Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition View Larger Image | Kent Beck
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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 Founder, Industrial
Logic, Inc.
“XP has changed the way our industry thinks about software development.
Its brilliant simplicity, focused execution, and insistence on fact-based planning
over speculation have set a new standard for software delivery.”
—David Trowbridge, Architect, Microsoft Corporation
Accountability. Transparency. Responsibility. These are not words that are
often applied to software development.
In this completely revised introduction to Extreme Programming (XP), Kent Beck
describes how to improve your software development by integrating these highly
desirable concepts into your daily development process.
The first edition of Extreme Programming Explained is a classic. It won awards
for its then-radical ideas for improving small-team development, such as having
developers write automated tests for their own code and having the whole team
plan weekly. Much has changed in five years. This completely rewritten second
edition expands the scope of XP to teams of any size by suggesting a program
of continuous improvement based on:
- Five core values consistent with excellence in software development
- Eleven principles for putting those values into action
- Thirteen primary and eleven corollary practices to help you push development
past its current business and technical limitations
Whether you have a small team that is already closely aligned with your customers
or a large team in a gigantic or multinational organization, you will find in
these pages a wealth of ideas to challenge, inspire, and encourage you and your
team members to substantially improve your software development.
You will discover how to:
- Involve the whole team—XP style
- Increase technical collaboration through pair programming and continuous
integration
- Reduce defects through developer testing
- Align business and technical decisions through weekly and quarterly planning
- Improve teamwork by setting up an informative, shared workspace
You will also find many other concrete ideas for improvement, all based on
a philosophy that emphasizes simultaneously increasing the humanity and effectiveness
of software development.
Every team can improve. Every team can begin improving today. Improvement is
possible—beyond what we can currently imagine. Extreme Programming Explained,
Second Edition, offers ideas to fuel your improvement for years to come.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Preface.
1. What is XP?
2. Learning to Drive.
3. Values, Principles, and Practices.
4. Values.
5. Principles.
6. Practices.
7. Primary Practices.
8. Getting Started.
9. Corollary Practices.
10. The Whole XP Team.
11. The Theory of Constraints.
12. Planning: Managing Scope.
13. Testing: Early, Often, and Automated.
14. Designing: The Value of Time.
15. Scaling XP.
16. Interview.
17. Creation Story.
18. Taylorism and Software.
19. Toyota Production System.
20. Applying XP.
21. Purity.
22. Offshore Development.
23. The Timeless Way of Programming.
24. Community and XP.
25. Conclusion.
Annotated Bibliography.
Index.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Jan 16, 2005 Mike Cohn (mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com) from Boulder, CO
An expanded vision of XP
If the first edition of this book was a warning shot across the bow of heavyweight methodologies, then this new edition is a call to arms for any team that wants to develop better software faster, and have fun doing it. XP is now being used by teams and in contexts unthinkable when the first edition of this book was published.
This edition is a completely new version of the book. For example, there are new chapters on Taylorism, lean manufacturing, and the theory of constraints. There are many new ideas and XP is now explained more in terms of its values and principles than through strict adherence to twelve specific practices.
In this new edition, Kent Beck expands on the vision of the first and shows us how XP--through the application of its values, principles and practiceshas become more than just a lightweight method for small to medium teams. XP represents an evolving way of thinking about software development. I can think of no better person than Kent Beck to show the way.
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