Ro's Reviews > Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application

First of all, you can read this for yourself, online, for free. That spoke to me... Here's the link:





http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php...




This book is written by the software development team that built Basecamp, Backpack, and Campfire. They are successful, opinionated, and have soom good ideas. Now their business is software development, which is different from instructional design, but it is on some ways analogous. Both involve creativity and technical expertise, teams, budgets and typically short time lines.





Part of the appeal of this book is that the essays are short, pithy and keep things real. I am looking forward to their new book called Rework which is coming out early in March 2010.





Best ideas gleaned from the book:





Small teams: 3 people on a project

Meetings are toxic

Keeping large chunks of quiet time available for working