Book Review: User stories Applied

Do you want to understand User stories ? You can’t go wrong with User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn .

As of this writing, out of the 45 people who reviewed this book on Amazon, 35 people have given it 5 stars and 9 have given it 4 stars. And I would [...]

Book review: Scrum and XP from the Trenches

Ta da da dum !!!

Just finished reading my first book on Scrum. Boy do I feel better now!!!

We started using Scrum @ work few months ago. Before then I was familiar with Agile Practices but had never used Scrum before . So I did what everyone else did- went along with the flow , read [...]

Book Review : Java Transactions Design Strategies

About the author

I came across this book by Mark Richards- Java Transaction Design Strategies. For those who are not from Boston area- mark is a much familiar face in the NEJUG meetings- ever second Thursday. He served as the President for quite some time.

The book:

The book is about Transactions- in java applications- using EJB or Spring

Mark [...]