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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

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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 F

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Kent Beck consistently challenges software engineering dogma, promoting ideas like patterns, test-driven development, and Extreme Programming. Currently affiliated with Three Rivers Institute and Agitar Software, he is the author of many Addison-Wesley titles.

Cynthia Andres holds a B.S. in psychology with advanced work in organizational behavior, decision analysis, and women’s studies. She has worked with Kent on the social aspects of Extreme Programming since its inception. She is also affiliated with Three Rivers Institute.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0321278658
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley; 2nd edition (November 16, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780321278654
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321278654
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.35 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches

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Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

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Girija

A captivating read.

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024

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This book is more of a philosophical way of describing how to embrace change and adapt to the more collaborative and time sensitive approach to managing a project be it software or organization. Author provides very simple practical examples that elucidate complex concepts, and this approach not only simplifies intricate concepts but ensures reader can easily follow, connect and comprehend the subject matter. Authors could have provided some code samples along with theoretical and philosophical explanation other than that this book deserves 7 for 10 grading. Enjoyed reading the book and I would suggest this book as a must read for developers or anyone who wish to incorporate quality and embrace change in executing projects in non traditional way.

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noavarice

Actually answers some questions about Extreme Programming

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2021

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I found this book quite inspiring, let alone its value for concept explanation. I do not agree with some of the ideas, but this book doesn't try to sell you each and every practice, in my opinion, so it's ok

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Reenee

Bought this as a study aid for PMI-ACP Exam

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014

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I bought this book to help with my study for the PMI-ACP certification exam. Part of the recommendations suggests that you understand Extreme Programming inside and out and how it relates to SCRUM and LEAN. This is an excellent book written by Kent Beck, the person who brought Extreme Programming to the forefront of software development. It is easy to read and understand and covers the subject matter very well. Whether you are studying for this exam or whether your team is adopting Extreme Programming, this book is for you.

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Michael C. Gamble

I have been a programming hack for many years. ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2017

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I have been a programming hack for many years. This book along with a couple of others that I have read in the last six months or so have opened my eyes. I knew that basics were not my strong suit. I am entirely self-taught with desktop programming. I just knew there were things that didn't seem right. I always had close contact with my customers, knew from early VB experience that you could make a mess of code, that defects could bury a project. XP explained by one of the founders, maybe The Founder just lays it all out. Now still I am a single man shop, so really I am now starting practice on PXP, Personal Extreme Programming, but it will be the only way I practice from here on!

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Book is in good condition and meets my expectations. Reasonable price. Quick delivery. All around good value and good buying experience. Would buy from vendor again and recommend that others use this vendor as well.

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This book isn't too bad, it has a lot of obvious information (ie

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2016

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Required for an XP (Extreme Programming) class. The book was only used for the first three weeks of classes, so I didn't read it in too much depth. This book isn't too bad, it has a lot of obvious information (ie, treat coworkers with respect) and it doesn't offer too much in terms of insight. But despite those issues it's not a bad read, it does have some good information, just nothing ground breaking.

Do not get this book if you're looking for anything ground breaking or anything enlightening, if you're interested in agile development, this book may be worth it to read through however.

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nesdavid

A humanist approach to project management

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2012

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This is a beautiful book about how we can become better men and by doing so improve our working team and organization.

The practices described in this book are not for the faint of heart, they will take a lot of courage to start changing yourself and your team. The beauty of it, it's that you can start by one practice at a time and start improving yourself before start changing everyone around you.

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C. Okamuro

Nice historical reference, but not as relevant as the methodologies that XP spawned (see details)

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021

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I remember reading a copy of an earlier edition of the Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition (The XP Series) back in the early 2000s. At the time, the book seemed revolutionary amidst my professional work in the waterfall methodology. In my opinion, it was so groundbreaking because it was the first time I'd heard anyone try to manage the software development lifecycle as something other than just another generic project. While there are similarities in software design to other types of custom manufacturing, XP is much better attuned to what makes software design DIFFERENT.

So why three stars?

My company is in the process of a transition to a flavor of agile programming. It was decided that, in an effort to give everyone a common set of concepts and vocabulary, that this book be taught to our entire department. The issue, as I see it, is that as the grandfather of modern agile methodologies, XP is very important. However, as important as understanding how XP came to be is, agile has moved on to more developed/evolved methodologies.

This book does not get you to TDD, or advanced CI/CD. It does not get you to Scrum, LeSS, or Kanban. However, if you want this book as a historical guidepost of "how we got here", I think it's decent.

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Marcelo Torres Assis

Um dos melhores

Reviewed in Brazil on June 26, 2023

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Uma das melhores literaturas se você quer levar seu trabalho como engenheiro a outro nível é formar times de alta performance!

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Andrea, Jole, Giugiu e Lilli

Lettura davvero consigliata su uno dei principali framework agili

Reviewed in Italy on April 3, 2021

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Utile ed esauriente trattato sul Extreme Programming. La tesi principale proposta è che non ha senso cercare di fare previsioni che non possono basarsi su niente altro che l'incertezza.
Piuttosto, Kent Beck propone una metodologia che abbraccia i cambiamenti invece di combatterlo.

Gli aspetti principali della metodologia sono:

- pair programming che porta ad una maggiore qualità del codice scritto
- pianificazione flessibile: scegliendo giornalmente ciò che va fatto in base alle priorità del momento
- design for change - non trattare nessuna parte del progetto (comprese le specifiche) come immutabili, essere sempre pronti a modificarli quando necessario,
- il codice è la documentazione e quindi va scritto in modo che possa essere facilmente utilizzato come tali,
- unit test: gli unit test sono uno step essenziale per fornire codice funzionante

Si può essere d'accordo su tutto o su parte dei punti in elenco o altri aspetti del libro. È sicuramente importante prendere coscienza del problema di fondo, la pianificazione fondata sull'incertezza e provare a prendere ragionare, magari prendendo spunto proprio dalle linee guida di XP.

Libro stra-consigliato.

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Kindle Customer

XP delivery approach well explained

Reviewed in India on March 27, 2021

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Book no doubt is well written to explain Extreme Programming delivery approach. For XP rules you have to go through website though.

Lionhearted

XP is not so extreme after all

Reviewed in Canada on December 4, 2019

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Extreme Programming is not so extreme after all. It is the extremely imbalanced world that makes it extreme. Whenever you try to be good in the truly moral sense of the word, you can’t help being perceived as extreme.

Alexey Subbotin

Alle Praktiken von Extreme Programming

Reviewed in Germany on August 21, 2019

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