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Ship It! is part manual of best practices, part software methodologies book and part a distillation of ideas and experiences of good and bad projects that the authors have been involved in. It migh...
-Tech Book Report
They have gathered together the ‘best bits’ of various styles and methodologies they have been directly involved with, and combined them into a practical approach with the focus on delivering a pro...
-Mitch Wheat
It's rare to have this much fun reading a book about software. The ideas are smart, relevant, and fundamental. I can be a better programmer today because of the things I read today.
-Joe Fair

Brilliant! Should You Fire Your Heroes? (Sep 25)
What should you do when people constantly have to save projects? Understand why the project needs saving! And fix it.

Don't misunderstand... if the project was 'like that when I got here', it's not your fault. But if you owned it, ran it, then had to save it... maybe you should re-examine how you work.

From Paul Duval (a fellow No Fluff Just Stuff speaker)
Fire your best people…reward the “lazy” ones

Are you constantly bailing water? Step back and find out which pipes are leaking.

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