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The 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 and information 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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James Shore has been leading teams in Agile development since 1999. A team member on that first project introduced him Ward Cunningham's wiki, where they were talking about a crazy idea called Extreme Programming. Despite the ridiculous name, James tried Extreme Programming on his next project and discovered that it worked far better than it sounded. James has been speaking, teaching, and writing about Agile methods ever since. Today, he continues to lead Agile teams using the best ideas from Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Lean.

James has contributed a large number of projects and ideas to the Agile community. He authored the first test-driven development framework for .NET web programming and coordinated the development of Ward Cunningham's Fit, the first major acceptance-testing tool. In 2005, the Agile Alliance recognized James with their highest honor, the Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice. James is a featured speaker at conferences around the world. He may be found online at jamesshore.com.

Shane Warden manages Onyx Neon Press, an independent publisher. His areas of expertise include agile software development, language design, and virtual machines for dynamic languages. He is also a published novelist. His books include The Art of Agile Development and Masterminds of Programming.

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James Shore has been leading teams in practicing Agile development since 1999. He combines a deep understanding of Agile ideas with decades of in-the-trenches practical development experience. He uses this experience to help people understand how all aspects of Agile fit together to create outstanding results. James is a recipient of the Agile Alliance's Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice, author of The Art of Agile Development, and co-creator of the Agile Fluency Model. He may be found online at jamesshore.com.

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JARED R CLEMENCE

This book changed my life.

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2015

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This book has changed the way in which I code. I am a programming department of one in a pediatric heart clinic. Working with the old methods, which require scope documents, vision documents, requirement documents and signoffs from all stakeholders did not get me anywhere. The stakeholders failed to understand why it was that I was meeting with them and asking them questions, and as much as I tried to communicate it, they didn't see the value in dedicating a few minutes to discuss what they needed and why they needed it. After 3 years of the producing nothing with the old method, I read this book, and I started applying the Agile Development strategies.

On the recommendation in the book, I created a simple application in one week, tested it and released it into production, and now people wanted to talk to me about the application. "This is great, but could it also do X, Y, and Z?!" they would say. Finally, I had the customer engagement I had been searching for, and I started making the changes and releasing new versions of the software every Friday.

It has been three months, and I have finally got a version of the software that is comparable to the system I was trying to build in my first three years at the clinic. The software was built one update at a time, and gets regular support and feedback from the users. Now that I have implemented some of the Agile Strategies into my work, I will never go back to the "old" ways.

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David Wight

If you do agile development, you should read this book

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The Art of Agile Development is one of a handful of books that should be read by any serious practitioner of agile software development. It complements my other favorite books, with an emphasis on practical implementation of agile practices and the issues and complications that inevitably arise. Although the book focuses on practices derived from XP (eXtreme Programming), I found it to be relevant and applicable to agile development in general, and recommend it to other ScrumMasters and agile proponents. It provides clear explanations, rationales and practical examples of concepts I've studied and practiced for years, but still struggle to master.

The authors define the scope and organization of the book in the Preface and then deliver exactly what they promise in a clear and concise way. Part 1 includes a brief but effective summary of agile principles and of XP concepts and practices. I especially liked their opening section describing how an agile approach aligns with success.

After pointing out that agile is no silver bullet and that implementation can be a challenge, the authors discuss the specifics of introduction of XP into an organization and present a concrete implementation as a starting point. In Part 2, they present a set of 37 practices that, taken together, form a practical approach for getting started. Their descriptions include practical advice, specific suggestions and potential pitfalls.

Part 3 is intended to provide guidance to experienced agile practitioners as they develop and hone agile practices to fit their specific circumstances. There are really no new ideas presented, but it is a succinct and well organized presentation of values, principals and practices that are critical to successful implementation of any agile methodology. The book concludes with an excellent bibliography.

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Practical, De-mystifying, Comprehensive

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2008

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This is a fabulous book for anyone interested in transitioning to agile or who wants to prune, right size, re-vitalize or increase velocity on your current agile projects.

The insiders view (XP developer, architect, programmer) is unleashed with balance and care to give you the big picture. That means that not just developers, but also other stakeholders will benefit from this book: testers, business analysts, quality assurance folk, project leaders/managers, coaches, team facilitators and any other delivery team or advisory stakeholders.

I really liked the dense information provided around the breath of topics from visioning and planning to incremental design and test-driven/exploratory testing; from how to deal with bugs in the backlog to collaboration tips. Jim and Shane offer a wealth of practical, real-world wisdom.

The format provides sidebar "allies" on practices so you can make connections in practices. At the close of each chapter the authors provide something quite friendly and practical: short sections for "Questions" (what question might you ask about the topic just discussed), "Results" (outcomes of the practice you should experience), "Contraindications" (things to watch out for), "Alternatives" (other ways to approach the topic), and "Further Reading" (references to other published works). This ties up each topic beautifully.

Regardless of your official role on your project or what flavor of agile you practice, you will greatly benefit by reading, studying, applying, and continually dipping into this wonderful book.

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Repetitive but valuable

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2012

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I think this book and the whole concept of Agile development is something engineers instinctively know --- that you know what the real problems are only when you are neck deep into a project. All the planning, schedules and resource management cannot hold a candle to the learning that happens during the project. And yet, no project can take midcourse corrections lightly. To me this book is first and foremost great management cover for engineers --- so that engineers could ask their management "Are you familiar with Agile development?" and watch them wonder if they were the dinosaurs they always suspected they were, instead of going "but... but... " and thereby falling into the smart-but-not-practical caricature.

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Alessio

Ottimo libro

Reviewed in Italy on July 8, 2015

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Ho comprato questo libro perché volevo studiare meglio XP in vista della certificazione PMI-ACP ed è stato un ottimo investimento.
E' scritto molto bene, chiaro e scorrevole con tantissimi spunti da applicare nell'attività lavorativa.

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Mr. David J. Poole

Converted me to agile after much scepticism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2015

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I have recommended this book to several people. As someone who was initially sceptical about agile despite having read much on the subject I found that this book converted me.
Having put the recommendations in this book into practice I can vouch for there effectiveness.

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Eli

A very good introduction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2013

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This is a great introduction to XP (extreme programming) and Agile software development practices. Written in a captive and informative way (much of it in first person), which makes it a fun read. The excitement flows through the pages.

Jonathan Brown

Great!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2019

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This was a great book from start to finish

Anderson

Hard to follow up the concept

Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2013

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The author wants to use XP as an example for the entire book to talk about Agile is a very good starting point. But, then when starting to read page by page, it is difficult to follow the structure. At the end, I get lost completely.

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