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Book #2 is Manage It! by Johanna Rothman.  For this one, I wrote an Amazon review.

Last year on my birthday I decided to count the number of books I read during the year.  Somewhere in the middle, I lost track.  Well last week was my birthday so I figured I'd try it again this year.  The first book for this year is a little book from Seth Godin called The Dip. How do you know when to quit something and when ...

The subtitle of Binder's book is "Models, Patterns, and Tools."  Part 2 focuses on the "Models" part. Chapter 5 introduces part 2.  In it, Binder argues that testing must be model-based.  The space that must be examined (tested) for even the smallest useful application is huge.  Applying ...

Binder's book is large and so I think as I work through it I'll post my thoughts as I finish each part.  Here is the post for part 1. Binder starts the book with the classic testing problem of testing a program that produces a triangle.  Since his book is about testing object-oriented systems, he works through an object-oriented ...

But I did bring along Jeffrey Liker's Toyota Way Fieldbook so I can get some reading about lean done when I'm not out enjoying myself...

This is a Goal-esque book that follows the tribulations of the fictional Infrared Technologies Corporation as they struggle with the entropy that has set in to their company and decide on how they will change to recover.  A soon-to-retire engineer, Jon Stevens, is tapped to lead a task force to decide what to do.  In the end, they ...