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by Jim Highsmith (Author)
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Presents the key practices of all Agile development approaches, offers overviews of specific techniques, and show how you can choose the approach that best suits your organization. Softcover.

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In a highly volatile software development environment, developers must be nimble, responsive, and able to hit a moving target--in short, they must be agile. Agile software development is designed to address this need for speed and flexibility. Agility describes a holistic, collaborative environment in which you can both create and respond to change by focusing on adaptability over predictability, people over process. Agile software development incorporates proven software engineering techniques, but without the overhead and restrictions of traditional development methodologies. Above all, it fulfills its promise of delivering software that serves the client's business needs.

Written by one of the leaders of the Agile movement, and including interviews with Agile gurus Kent Beck, Robert Charette, Alistair Cockburn, Martin Fowler, Ken Schwaber, and Ward Cunningham, Agile Software Development Ecosystems crystallizes the current understanding of this flexible and highly successful approach to software development. It presents the key practices of all Agile development approaches, offers overviews of specific techniques, and shows how you can choose the approach that best suits your organization.

This book describes--in depth--the most important principles of Agile development: delivering value to the customer, focusing on individual developers and their skills, collaboration, an emphasis on producing working software, the critical contribution of technical excellence, and a willingness to change course when demands shift. All major Agile methods are presented:

  • Scrum
  • Dynamic Systems Development Method
  • Crystal Methods
  • Feature-Driven Development
  • Lean Development
  • Extreme Programming
  • Adaptive Software Development

Throughout the book, case stories are used to illustrate how Agile practices empower success around the world in today's chaotic software development industry. Agile Software Development Ecosystems also examines how to determine your organization's Agile readiness, how to design a custom Agile methodology, and how to transform your company into a truly Agile organization.



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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (April 5, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0201760436
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201760439
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #376,934 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars good overview, good description of what agile means, June 19, 2002
By C. K. Ray "agile sw developer" (Silicon Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I found Jim Highsmith's Agile Software Development Ecosystems to be an easier read than his first book Adaptive Software Development.

This one is an overview of the Agile methods and people behind them -- Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development Method, Crystal Clear, Feature Driven Development, Lean Development, Extreme Programming, Adaptive Software Development, Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Ken Schwaber, Martin Fowler, Ward Cunningham, himself, Bob Charette -- and descriptions of some projects each method was used on.

None of the method descriptions are in-depth enough to actually do them, but they provide enough information to point you into a direction for further investigation. There is some discussion about Agile principles and values, and Agile methods versus non-Agile methods and Company Culture and Market Style, and some discussion on "how to make your own agile methodology" (or how to adapt one to your company's requirements).

I recommend it.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but read this second :), January 7, 2004
By xFlibble (Australia) - See all my reviews
I found the book a good read, but feel that for trying to "show people the light", it gives sceptics a bit too much ammunition. Craig Larman's "Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide" is better written, of more immediate practical value and more likely to win over the sceptics. Try Larman's book first, then this one for further perspectives...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good book with GREAT insight into the Agile methodologists, September 25, 2002
By Kyle Brown (Apex, NC United States) - See all my reviews
This book is a good overview of the Agile movement, it's goals and aims, and provides a passable description of several of the methods that have now been labeled as "Agile" as opposed to the lumbering, dinosaur-like methods we have previously used (like the Rational Unified Process and its ancestors).

But that's not why you should buy this book. The best thing about the book are the personal interviews with several of the members of the Agile alliance like Kent Beck, Martin Fowler and Alistair Cockburn. The interviews give you special insight into their personalities that reading their own work won't give you, and helps you place their work in context.

The book is light and very readable (rare for a book on software methodology) and you given its structure you can even put it down for a few days and then come back without losing the thread of what is being discussed. Overall, it's a good "endcap" addition to any software developer's bookshelf right after the books on XP, Crystal and SCRUM.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good survey and overview
If you want to get an overview of the Agile movement and all its offshoots, this is a good book for you. If you want to dig deeper, you should probably read something else.
Published 11 months ago by sahak

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Intro to Agile
Jim Highsmith does an excellent job of introducing you to the agile software philosophy. This book includes the basic motivation for agility in the software arena, the... Read more
Published on February 24, 2004 by M. Hall

1.0 out of 5 stars It's amazing what stuff gets published...
A group of us where we work were going through this book together. We were hoping for a good introduction to the various agile processes, or "ecosystems" as the book... Read more
Published on January 21, 2004 by J. Meeker

4.0 out of 5 stars Good first introduction to Agile methods
If you're new to Agile methods, this is a great place to start. The overviews and perspectives brought by the interviews provide an excellent introduction. Read more
Published on December 21, 2003 by Lars Bergstrom

5.0 out of 5 stars Double WOW!!
To me, as a developer, Bob Martin's "Agile Software Development" deserved the first WOW! As a manager, Jim Highsmith's "Agile Software Development Ecosystems" merited that WOW... Read more
Published on November 12, 2003 by Peter Ho

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings it all together better than any other book so far
This book basically brings together the major players and their methods, and explores the differences and similarities between them. Read more
Published on February 7, 2003 by R. Harwood

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excelent starter
A very good starter for Agile practices.
I have been involved in software projects in different roles( programmer, Architect, manager, integrator etc) for 20 years. Read more
Published on December 8, 2002 by JAKUBOVITZ ITZHAK

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
This book is about "The Agile Movement", if there is such a word.
This books attempts to convey the rationale and "night thoughts" of veterans who have been... Read more
Published on April 29, 2002 by B. K. Lau

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