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“In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years’ worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of improvement with XP, you must read this book.”

― Francesco Cirillo, Chief Executive Officer, XPLabs S.R.L. “The first edition of this book told us what XP was―it changed the way many of us think about software development. This second edition takes it farther and gives us a lot more of the ‘why’ of XP, the motivations and the principles behind the practices. This is great stuff. Armed with the ‘what’ and the ‘why,’ we can now all set out to confidently work on the ‘how’: how to run our projects better, and how to get agile techniques adopted in our organizations.”

― Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers LLC “This book is dynamite! It was revolutionary when it first appeared a few years ago, and this new edition is equally profound. For those who insist on cookbook checklists, there’s an excellent chapter on ‘primary practices,’ but I urge you to begin by truly contemplating the meaning of the opening sentence in the first chapter of Kent Beck’s book: ‘XP is about social change.’ You should do whatever it takes to ensure that every IT professional and every IT manager―all the way up to the CIO―has a copy of Extreme Programming Explained on his or her desk.”

― Ed Yourdon, author and consultant “XP is a powerful set of concepts for simplifying the process of software design, development, and testing. It is about minimalism and incrementalism, which are especially useful principles when tackling complex problems that require a balance of creativity and discipline.”

― Michael A. Cusumano, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of The Business of Software “ Extreme Programming Explained is the work of a talented and passionate craftsman. Kent Beck has brought together a compelling collection of ideas about programming and management that deserves your full attention. My only beef is that our profession has gotten to a point where such common-sense ideas are labeled ‘extreme.’...”

― Lou Mazzucchelli, Fellow, Cutter Business Technology Council “If your organization is ready for a change in the way it develops software, there’s the slow incremental approach, fixing things one by one, or the fast track, jumping feet first into Extreme Programming. Do not be frightened by the name, it is not that extreme at all. It is mostly good old recipes and common sense, nicely integrated together, getting rid of all the fat that has accumulated over the years.”

― Philippe Kruchten, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia “Sometimes revolutionaries get left behind as the movement they started takes on a life of its own. In this book, Kent Beck shows that he remains ahead of the curve, leading XP to its next level. Incorporating five years of feedback, this book takes a fresh look at what it takes to develop better software in less time and for less money. There are no silver bullets here, just a set of practical principles that, when used wisely, can lead to dramatic improvements in software development productivity.”

― Mary Poppendieck, author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit “Kent Beck has revised his classic book based on five more years of applying and teaching XP. He shows how the path to XP is both

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“In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years' worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of improvement with XP, you must read this book.”

― Francesco Cirillo, Chief Executive Officer, XPLabs S.R.L. “The first edition of this book told us what XP was―it changed the way many of us think about software development. This second edition takes it farther and gives us a lot more of the ‘why' of XP, the motivations and the principles behind the practices. This is great stuff. Armed with the ‘what' and the ‘why,' we can now all set out to confidently work on the ‘how': how to run our projects better, and how to get agile techniques adopted in our organizations.”

― Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers LLC “This book is dynamite! It was revolutionary when it first appeared a few years ago, and this new edition is equally profound. For those who insist on cookbook checklists, there's an excellent chapter on ‘primary practices,' but I urge you to begin by truly contemplating the meaning of the opening sentence in the first chapter of Kent Beck's book: ‘XP is about social change.' You should do whatever it takes to ensure that every IT professional and every IT manager―all the way up to the CIO―has a copy of Extreme Programming Explained on his or her desk.”

― Ed Yourdon, author and consultant “XP is a powerful set of concepts for simplifying the process of software design, development, and testing. It is about minimalism and incrementalism, which are especially useful principles when tackling complex problems that require a balance of creativity and discipline.”

― Michael A. Cusumano, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of The Business of Software“ Extreme Programming Explained is the work of a talented and passionate craftsman. Kent Beck has brought together a compelling collection of ideas about programming and management that deserves your full attention. My only beef is that our profession has gotten to a point where such common-sense ideas are labeled ‘extreme.'...”

― Lou Mazzucchelli, Fellow, Cutter Business Technology Council“If your organization is ready for a change in the way it develops software, there's the slow incremental approach, fixing things one by one, or the fast track, jumping feet first into Extreme Programming. Do not be frightened by the name, it is not that extreme at all. It is mostly good old recipes and common sense, nicely integrated together, getting rid of all the fat that has accumulated over the years.”

― Philippe Kruchten, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia“Sometimes revolutionaries get left behind as the movement they started takes on a life of its own. In this book, Kent Beck shows that he remains ahead of the curve, leading XP to its next level. Incorporating five years of feedback, this book takes a fresh look at what it takes to develop better software in less time and for less money. There are no silver bullets here, just a set of practical principles that, when used wisely, can lead to dramatic improvements in software development productivity.”

― Mary Poppendieck, author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit “Kent Beck has revised his classic book based on five more years of applying and teaching XP. He shows how the path to XP is both easy and hard: It can be started with fewer practices, and yet it challenges teams to go farther than ever.”

― William Wake, independent consultant “With new insights, wisdom from experience, and clearer explanations of the art of Extreme Programming, this edition of Beck's classic will help many realize the dream of outstanding software development.”

― Joshua Kerievsky, author of Refactoring to Patterns and F

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Kent Beck consistently challenges software engineering dogma, promoting ideas like patterns, test-driven development, and Extreme Programming. Currently affiliated with Three Rivers Institute and Agitar Software, he is the author of many Addison-Wesley titles.

Cynthia Andres holds a B.S. in psychology with advanced work in organizational behavior, decision analysis, and women’s studies. She has worked with Kent on the social aspects of Extreme Programming since its inception. She is also affiliated with Three Rivers Institute.

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Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
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Dan Hoon

The first edition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2005

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If you already know XP, you perhaps want to know whether to buy this book. I'll try to answer that question.
The first edition of this book marked a watershed in the way I thought about software. I did leave many questions unanswered, however, as our team struggled to implement the practices 'out of the box'. Perhaps a bit too much revolutionary zeal.
The breadth of the second edition is far greater. It explains the principles so that you can adapt them to your own circumstances, without subverting their original intent. As such it is a far more usefull book than the first edition, even if it lacks the bold audacity of the former - or maybe the ideas of XP dont seem so left of field anymore.

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Harish Hareendra Babu

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I have put off reading about XP for a while because I thought that it wasn’t required to be a good developer. I stand corrected now and would recommend this book to be a requirement for all developers.

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Marcus Price

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2012

This is a revised edition of the classic, controversial work that put the spotlight firmly on lightweight, iterative software-development methodologies that collectively became known as "agile".

The first edition of the book was published in 1999. Although iterative methodologies were being used at that time, the waterfall process was predominantly used. Although Royce does in fact describe a partially-iterative approach, most implementations were strictly waterfall in application: the phases of requirements specification, design, construction, integration, testing, installation, and maintenance were each executed, then frozen and signed-off in strict order.

At the same time, software-development toolsets were becoming more powerful. In addition, some programming languages, such as Smalltalk and Java, where becoming flexible enough to model real-world problems and to generate and deploy code from these models. This ability to generate software rapidly, and to elicit feedback quickly from the end-customer, allowed software developers to:
* Iterate the waterfall process many times in one project by implementing a software system incrementally;
* Be able to deal with requirements that change as a response to business change rather than having them frozen at the beginning of the project.

This approach, along with other features, coalesced into XP. XP has a number of features in common in with other software-development methodologies and a few unique ones. The common features are that projects are iterative, ie they repeat the same activities in a cyclical fashion, incrementally deploying the system at the end of each iteration, resulting in rapid feedback of any issues. It puts emphasis on intense communication between end-customers and developers.

The features that are unique to XP are:
* a simple documentation set, especially for requirements and design - the key artefacts are automated tests and code.
* visible artefacts on public display in the work environment, so that newcomers can see the status of the project in a few seconds. This is an idea derived from Lean process of business improvement.
* pair programming, where two developers sit at the same workstation and work on the same code. The idea is to lower the number of defects without having a lengthy, off-line code review.
* to aim to develop the simplest thing that could work.

The projects to which XP is best suited have the following characteristics:
* highly uncertain or rapidly-changing requirements;
* having lower formality - for example less likely to be of a mission-critical nature and less likely to have a high systems-engineering element;
* a high degree of human-computer interaction (GUIs), rather than, say, a real-time messaging system;
* the stakeholders (especially the developers) have experience of, or are willing to support, highly-collaborative methods of working;
* having a contract that supports iterative working and promotes customer-supplier collaboration.

XP has been subjected to a number of criticisms - some more justified than others.
The most common criticism is that it encourages "hacker" indiscipline. This would certainly be justified if XP's other practices were not followed. However, the practices of pair-programming, the emphasis on testing and limiting the hours of the working week seem far-removed from the work of a lone hacker.

However, another criticism - that pair programming (mandated by XP) is not suited to all developers - has more credence. The statement that those who do not wish pair are shown the door may not be workable (or desirable) in some environments.

Another criticism is that system design is ignored. Certainly, the first edition or the book downplayed system design. The new edition states more clearly the importance of design but that it should be as lightweight as possible. For this to work efficiently, the team needs to be seeded with a number of experienced XP practitioners.

Another criticism is that XP is silent over how projects interface with other corporate planning activities such as corporate reporting and programme management. This is a valid criticism but links can be made to recognised governance frameworks such as (PRINCE2), either directly, or via other practices such as DSDM or Scrum.
So why did this book create such a stir when it first published in 1999? Several other iterative methodologies where in use before this date: Evo (60s); Spiral model (80s); RAD, DSDM, Scrum, RUP, ICONIX (all early- to mid-90s).

Several factors contributed to XP's notoriety. It had a polemical tone; it was a developer-led call-to-arms against a perceived bureaucracy. This was felt to prevent direct contact between developers and end-customers and lead to a lack of rapid feedback, leading to frustration in both camps. In addition, some non-XP practitioners became irritated at the publicity XP received. These people re-stated the (sometimes-justified) criticisms - which of course led to more publicity for XP.

The strident tone has been smoothed in the second edition: a more reflective and holistic view is evidenced. However, the practices seem as radical as ever, for example, the suggestion of making incremental software changes to live system on a daily basis.
Even in its second edition, Extreme Programming Explain remains a powerful and controversial read. Essential for all software and systems engineers - even if only to find out what all the fuss is about.

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Thomsen

Changed my life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2018

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It was only after reading this book that I realized there might be value in this "agile" thing. There's more to agile than Scrum-branded processes and tools, and XP is much more than just "agile technical practices". The XP practices are good, but it's really the values and principles that matter.

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S. Mckenna

An open look into a great methodology

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2014

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I've been part of an agile transformation for 18 months, and have been embracing a lot of the concepts in the book due to some great coaching. However I've recently left said company, so it has been great to read about embracing change, reaffirming my views and learning new perspectives, which I can now introduce to my new company, who are at the start of their agile transformation.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2015

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Very pleased with this a must read for any agile team. If you run a team make everyone read this book it is so worth it.

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javier

Already a classic, but always current and fulll of good advice

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2014

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Very well written, a must-read for software developers and people in the software development business.

Would recommend it to anyone.

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Mr T

Not fit for developers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2010

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I'm a software developer looking for ideas of how to implement a small project using XP approach.
This book is not for me or any developer. Kent Beck is introducing the concepts of XP to the audience. In my case, the book is trying to preach the converted. I was looking for advice on HOW to implement the Extreme programming concepts. Instead i got a slight overview of WHAT XP is.
If you know nothing about XP, buy this book.
If you know about XP and want advice on HOW to implement XP. DO NOT buy this book.

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