Practices of an Agile Developer

203 Pages·2006·3.67 MB·English

What readers are saying about
Practices of an Agile Developer
The “What It Feels Like” sections are just gold—it’s one thing to tell
someone to do this; it’s quite another to put it into practice and know
you’re doing it right.
Nathaniel T. Schutta
Coauthor, Foundations ofAjax
The book is what I’ve come to expect fromthe Pragmatic Bookshelf:
short, easy to read, to the point, deep, insightful and useful. It should
be a valuable resource for people wanting to do “agile.”
Forrest Chang
SoftwareLead
When I started reading Practices ofan Agile Developer, I kept thinking,
“Wow, a lot of developers need this book.” It did not take long to real-
ize that I needed this book. I highly recommend it to developers of all
experience levels.
Guerry A. Semones
Senior Software Engineer, Appistry
Practices ofan Agile Developer uses common sense and experience to
illustratewhy you should consider adopting agile practices on your
projects. This is precisely the kind of real-world, experiential informa-
tion that is most difficult to glean from a book.
Matthew Johnson
Principal SoftwareEngineer
I was familiar with some of the practices mentioned since I own other
books from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, but this book brings a lot of
those ideas together and presents them in a clear, concise, organized
format. I would highly recommend this book to a new developer or to
a development team that wanted to get “agile.”
Scott Splavec
Senior Software Engineer
With agile practices spreading across the industry, there is a growing
need to understand what it really means to be “agile.” This book is a
concise and practical guide to becoming just that.
Marty Haught
SoftwareEngineer/Architect,Razorstream
Maybe you have heard before about agile methodologies and have
been asking yourself, what thingscan I do to improve my work each
day? My answer would be to read this book and let the angels inside
whisper in your ears the best personal practices you can embrace.
David Lázaro Saz
SoftwareDeveloper
This is a remarkably comprehensive yet targetedand concise overview
of the core practices of agility. What I like best about this book is that
it doesn’t promote a specific agile methodology but rather ties together
the practices common to each methodology into a coherent whole.
This is required reading for anyone hungering for a faster, more reli-
able way to develop wickedly good software.
Matthew Bass
SoftwareConsultant
The perfect sequel to The Pragmatic Programmer!
Bil Kleb
Research Scientist, NASA

Practices of an Agile Developer
Working in the Real World
Venkat Subramaniam
Andy Hunt
The Pragmatic Bookshelf
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“Learn thoroughly what you learn;
let your conduct be worthy of what is learnt.”
Verse 391 from Thirukural, Collection of 1330 noble couplets
Thiruvalluvar, poet and philosopher, 31 B.C.