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The Art of Agile Development
by: James Shore, Shane Warden

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1
EAN: 9780596527679
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.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 4625

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- A treasure. How to apply Extreme Programming in a real project
This book is a treasure. Not only does it explain Agile Development
clearly and entertainingly, but it is thoroughly grounded in how it pans
out in real organisations. It also covers several business and software
engineering issues which I didn't expect, such as unit testing
techniques and process improvement.

It is aimed at people who want to start using Extreme Programming on
their software development projects. It seems that XP is almost, but not
quite, synonymous with Agile Development. For each of its principles, we
learn the concept, what the outcome should be, how it might go wrong,
and where to read more. Sometimes there is a short FAQ section. If your
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- Great springboard into Agile and XP.
After reading a couple of books on Agile, The Art of Agile Development does the best job of presenting all the ideas and concepts needed to start putting it all into practice. Previously I've been left with questions about how to go about implementing certain ideas or mis-understood key concepts, I felt able enough to start putting a lot of Agile and XP concepts into practice straight away.

The material itself is very digestable and written in a great down to earth manner. Rather then being a case of teacher lecturing to their student, it felt a lot like someone who's been there and gone through all the pains before hand, had come round to visit one afternoon to tell you what they had learnt and what they believe works best.

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- A warts and all account of Agile development
I received this book then skimmed the authors biographies to see if they are web 2.0 hippies. My experience with the agile method is that is used to excuse sloppy work practises or when a developer wants to avoid boring stuff like documentation, requirements gathering, project planning or testing. I rank it along side similar claims such as graphic designers cannot arrive at work on-time and sober because artistic inspiration only strikes early in the morning in night clubs while talking to beautiful people. In short I don't understand it and it is what the cool people do.

My objectives of reading this book were to

Understand what agile Development really is.
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