Exploring Extreme Programming
Six Thinking Hats, by Edward De Bono. It’s easy to fall into a particular pattern of thinking. De Bono proposes a method where various thinking styles are associated with hats of different colors: white (data), red (intuition/emotion), black (pessimistic), yellow (optimistic), green (new Continue reading Review – Six Thinking Hats, by De Bono
Mapping Inner Space, 2/e, Nancy Margulies with Nusa Maal. Zephyr Press, 2002. This book presents techniques for visual maps, their version of mind maps. You can certainly learn the basics without this book, but it makes great use of color Continue reading Review – Mapping Inner Space
The Innovation Algorithm: TRIZ, Systematic Innovation and Technical Creativity, Genrich Altshuller, Technical Innovation Center, 1999 edition. Altshuller was an inventor who systematically studied patents to learn the principles behind them. He developed “algorithms” to take advantage of the principles of Continue reading Review – The Innovation Algorithm
The Thinker’s Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving, Morgan D. Jones. Three Rivers Press, 1995. Tools and exercises for helping you analyze problems, including problem restatement, decision trees, matrices, ranking, hypothesis testing, and utility analysis. (Reviewed Dec., ’02)