A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming: Amazon.ca: David Astels, Granville Miller, Miroslav Novak: Books

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Practically overnight, XP has become the world's #1 agile methodology. Now, A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming delivers all the guidance and best practices you need to succeed with XP in your organization. This easy, concise introduction covers the entire project lifecycle, every key task, every participant's role -- and how to make XP's principles work in the real world!

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars XP - Explained Succintly and Iteratively!, Aug 14 2002

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Srihari Mailvaganam (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming (Paperback)

Although I have been a follower of XP and have read David Astels works before, I was initially apprehensive on reading another book on XP programming.

One of the goals of XP is to be succinct and iterative - ironically I had difficulty finding XP books that had followed the goals of XP. My assumption is that many of the books have been rushed to publication.

"Practical Guide to XP" has many more plusses than minuses. There are actual hands-on examples, with code. About a quarter of the book is devoted to test and source code from an XP project. I am normally not a big fan of having complete source code from a project in a book - aside from making the book heavier it generally serves little purpose. In this particular case, it makes sense as the processes of XP can be "followed through". XP is a development process/philosophy - as such it is better for newcomers to follow an actual implementation to fully appreciate the concepts.

This book will help somewhat to clear the fog on the many views on XP. XP, like all development methodologies, is a combination of art and science. There will be many views on methods of practicing XP and each project will be unique. This book will help you decide what you need to use for your particular project.

Hope this helps - please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Real world advice, July 27 2002

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Stewart Baird (Whitby, Porirua New Zealand) - See all my reviews

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The XP book market is getting increasingly crowded; this book differs from the pack as it walks through examples in an easy to grasp format. The book is geared towards Java developers; this is not a problem per se but non-Java developers should be aware of this. My copy of this book is beaten and worn!

I think this is one of the only XP books that links back into Agile Modelling. This is very helpful as XP readers sometimes get the impression that XP throws the baby out with the bathwater; design is still important!

Another aspect I liked was the inclusion of quite few photographs; this helps bridge the gap between the words and understanding. If you're seriously interested in using XP you should get this book.

Where was this book 2 years ago!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Exactly What The Title Says It Is, Jun 20 2002

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David C. Veeneman (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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No muss, no fuss; just a straightforward exposition of what XP is, and what it is not. If you are wondering what all the fuss over XP is all about, this book won't disappoint you. XP is commonly characterized as "Forget planning, just code!" This book clarifies that misconception, and others. It is really directoed at answering the question "How come XP projects don't collapse in chaos?" After reading this book, XP didn't sound nearly as crazy as it does on the newsgroups.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great if you need to know *how* to do XP
I read this book before I read Extreme Programming explained by Kent Beck and found it very helpful, with plenty of resources. Read more

Published on Jun 3 2002 by Umberto Nicoletti

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Content. Extremely poorly written
I found this book to be a good introduction to XP. I feel like I have a solid foundation from which to learn more about this software development approach. Read more

Published on May 20 2002