Posts tagged booknotes
Measure Anything
- 01 January 2021
- Management
If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it; If you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it; If you don’t measure it, you probably don’t care; If you can’t influence it, then don’t measure it. - Randy A. Steinberg
About Consulting
- 10 July 2020
- Management
This blog contains notes from several books relevant to consulting.
User Story Applied
- 21 April 2019
- ComputerScience
This blog is the book notes for user story applied.
Iot for Smart Cities
- 10 February 2019
- ComputerScience
Smart cities: Everyone’s connected If everyone, every home, and every business is connected via the IoT, why not take the next step and connect your entire neighborhood, or even the whole city? Connected devices can help reduce congestion on local roadways, alert the fire department in case of emergencies, and even signal the need for road maintenance or additional police patrols. The smart city might mean a smaller government – or a more intrusive one. It all depends.
Agile Selling
- 27 January 2019
- Business
There is new challenge to sell since buyers have changed. When they have an issue, they go online to research their problem. Buyers self-educate, leaving the seller totally out of the loop. Without deep buyer understanding, it’s increasingly difficult to get business. You’re dealing with educated people who want conversations and collaboration, not pitches of any sort.
The Personal MBA
- 22 January 2018
- Management
This blog contains the booknotes of the book “The Personal MBA”.
The Effective Executive
- 29 December 2017
- Management
This is the notes from book <The Effective Executive> by Peter Drucker. According to Drucker, the task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths, making our weakness irrelevant
DevOps and Continuous Delivery
- 01 September 2017
- ComputerScience
DevOps and continuous delivery are two hot topics these days, which play more and more important role in software development especially for the SaaS (Software as a Service) solution.
The Art of Simplicity
- 31 August 2017
- Life
The original version was written in French named <L’art de la simplicite> by Dominique Loreau. This book show the tips regarding to have a simplified but high quality life.
Xunit Test Patterns
- 27 August 2017
- ComputerScience
Xunit Test Pattern is a fantastic book which shares the experience and good practice to write tests.
Specification by Example
- 25 August 2017
- ComputerScience
Specification by Example is a set of process patterns that helps teams build the right software product. With Specification by Example, teams write just enough documentation to facilitate change effectively in short iterations (Scrum or XP) or in flow-based development (Kanban).
Work in Big Company
- 17 May 2017
- Management
‘Hacker and Painter’ is a fantastic book for people work in IT industry, which enlightens me quite a lot. One point of view in this book is about the ‘dark side’ to work in big company.
The Mythical Deadline of Peopleware Man-month
- 14 May 2017
- Management
This blog post is the book note of three famous books in project/people management in IT industry: The Mythical Man-month, The Deadline, Peopleware. They are enlightenment books to me on the management topics when I read these books decade ago. There are a lot of shinning points in these books, and I try to list them with my own thoughts. The book notes will be in Chinese, since I read the Chinese version that time.
Book notes: Bian Zhi Lin Anthology
- 02 May 2017
- Literature
Bian Zhi Lin is modern poet, and is also alumnus of my high school (PuDong High School, Graduated in 1929). His poems are graceful, the most famous one is ‘The Fragment’ (DuanZhang).
Book Notes: Cai Gen Tan
- 14 April 2017
- Literature
‘Cai Gen Tan’ is an old Chinese book written in Ming dynasty. This book contains the wisdom from Confucianism, Taoists and Buddhism. It is a compact book but providing a lot of life advices.
