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Isidro López

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Review of 'Mob Programming' on 'Goodreads'

AMAZING book.

It was really an unexpected surprise: I wanted to read it for a long time since I've been a big fan of pair programming and I suspect that mob might be "even better".
I felt too lazy though to read it, until recently: we started as a new team doing mob during the first weeks, so I felt a special motivation to do it.

What I loved about this book is that it goes far beyond of the surface: since everything is connected, it touches all the different pieces that somehow affect and are affected by the level of collaboration when we work.

A special mention to the chapter with cost analysis (to take with a pinch of salt anyway) and the one with the personal experience of an introvert in the context of a continuous mob team.

SUPER recommendable :-)

Review of 'Estar con Los Que Mueren' on 'Goodreads'

A "tough" book (if you read it with "fully conscious"), about one of the most important and remaining taboos of our society: the taboo of death.

Even if reading will never replace any experience, it can be a good trigger for some reflections and reconnecting with life at its whole... which includes its termination.

Review of 'Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design' on 'Goodreads'

Amazing book.

Highly pedagogical thanks to the tones of code and examples that come with the theory, which is the main asset of the book, from my point of view.
Also very complete, getting a little bit into CQRS and ES (Event Sourcing).

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get deeper into DDD and see other people approaches.

Review of 'Lecturas de historia de la psicología' on 'Goodreads'

Interesante pero, irónicamente, no es muy pedagógico que digamos...
No lo recomendaría si no es porque tienes que presentarte a "Historia de la Psicología" por la UNED ^____^

Review of 'Influencia y PersuasióN. Serie Inteligencia Emocional HBR (Influence and Persuasion Spanish Edition)' on 'Goodreads'

Libro interesante, aunque me deja con una típica sensación de este tipo de lecturas: la de estar en frente de una lectura "fast food" superficial sobre el comportamiento humano (aunque entiendo que en parte ésa es la idea de este tipo de publicaciones).

Tiene su punto en cualquier caso, y siempre está bien como disparador para profundizar en otras cuestiones. Otra de las inquietudes que me despierta es hasta qué punto los estudios presentados son "anecdóticos" o no.

Aún así, supongo que recomendaría su lectura: en el peor de los casos, es bastante ameno :-)

Camille Fournier: The Manager's Path (Paperback, 2017, O'Reilly Media)

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is …

Review of "The Manager's Path" on 'Goodreads'

I liked it (that's what the 3 stars rating means :-p ).

Some very good insights, advice and hints.

Also, many things missing from my point of view (missing much more XP), and some "wrong" approaches (I would say "too American/competitive/individualistic" approach sometimes, and other times too "mainstream", like assuming traditional estimations, too much focus on the 1on1s versus open team retrospectives, etc.).

It would have been nice to use a gender-neutral "they" in a consistent way, instead of jumping from "he" to "she" continuously, sometimes it was confusing to me.