Extreme Programming Pocket Guide Review

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Book:		Extreme Programming Pocket Guide
Subject:		Extreme Programming Pocket Guide Review
Date:		2004-04-01 16:57:29
From:		Larry Gray

Rating: This book superbly condences practices that could have a positive effect on any methodology that a programmer currently has in use. I have read it twice and found it hard to find lines to highlight because I seemed to want to highlight all of them. If you are looking for a good methodology that will help your open source projects(or otherwise), this is it. I code open source and I use sourceforge with cvs for a repository. Most of what is in this book I feel can be applied in some way. While its difficult to implement the war room and pair coding, this can be emulated. WWW and possibly IRC can be the war room. Pair coding can be one guy writing, the other reviewing. But I found all other aspects of XP to be most helpful, especially in the adopting of new priciples, practices, methods, standards and in the reorganization of my projects. Among that, XP Style, Artifacts and one very useful Metric for tracking your ability to estimate task time. Great book, will improve your work.