, but I was disappointed that the book seemed to have a chapter on agile software development tacked on at the beginning and not developed as a theme throughout the book. The narrative and relation to the subject just didn't work for me.
If you want an intro to Change, buy this book. If you want to know how to change software development by becoming agile, look elsewhere.
I was a bit disappointed by the book. If you know nothing of the principles of Change Management then this book will be a revelation. I've read a few, so the book was a bit of a rehash of things I'd read previously. I'd expected that from the TOC, but I was disappointed that the book seemed to have a chapter on agile software development tacked on at the beginning and not developed as a theme throughout the book. The narrative and relation to the subject just didn't work for me.
If you want an intro to Change, buy this book. If you want to know how to change software development by becoming agile, look elsewhere.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of the useful idea I gained by reading this book was that in order to change, you must first learn a new way of doing things.
This thoughtful book explains how to help a software team to change, and challenges the idea that developing software is an engineering discipline. Instead Kelly proposes it is an exercise in learning and knowledge creation.
This book explains how to promote knowledge and learning within your company, with the end goal being to create a learning organisation. It also talks about change and how to make it happen.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to improve a software team, department or company.
This thoughtful book explains how to help a software team to change, and challenges the idea that developing software is an engineering discipline. Instead Kelly proposes it is an exercise in learning and knowledge creation.
This book explains how to promote knowledge and learning within your company, with the end goal being to create a learning organisation. It also talks about change and how to make it happen.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to improve a software team, department or company.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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If you want to persist in trying to stick to a deterministic plan in a changing world, don't read this book.
A thought provoking book, that will make managers and developers question and think about how they can continuously improve their organisations to produce evolving useful software through learning and change.
Looking at a software product only through the single lens of either technological, process or domain knowledge perspectives is not the way to create useful software. Useful software will change the business domain as everyone involved with the software learns, creating a feedback loop of change and further learning
This book will give you ideas on how you can make learning and change a friend.
A thought provoking book, that will make managers and developers question and think about how they can continuously improve their organisations to produce evolving useful software through learning and change.
Looking at a software product only through the single lens of either technological, process or domain knowledge perspectives is not the way to create useful software. Useful software will change the business domain as everyone involved with the software learns, creating a feedback loop of change and further learning
This book will give you ideas on how you can make learning and change a friend.
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