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By Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres

“In this moment variation of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and provides 5 years’ worthy of reviews, progress, and alter revolving round XP. while you are heavily drawn to figuring out the way you and your workforce can begin down the trail of development with XP, you need to learn this book.”

Francesco Cirillo, leader government Officer, XPLabs S.R.L.

“The first variation of this booklet informed us what XP was—it replaced the way in which many folks take into consideration software program improvement. This moment variation takes it farther and offers us much more of the ‘why’ of XP, the motivations and the foundations at the back of the practices. this can be nice stuff. Armed with the ‘what’ and the ‘why,’ we will be able to now ready out to hopefully paintings at the ‘how’: tips to run our initiatives greater, and the way to get agile options followed in our organizations.”

Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers LLC

“This e-book is dynamite! It used to be progressive whilst it first seemed many years in the past, and this new version is both profound. in the event you insist on cookbook checklists, there’s a good bankruptcy on ‘primary practices,’ yet i beg you to start through really considering the which means of the outlet sentence within the first bankruptcy of Kent Beck’s ebook: ‘XP is ready social change.’ you need to do no matter what it takes to make sure that each IT expert and each IT manager—all the best way as much as the CIO—has a duplicate of Extreme Programming Explained on his or her desk.”

Ed Yourdon, writer and advisor

“XP is a robust set of ideas for simplifying the method of software program layout, improvement, and checking out. it truly is approximately minimalism and incrementalism, that are specifically valuable rules while tackling advanced difficulties that require a stability of creativity and discipline.”

Michael A. Cusumano, Professor, MIT Sloan college of administration, and writer of The enterprise of Software

Extreme Programming Explained is the paintings of a skilled and passionate craftsman. Kent Beck has introduced jointly a compelling number of principles approximately programming and administration that merits your complete consciousness. My merely pork is that our occupation has gotten to some degree the place such common sense principles are categorized ‘extreme.’...”

Lou Mazzucchelli, Fellow, Cutter enterprise know-how Council

“If your company is prepared for a metamorphosis within the manner it develops software program, there’s the sluggish incremental process, solving issues one after the other, or the quick song, leaping toes first into severe Programming. don't be anxious via the identify, it's not that severe in any respect. it's regularly strong outdated recipes and customary experience, well built-in jointly, eliminating all of the fats that has collected over the years.”

Philippe Kruchten, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia

“Sometimes revolutionaries get left in the back of because the move they begun takes on a lifetime of its personal. during this booklet, Kent Beck indicates that he is still prior to the curve, prime XP to its subsequent point. Incorporating 5 years of suggestions, this booklet takes a clean examine what it takes to strengthen higher software program in much less time and for much less cash. There are not any silver bullets the following, only a set of useful ideas that, whilst used correctly, may end up in dramatic advancements in software program improvement productivity.”

Mary Poppendieck, writer of Lean software program improvement: An Agile Toolkit

“Kent Beck has revised his vintage e-book in accordance with 5 extra years of utilizing and instructing XP. He exhibits how the trail to XP is either effortless and tough: it may be began with fewer practices, and but it demanding situations groups to move farther than ever.”

William Wake, self reliant advisor

“With new insights, knowledge from adventure, and clearer motives of the paintings of maximum Programming, this variation of Beck’s vintage can help many detect the dream of remarkable software program development.”

Joshua Kerievsky, writer of Refactoring to Patterns and Founder, business common sense, Inc.

“XP has replaced the best way our thinks approximately software program improvement. Its awesome simplicity, concentrated execution, and insistence on fact-based making plans over hypothesis have set a brand new normal for software program delivery.”

David Trowbridge, Architect, Microsoft Corporation

Accountability. Transparency. accountability. those usually are not phrases which are usually utilized to software program improvement.

In this thoroughly revised advent to severe Programming (XP), Kent Beck describes find out how to increase your software program improvement by means of integrating those hugely fascinating recommendations into your day-by-day improvement process.

The first version of Extreme Programming Explained is a vintage. It gained awards for its then-radical principles for making improvements to small-team improvement, akin to having builders write computerized exams for his or her personal code and having the entire workforce plan weekly. a lot has replaced in 5 years. This thoroughly rewritten moment version expands the scope of XP to groups of any measurement by means of suggesting a application of constant development established on:

  • Five center values in keeping with excellence in software program development
  • Eleven ideas for placing these values into action
  • Thirteen basic and 11 corollary practices that will help you push improvement previous its present company and technical limitations

Whether you will have a small staff that's already heavily aligned together with your buyers or a wide group in a big or multinational association, you'll find in those pages a wealth of rules to problem, encourage, and inspire you and your staff participants to considerably enhance your software program improvement.

You will realize how to:

  • Involve the entire team—XP style
  • Increase technical collaboration via pair programming and non-stop integration
  • Reduce defects via developer testing
  • Align enterprise and technical judgements via weekly and quarterly planning
  • Improve teamwork via developing an informative, shared workspace

You also will locate many different concrete principles for development, all in keeping with a philosophy that emphasizes concurrently expanding the humanity and effectiveness of software program development.

Every workforce can enhance. each workforce can commence bettering this day. development is possible—beyond what we will be able to at the moment think. Extreme Programming defined, moment Edition, deals rules to gasoline your development for years to come.

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Com/series/XP severe Programming defined moment version embody switch Kent Beck with Cynthia Andres Boston the writer and writer have taken care within the practise of this booklet, yet make no expressed or implied guaranty of any sort and think no accountability for blunders or omissions. No legal responsibility is believed for incidental or consequential damages in reference to or bobbing up out of using the knowledge or courses contained herein. writer: John Wait Editor in leader: Don O'Hagan Acquisitions Editor: Paul Petralia handling Editor: John Fuller undertaking Editors: Julie Nahil and Kim Arney Mulcahy Compositor: Kim Arney Mulcahy production patron: Carol Melville The writer bargains first-class reductions in this ebook whilst ordered in volume for bulk purchases or distinctive revenues, that may comprise digital models and/or customized covers and content material specific on your enterprise, education objectives, advertising concentration, and branding pursuits. for additional information, please touch: U. S. company and executive revenues (800) 382-3419 corpsales@pearsontechgroup. com For revenues open air the U. S. , please touch: foreign revenues international@pearsoned. com stopover at us on the net: www. awprofessional. com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication facts Beck, Kent. severe programming defined: include switch / Kent Beck with Cynthia Andres. — 2d ed. p. cm. comprises bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-321-27865-8 (alk. paper) 1. laptop software—Development. 2. severe programming. I. identify. QA76. seventy six. D47B434 2004 005. 1—dc22 2004057463 textual content copyright © 2005 Pearson schooling, Inc. inside of conceal paintings copyright © 2004 through Kent Beck All rights reserved. published within the u . s .. This ebook is secure through copyright, and permission needs to be got from the writer ahead of any prohibited copy, garage in a retrieval approach, or transmission in any shape or in any respect, digital, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. for info relating to permissions, write to: Pearson schooling, Inc. Rights and Contracts division One Lake highway top Saddle River, NJ 07458 the various designations utilized by brands and dealers to tell apart their items are claimed as emblems. the place these designations look during this e-book and we have been conscious of a hallmark declare, the designations were published in preliminary caps or all caps. ISBN 0-321-27865-8 textual content published within the usa on recycled paper at Courier in Stoughton, Massachusetts. First printing, November 2004 commitment To Cindee with no you, this ebook might nonetheless be approximately programmers hiding in a nook. with no you, i might nonetheless be a kind of programmers. word To Programmers Even programmers could be entire humans within the genuine global. XP is a chance to check your self, to be your self, to achieve that perhaps you have been nice all alongside and simply placing with the incorrect crowd. Contents Foreword to the second one variation Foreword to the 1st variation Preface bankruptcy 1 what's XP?

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