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These are my highlights while reading Robert C. Martin's book Clean Agile: Back to Basics. Preface Uncle Bob starts with a disclaimer. This book is not a work of research. Think of it as a memoir. I knew this upfront and I was looking forward to see him grumbling about what the world has done to his Agile. Big things don't get done by big teams. Big things get done by many small teams collaborating while doing many small things. This is what programmers in 1950s and 1960s new instinctively and this is what got lost in 1970s. Couple of folks reinvented this idea and called it 'Agile'. It has been nearly 20 years from the start of this movement and Martin thinks it is already time for yet another reboot. Acknowledgments I usually don't read Acknowledgments, but these ones have exceptional list of names. It is basically a to-do list for following and reading the mentioned people. Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Ken Schwaber, Mary Poppendick, Ron Jeffries and

This is not my kind of book. I usually read books about programming. But the beginning of the book was quite funny. Steve Krug dedicated the book to the woman who laughed so hard while reading this book that milk came out of her nose.  Introduction - Read me first Krug wrote this book for people who cannot afford to have an usability expert in their team. The book is short on purpose - it is more likely it will be used. Krug's definition of usability is: An average person can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth. This is quite similar to how readability is important when programming. Chapter 1 - Don't make me think This is the first Krug's law of usability. The things we create should be self-evident, so the average people could immediately tell 'Oh, that's a ____'. If you can't make something self-evident, you should at least make it self-explanatory. This reminds me of a Screaming Archite