Extreme Programming in Practice - Softcover

Newkirk, James W.; Martin, Robert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201709376 ISBN 13: 9780201709377

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001

Synopsis

(Pearson Education) A candid look at the insight track of how an XP project works, representing all-access uncensored XP. Example is valued over explanation, using sample code and test examples to support the text. Offers insight into the trial and error, ebb and flow of a real XP project. Softcover.

About this title

About the Author

James Newkirk is a principal in a consulting firm named Object Mentor, based in Illinois. Object Mentor provides software leadership services to the global community. They use XP process improvement, OO design consulting, and the skills that come with experience to help companies get their projects done.

Robert C. Martin is a principal in a consulting firm named Object Mentor, based in Illinois. Object Mentor provides software leadership services to the global community. They use XP process improvement, OO design consulting, and the skills that come with experience to help companies get their projects done. 0201709376AB03182002

From the Back Cover

Extreme Programming is the most exciting revolution to hit the software engineering industry in the last decade. But what exactly is XP? And how do you XP? Simply put, XP is about playing to win. If you are serious about becoming an agile organization, decreasing your time to market, keeping your development team happy, and improving the overall quality of your software, then XP is for you.

Extreme Programming in Practice provides a candid, refreshing, insider¿s view of how an XP project works. The artifacts presented in this book are real, the user stories are real, and the anecdotes are real. The book represents all-access, uncensored XP. The authors have chosen example over explanation, so that you can personalize the tenets of XP and put them into practice on your next development project.

The book is supported with sample code and test examples. You can learn how to emphasize planning in your project; deliver multiple iterations of your project (each with increasing business value); gather customer feedback as you build; and test the integrity of your code without halting your development efforts. The authors also provide a handy summary of more than a dozen "lessons learned" in XP implementation.

Extreme Programming in Practice will help you separate the hype from reality and learn how to implement XP in your organization. Witness the thought process of an XP team unfold. Observe the mistakes that were made along the way, as well as their corrections. See the ebb and flow of a real development project. Finish the release. Play to win.

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From the Inside Flap

This book is a case study describing a Web-based software project developed using a development process known as Extreme Programming (XP). The project is real, driven by the needs of a real customer. The artifacts presented in this book are real. The code is real, the user stories are real, and the anecdotes are real. We videotaped all our meetings and development episodes so that we maintained an honest and objective chronicle of the events. We wanted our readers to have as true-to-life an experience as possible. At first we thought we might have to keep the scope of the project artificially small enough to fit into this book. However, it turned out that the size of the first XP release of the project was both useful to our customer and the ideal size for this book. So even the size of the release is real. Before this project, none of us had used XP in its entirety. So this book also chronicles the adoption of XP by a team that is relatively unfamiliar with it. Our goal in writing this book is to help demonstrate how a real XP project works. We have chosen to do this by example, rather than by explanation. The examples are real. They chronicle the thought processes of the team as it struggles with the concepts of XP. You will see us make mistakes and then correct them. You will see us have insights and then find them to be invalid. You will see the ebb and flow of a real development project. This book is written for developers, managers, customers, and anyone else involved in the development of software. We welcome any feedback and can be reached at the following e-mail addresses:

James Newkirk–jnewkirk@thoughtworks Robert C. Martin–rmartin@objectmentor

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0201709376
• ISBN 13: 9780201709377
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224