- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (8 Feb 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130674826
- ISBN-13: 978-0130674821
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,699,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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XP is taking off like a rocket, rapidly becoming the world's most popular agile methodology. Now, there's a readable, concise guide that brings together all the guidance and best practices you need to make XP work in your organization. The authors begin by introducing the key practices that developers must take to heart in order to make XP work, and the key players in an XP project -- including developers, managers, and customers. You'll learn how to create a vision of your proposed software system, write effective user stories and acceptance tests, and plan for regular releases and iterations. The book identifies best practices for XP testing, "coding with intention," integration, and refactoring -- showing how developers can overcome the challenges early XP implementers have encountered, and achieve the powerful benefits XP can provide. For all software developers, architects, analysts, and project managers interested in XP and agile methodologies.
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The one-stop guide for everyone getting started with eXtreme Programming!
- Making XP principles work in the real world
- Best practices for the entire project lifecycle: conceptualization through delivery
- Understand the role of every participant: developer, manager, and customer
- Specific solutions to the most common XP transitioning problems
Practically overnight, Extreme Programming (XP) has become one of the world's leading agile methodologies. Now, there's an easy, concise introduction that delivers all the guidance and best practices you need to make XP work in your organization!
A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming doesn't just introduce key XP principles such as simplicity, communication, and feedback: it shows how to make them work in the real world. Using a start-to-finish case study, this book covers the entire project lifecycle, every key task, and the role of every XP participant—developers, managers, and customers. Coverage includes:
- Envisioning your proposed software system
- Writing effective user stories and acceptance tests
- Planning for regular releases and iterations
- "Coding with intention"
- Best practices for integration, refactoring, testing, and delivery
- Overcoming the challenges of transitioning to XP
Want all the benefits XP can provide? Want to implement XP as smoothly and painlessly as possible? This is the place to start!
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Format:Paperback
The book arrived in my mail box yesterday, it took exactly a month since I purchased it. Well, from America to Italy, it's a long way... the book is in good condition and I am happy with it. I think it was a very good buy. Thank you, thriftbooks.
Format:Paperback
An extremely practical and pragmatic guide to deciding about and implementing XP.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
1)Pet Hate: I hate publishers that bind books that make it impossible to read towards the middle of the book. I cannot understand why a publisher can bind a book like this and make it VERY difficult to keep the book open at any point through the book! (The book looses a star for this!)
2) The Book (Content): The book makes a lot of sense, what I mean by this is not only the content but the way it was written. It takes the XP principles and in an almost essay type style presents the reader with the processes followed. This makes it a lot easier to understand rather than having the type of bullet point texts which one cannot remember anyway.
My personal views on XP programming is probably a biased one and not fit for this review, what I can add is that I do agree with 90% of what happens in XP, but some of it I cannot agree with due to practical experience. Even so I think this book will compliment any software engineer, project manager and future customers (of software) reading library.
Some will observe that old ideas never die; may I suggest the following reading to compliment your library?
- Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed.
Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
-The Mythical Man-month
Frederick P. Brooks (1995)
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