From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2001-03-15T02:55:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12641] Re: Order, chaos, and change requests :)

    >> Well, I can't speak for Dave, but I rather liked
    >> the book "EdgeWare", as well as parts of Jim Highmith's 
    >
    >Any more specific refs for this -- there is an Edgeware Road
    >in London (where all the electronics shops used to be!) so a
    >search will turn up loads of stuff I expect :-)

"Edgeware: Insights from Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders"
Brenda Zimmerman, Ph.D., Curt Lindberg and Paul Plesk
Published 1998 by the VHA
ISBN 0-9667828-0-1

Despite the fact that the project domain is health care, it's an excellent
look at applying complexity theory to organizations.  You can find plenty
of echoes of XP, Scrum, and other agile development methods in this stuff.
And you can also easily see what kills many software projects dead
in their tracks :-)

Jim Highsmith's book is "Adaptive Software Development", ISBN 0-932633-40-4.

Richard Gabriel's OOPSLA essay is on line at: 
    oopsla.acm.org/oopsla2k/postconf/Gabriel.pdf


Happy reading!

/\ndy

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