books about: agile     books:       User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)40 reviews Mike Cohn Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004 Well-written, practical advice This book is one of the better collections of how-to's and practical applications I've read on Agile user stories. It mixes in just enough of the theory to understand the importance and distinctions of epics, stories, tasks, and spikes without overly focusing on them. Then, it uses real-world examples in common language to walk you through some of the messier implementations of Agile, and ...             The Art of Agile Development13 reviews James Shore, Shane Warden O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 An extremely practical guide to extreme programming This book has three parts in it - introduction to agility, guide to extreme programming and afterthoughts. You may want to read this book if you want to set up XP in your team or participate in it. It is mostly beneficial for the developers or project managers to read it. The first part (Getting Started) is about 40 pages long and just puts you on the right track by discussing what agility ...             Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)35 reviews Ken Schwaber Microsoft Press, 2004 A Handbook with Case Studies There's plenty of books on SCRUM - and finding the right one is a tough job. This book is what you're looking for if you want a basic introduction and examples of applications - because there's plenty of case studies. SCRUM techniques are described and then discussed by resort to case studies, helping the lessons become more applicable to you. The end result is a good SCRUM Manual for a ...             Agile Software Development with Scrum (Series in Agile Software Development)39 reviews Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle Prentice Hall, 2001 The SCRUM bible This is the one book you buy everyone on your team and tell them to read as the first step to implementing scrum. It's well written, clear, and consise. Most people only need to read chapters 2-4, 5-7 are on control theory, etc that is interesting but not required. This is good stuff 'straight from the horses mouth'.             Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great18 reviews Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, ... Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006 Must-read for any scrum master This is a really useful book. Most practical. Being into scrum (sort of) for 3 months, we've tried to change our retrospective meeting agenda applying methods from this book. We did this just once as yet, and applied only a single combination of methods from virtually countless variants possible. The result is great: retrospective meetings became more meaningful and fun. Every scrum master ...             Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success6 reviews Amr Elssamadisy Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008 Solid advice. No hype! There are many things I like about this book, not the least of which is that it is true to the "spirit" of patterns and agile -- it does not promise easy answers or quick fixes but offers down-to-earth advice based on experience. The patterns do a good job of capturing that experience but the way the patterns are written, with "threads" of stories throughout is not only convincing but enjoyable ...             Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (Agile Software Development Series)20 reviews Jim Highsmith Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004 Takes human behavior into account As someone who has managed large custom software projects and programs for 20 years, I was concerned that applying Agile to project management would simply mean burndown charts and the like. What I found in Highsmith's book is a perceptive understanding of how people think, feel and actually work on projects. Approaches that take human behavior into account, in my experience, are far more ...             Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series)44 reviews Mike Cohn Prentice Hall PTR, 2005 Great book...Helped me on the PM concepts of Agile. I enjoyed this book...I found it helped with the project management aspects of Agile while keeping grounded in common sense.             Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide (Agile Software Development Series)46 reviews Craig Larman Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Excellent survey of iterative and incremental development (IID) methodologies This work by Larman shares some commonalities with Balancing Agility and Discipline, a work by Boehm and Turner (see my review for that book) in which a wide range of methodologies are compared side-by-side to determine the best fit for teams. However, rather than serving as a guide to determine best fit from a wide assortment of methodologies, Larman's work is limited to a discussion of Scrum, ...             Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)5 reviews Robert C. Martin Prentice Hall PTR, 2008 A must-buy for object-oriented developers When most people hear the term "bad writing" they understand the term: Confusing, inconsistent, rambling, big words used incorrectly. In fact, we have lots and lots of educational programs designed to teach grammar, composition, journalism, and fiction. Master's Degrees in the subject, even. But for software development we seemed obsessed with "architecture" (whatever that means), process ...             Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays32 reviews Steve Martin Grove Press, 1997 Worth it for Picasso I think in reality this probably deserves 4 stars, but I love "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" too much to rate it anything below 5. It's a great read and a lot of fun to act. It's funny on so many levels - everything from wacky and silly to crude to smart to dry humor down to the very subtle (like having an "e-shaped pie."... it's a math joke (pi)). The ideas in it are great, and I especially ...             Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Agile Software Development Series)36 reviews Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 The Best Introduction I've Read It's pretty much all been said by previous reviewers but this one is worth another accolade. As a CIO with over 20 years in software engineering, I've just about read it all, seen it all, tried it all. As a result I'm a big believer in Lean/Agile, and this is the best introduction I've come across. It's a nice, practical mix of principles and practices and touches on all the right themes. A ...             Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse (Developer's Library)45 reviews Anil Hemrajani Sams, 2006 Nice idea...but simplistic and patchy I like the concept of this book. Combining a whole bunch of ideas that these days are well proven and likely to result in well written software and productivity gains. Agile, Java, Eclipse, Hibernate, Spring. All stuff that I am working with right now. Seems the perfect book to fill in the gaps in my current knowledge. Unfortunately, though the author may be a fine developer, he is not a ...             Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition105 reviews David Hansson, Leon Breedt, ... Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006 Great Book - But Wait to Buy This is THE book for Rails. Top notch...only WAIT to buy it. As others have said, there is a new edition coming out soon that covers Rails 2.0. Of course...if you can't wait, go to the publisher's web page. They are selling copies of this edition for 50% off, while supplies last. But, some of the code in this book will not work anymore in Rails 2.0. Still, a great book and well worth it even for ...             Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Alan Apt Series)33 reviews Robert C. Martin Prentice Hall, 2002 Very deserving in it's own right. After reading this text, I feel it deserves the attention of other great texts such as Design patterns and Refactoring, even though much of it's content expounds upon the ideas of these two classics. It's my opinion that this text has two strong points: it explains the ideas and details of agile development very clearly, and it does an excellent job of explaining the most popular patterns ...             Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Programmers)29 reviews Venkat Subramaniam, Andy Hunt Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006 Beyond good and evil The book makes one mistake on its own cover. The apparently "bad" angel is sitting on the person's right shoulder, while the "good" angel, on his left. If this book wants to be a hundred percent correct, I suggest for the locations of the two angels to be swapped. Everyone in the world knows that the right hand is the "good" hand. There is no reason for the bad angel to sit on the person's right ...             The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility (Agile Software Development Series)5 reviews Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008 Excellent advice for project managers making the change to agile This excellent book is targeted directly at Project Management Professionals (PMPs) but will be extremely beneficial to any project manager who is interested in agile development. After three short chapters that introduce the general principles and activities of an agile software development project, the authors attack the meat of their subject. Each of the nine chapters of part two ...             Agile Portfolio Management2 reviews Jochen Krebs Microsoft Press, 2008 A great C-Level intro to Agile As an IT leader in a large financial services firm I appreciated Mr. Krebs' bringing an introduction to Agile to someone with little or no background on the subject. The book is very approachable and is built for senior managers with very little time (or need) to invest in detailed understanding of Agile. This book has given me the basis I need to understand where I need to take my ...             Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series)17 reviews Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin Prentice Hall PTR, 2006 Most C# developers fail on OO Design/patterns - fix it with this book Other reviewers are predictable in when they say 'this is not C# or agile' what they are really saying is 'I do not want to learn OO design'. Agile teams must have OO design mastery or they tend to iterate to release 1 with legacy code. After that it is a disaster to change or make long-lived. If you actually believe that agile lets you neglect OO design expertise that myth is put to bed ...             Agile Project Management: How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements2 reviews Gary Chin AMACOM, 2004 Worth a read. I found this to be a very empowering book as it really bridges the gap between project management theory (as described in numerous other books) and what actually happens in the real world. By wrapping the human, organizational, and business context around common PM concepts, Chin has helped clarified how to apply these concepts for effective results in fast paced projects. This is an easy ...              search for books addison-wesley, adoption, changing, craftsmanship, creating, developer, development, estimating, handbook, hibernate, innovative, iterative, management, microsoft, organizational, patterns, picasso, planning, portfolio, practices, pragmatic, principles, products, professional, programmers, requirements, retrospectives, signature, software, working books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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