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Past Book Review (May 26, 2007): "The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed, by Michael L. George, John Maxey, David Rowlands, and Mark Price, McGraw-Hill Education, 2004, reposted here: This text is simply

Past Book Review (December 22, 2007): "Agile Estimating and Planning"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Agile Estimating and Planning, by Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2005, reposted here: This Robert C. Martin Series text by Mike Cohn has been unfairly criticized by previous reviewers. The content in general is very well written, and the

New Book Review: "Version Control with Git (Second Edition)"

New book review for Version Control with Git (Second Edition), by Jon Loeliger and Matthew McCullough, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Solid discussion of Git for someone like me who has primarily been using CVS and SVN (Subversion) throughout their career, and has since started using Git. While I

New Book Review: "Building Microservices"

New book review for Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: As explained in the preface to this book, "microservices" are small, autonomous services that work together, each of which is focused on doing one thing well. While the topic of

Past Book Review (October 21, 2007): "Software by Numbers"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development , by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang, Prentice Hall, 2003, reposted here: This book caught my attention because I was searching for a decent book on ROI and software development, and Dr. Jane

Past Book Review (September 26, 2008): "DW2.0"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for DW2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems), by William H. Inmon, Derek Strauss, and Genia Neushloss, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008, reposted here: Awareness of this book arose following

Past Book Review (July 4, 2006): "Software Estimation"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices), by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2006, reposted here: McConnell immediately differentiates between software estimation as a science and software estimation as an art within the first pages of the introduction

Product Reviews: Part 7

This past week (September 4, 2014), my Amazon reviews hit the milestone of 2000 helpful votes. Approximately a year ago, my Amazon reviews hit the milestone of 2000 cast votes. While my reviewer ranking has decreased considerably during the past year, due to less review writing, existing reviews appear to

New Book Review: "Agile Data Warehouse Design"

New book review for Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema, by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto, DecisionOne Press, 2011, reposted here: Good step-by-step guide for capturing data warehousing requirements and building dimensional models from these requirements through modelstorming (data modeling plus brainstorming) with business

New Book Review: "Practical Machine Learning"

New book review for Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation, by Ellen Friedman and Ted Dunning, O'Reilly, 2014, reposted here: This work is a short, white paper sized text that walks the reader through practical aspects of machine learning recommendation, specifically for those who are new to this