Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1 EAN: 9780596527679 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596527675 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 438 Publication Date: October 26, 2007 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 9851 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionThe Art of Agile Development contains practical guidance for anyone considering or applying agile development for building valuable software. Plenty of books describe what agile development is or why it helps software projects succeed, but very few combine information for developers, managers, testers, and customers into a single package that they can apply directly. This book provides no-nonsense advice on agile planning, development, delivery, and management taken from the authors' many years of experience with Extreme Programming (XP). You get a gestalt view of the agile development process, including comprehensive guidance for non-technical readers and hands-on technical practices for developers and testers. The Art of Agile Development gives you clear answers to questions such as: How can we adopt agile development? Do we really need to pair program? What metrics should we report? What if I can't get my customer to participate? How much documentation should we write? When do we design and architect? As a non-developer, how should I work with my agile team? Where is my product roadmap? How does QA fit in? The book teaches you how to adopt XP practices, describes each practice in detail, then discusses principles that will allow you to modify XP and create your own agile method. In particular, this book tackles the difficult aspects of agile development: the need for cooperation and trust among team members. Whether you're currently part of an agile team, working with an agile team, or interested in agile development, this book provides the practical tips you need to start practicing agile development. As your experience grows, the book will grow with you, providing exercises andinformation that will teach you first to understand the rules of agile development, break them, and ultimately abandon rules altogether as you master the art of agile development. 'Jim Shore and Shane Warden expertly explain the practices and benefits of Extreme Programming. They offer advice from their real-world experiences in leading teams. They answer questions about the practices and show contraindications - ways that a practice may be mis-applied. They offer alternatives you can try if there are impediments to applying a practice, such as the lack of an on-site customer. --Ken Pugh, Author of Jolt Award Winner, Prefactoring 'I will leave a copy of this book with every team I visit.' --Brian Marick, Exampler Consulting
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Rating: - An extremely practical guide to extreme programming
This book has three parts in it - introduction to agility, guide to extreme programming and afterthoughts. You may want to read this book if you want to set up XP in your team or participate in it. It is mostly beneficial for the developers or project managers to read it.
The first part (Getting Started) is about 40 pages long and just puts you on the right track by discussing what agility means and introducing you to extreme programming. Here is where the authors explain how to determine ... Read More
Rating: - My favorite Agile Development book
I have about a dozen books on Agile and Lean development and this rapidly became my favorite.
Why: It's advice at the level I can use. Clear solid explanation and methods to understand what to do, what not to do, and most important, why.
It's just incredibly easy to read and use.
I've already bought 2 more copies to share with friends!
Rating: - Best book on XP practice
In my opinion, this is the best book for someone starting to implement XP. Before this book, other two books on XP practice were "XP applied" and "XP installed".
Book by James Shore and Shane Warden provides more broad coverage, then previous books, and contains a lot of good advice, what to do, what not do, and how to do what should be done, while going to the path of Agility.
Presentation is based on the XP, but book also shows a more wide perspective, and contains comparison with ... Read More
Rating: - Great book on Agile development
This book is very well written and gives a great description of many different types of Agile practices. Although the book centers around XP, I think many of the techniques and practices could be brought over to any of the different Agile disciplines. The book also goes into the all important steps of selling agile practices to those with the money: managers, directors, stake holders, and the customers. This is a very important step! The book is also nice in that it doesn't necessarily have to be read ... Read More
Rating: - Missing experimental results
After reaching 100 pages I felt really disappointed. I was looking something more similar to "Beautiful code" but about management. I have found a book without facts and measures but "tips". I think that we [developers, project managers and other animals] should try to move our profession towards a scientific discipline (i.e. hypothesis-measure pairs).
I was looking for something either like "Mythical man-month"/"Peopleware" or the IEEE articles "voice of evidence". I didn't found any of those. ... Read More
- An extremely practical guide to extreme programming
- Missing experimental results
