have spoken and corresponded with a lot of people about Extreme Programming (XP). I've encouraged them to read Extreme Programming Explained - Embrace Change and the other XP books. I've shown them some products produced using XP techniques. But somehow it's always been really hard to explain. Now I know what was missing. I needed this book.
It's not a big book, but it powerfully expresses how XP works and, more importantly, what it feels like. The authors kept detailed notes when they first implemented Extreme Programming with a fairly simple web/Java/database project, and they give a blow-by-blow account of it. This is not an idealised case study; they made plenty of mistakes, but they show how the team learned from them. All the
Java code for the project is shown as it is refactored. All the user story
cards and task/time tracking are shown as the project progresses.
If you have read or heard about XP but want to know what it's really like, this is the book. It's not much of a reference, but it's a terrific introduction.
Frank Carver - sheriff, July 2001)
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