The Reading Executive

Notes from Chapter 4 of Dean Leffingwell's Agile Software Requirements: the added challenges of agile requirements at the program level, and how component teams and feature teams compare.

“Crucial Conversations skills are only applicable if you live or work with or near other people,” writes one of the authors, a statement I wholly agree with. The authors didn’t set out to write a book on communication, but they definitely highlighted how difficult it can be and how important it is…

In 1995, Pixar successfully released Toy Story, the first full length feature film created solely with computer animation. Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, had accomplished his life-long mission of doing just that and now felt lost.

In Rework, each chapter is broken up into several one- to two-page sections. That makes for an incredibly easy and fast read, but made it pretty difficult to summarize concisely because they cover SO much material (hence you get a pretty comprehensive summary of the book in this post)!