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| The Art of Agile Development | 
 enlarge | Authors: James Shore, Shane Warden
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: £24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 6909
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 438
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0596527675
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1
EAN: 9780596527679
ASIN: 0596527675
Publication Date: October 26, 2007
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Great springboard into Agile and XP. April 2, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
After reading a couple of books on Agile, The Art of Agile Development does the best job of presenting all the ideas and concepts needed to start putting it all into practice. Previously I've been left with questions about how to go about implementing certain ideas or mis-understood key concepts, I felt able enough to start putting a lot of Agile and XP concepts into practice straight away.
The material itself is very digestable and written in a great down to earth manner. Rather then being a case of teacher lecturing to their student, it felt a lot like someone who's been there and gone through all the pains before hand, had come round to visit one afternoon to tell you what they had learnt and what they believe works best.
I've recommended this book to nearly all my development friends and work colleagues/bosses in different departments and even offered to buy the skeptical one their own copy.
A warts and all account of Agile development January 11, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I received this book then skimmed the authors biographies to see if they are web 2.0 hippies. My experience with the agile method is that is used to excuse sloppy work practises or when a developer wants to avoid boring stuff like documentation, requirements gathering, project planning or testing. I rank it along side similar claims such as graphic designers cannot arrive at work on-time and sober because artistic inspiration only strikes early in the morning in night clubs while talking to beautiful people. In short I don't understand it and it is what the cool people do.
My objectives of reading this book were to
Understand what agile Development really is.
Assess whether adopting agile methods will be of benefit to our team.
This book helped me partially achieve both of them quite easily so I recommend it.
My major reservation is that I'd appreciate more support for the book via a web site. James Shore has a good site but http://jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/
is the only page I could find about the book.
There was a checklist to determine how Agile are the work processes are that I use at the moment. I'd like this to be provided on a website and to be interactive.
The provision of more code examples and templates would be also useful.
The art of agile development does not evangelise or attempt to hard sell Agile. The case studies given seem contrived but are used by the authors give a warts and all account of Agile development. On finishing reading this book I feel I am much more aware of the potential benefits and risks of this approach but not confident it's the right way to go.
This book plays the role of an honest consultant rather then a salesman. James Shore and Shane Warden are skilful writers and have covered a technical subject with elan. If you are anyway involved in software production and considering Agile, then buy it.
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