The Practical Guide to EXtreme Programming (Coad) |
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David Astels, Granville Miller, Miroslav Novak
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0130674826
Pub: Prentice Hall
Pub date: 2002-02-19
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 665927
Reader Reviews:
Does as it says on the tin! (0/0 people found this helpful)
An extremely practical and pragmatic guide to deciding about and implementing XP.
A practical guide on XP (2/4 people found this helpful)
1)Pet Hate: I hate publishers that bind books that make it impossible to read towards the middle of the book. I cannot understand why a publisher can bind a book like this and make it VERY difficult to keep the book open at any point through the book! (The book looses a star for this!)
2) The Book (Content): The book makes a lot of sense, what I mean by this is not only the content but the way it was written. It takes the XP principles and in an almost essay type style presents the reader with the processes followed. This makes it a lot easier to understand rather than having the type of bullet point texts which one cannot remember anyway.
My personal views on XP programming is probably a biased one and not fit for this review, what I can add is that I do agree with 90% of what happens in XP, but some of it I cannot agree with due to practical experience. Even so I think this book will compliment any software engineer, project manager and future customers (of software) reading library.
Some will observe that old ideas never die; may I suggest the following reading to compliment your library?
- Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed.
Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
-The Mythical Man-month
Frederick P. Brooks (1995)
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