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Compendium Developments Reading List

Here is a subset of the Compendium Developments Reading List. The books listed here are those which have been recommended by others and are quietly awaiting being read.

Unreviewed But Recommended

These books have not been reviewed yet by Compendium Developments but they have been read and come recommended. Watch out for reviews of these books on this site in the future.

Compendium Developments Reading List

Title

Author

Exploring Requirements : Quality Before Design

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Donald C. Gause
Gerald M. Weinberg

Extreme Programming in Practice

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

James Newkirk
Robert C. Martin

Handbook of Walkthroughs, Inspections, & Technical Reviews

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Daniel P. Freedman
Gerald M. Weinberg

More Process Patterns : Delivering Large-Scale Systems Using Object Technology

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Scott Ambler

Process Patterns

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Elfriede Dustin
Scott Ambler

Quality Software Management : Anticipating Change (Vol 4)

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gerald M. Weinberg

Quality Software Management : Congruent Action Vol 3

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gerald M. Weinberg

Quality Software Management : First-Order Measurement Vol. 2

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gerald M. Weinberg

Quality Software Management : Systems Thinking Vol. 1

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gerald M. Weinberg

Writing Effective Use Cases

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Alistair Cockburn

Unreviewed But Recommended

Title

Author

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gerald M. Weinberg

Constantine on Peopleware

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Larry L. Constantine

Design Patterns

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Erich Gamma
John Vlissides
Ralph Johnson
Richard Helm

Extreme Programming Explained

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Kent Beck

Extreme Programming Installed

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Ann Anderson
Chet Hendrickson
Ron Jeffries

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Christopher Alexander

Planning Extreme Programming

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Kent Beck
Martin Fowler

Problem Frames

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Michael Jackson

Rethinking systems analysis and design

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gerald M. Weinberg

Software Engineering: a Practitioner's Approach

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Roger Pressman

Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Norman E. Fenton
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger

Software Requirements and Specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Michael Jackson

Testing Computer Software

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Cem Kaner
Hung Quoc Nguyen
Jack Falk

The Art of Software Testing

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Glenford J. Myers

The Mythical Man-month

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Frederick P. Brooks

The Secrets of Consulting

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gerald M. Weinberg

UML in a Nutshell

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Sinan Si Alhir

Web Security & Commerce

[Amazon.co.uk]   [Amazon.com]

Gene Spafford
Simon Garfinkel