An excellent book for Agile art

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Book:		The Art of Agile Development
Subject:		An excellent book for Agile art
Date:		2009-05-20 10:36:04
From:		Read Sense

Rating: As a new comer learning what Agile Development is about, I found this book fabulous and easy to read. Leading as if the reader were a new hirer to a development group practicing Agile, it draws how the group’s daily life might be in Part I. Then, the practices are addressed in details in Part II. Part III summarizes Agile values and principles into five themes explained with in practice advises and beyond practices stories from experience. The book is organized well with in depth discussion and lots of references on subjects such as Iteration, Use Story, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Technical Debt and etc. A thoughtfully written book that reveals and builds step by step the values of Agility with practicability shared. As a software developer, the explanation of “software inventory” really shakes me awake. It appears that this book is written from a view of a product manager who knows a lot about the roles each player contributes to a successful product development. “Do this,” said in Part I. “Here is what we are trying to achieve and why,” said in Part II. And, “These are the values of Agile and Part I and Part II are not hard wired rules”, emphasized in Part III which is written in a way that it could be used to argue for the support from the top management.