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Dec 17, 2011
Jason
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TL;DR: It's a quick read, suitable for people new to agile. Otherwise, go buy Agile Estimating and Planning instead.
This is a very lightweight and quick to read book, despite its length; I read it in a few hours on a flight, and I'm not a very fast reader at all.
Some people will not enjoy the light hearted and humorous style of the book. I didn't mind it - the style and silly diagrams certainly made it easier to get through than something like Agile Estimating and Planning More...
This is a very lightweight and quick to read book, despite its length; I read it in a few hours on a flight, and I'm not a very fast reader at all.
Some people will not enjoy the light hearted and humorous style of the book. I didn't mind it - the style and silly diagrams certainly made it easier to get through than something like Agile Estimating and Planning More...
Aug 19, 2011
Ronald
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I enjoyed this book and found that it had useful information. I am not Scrum certified and haven't picked up an XP book in years and enjoyed reading about the current state of the Agile world. The book feels authentic because the author lets you know throughout the book that the goal is to write great software that is useful to your customers and there is no one way to do that -- you have to be open to ideas and give them a whirl on your project. I'll have to revisit the chapter on estimation
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Aug 26, 2011
Melvin
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This book is very straightforward and contains good advices to new and experienced agilists. It follows a pragmatic style and does a good job putting agile principles and practices into context using a dialog between a student and a samurai master.
A good tool I got from this book is the "Inception Deck": a powerful expectation-setting tool containing 10 essential questions that should be asked at the beginning of any software project. It improves a lacking area of most ag More...
A good tool I got from this book is the "Inception Deck": a powerful expectation-setting tool containing 10 essential questions that should be asked at the beginning of any software project. It improves a lacking area of most ag More...
Feb 06, 2012
Youssef
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A brief practical coverage of the basics of agile software project management and agile software engineering. It is not written as an academic reference it just tells you how to get the job done in simple words; not surprising of a book in a series called pragmatic! There are three parts the first is about kickstarting an agile project the second is about managing an agile project and third is about actual agile development. The book follows a mixture between the SCRUM and Extreme Programming fl
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Jan 22, 2012
Larry
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I've been leading an agile software team for a number of years, so roughly half of this book was review rather than new information. It would make a great introduction to the practices of agile to someone who was new to the concepts, however.
The first half of the book does contain some great ideas around the initiation of projects, and some useful tools for getting everyone on the same page(which has been an issue on a number of projects I've lead). There is also some great explanatio More...
The first half of the book does contain some great ideas around the initiation of projects, and some useful tools for getting everyone on the same page(which has been an issue on a number of projects I've lead). There is also some great explanatio More...
Sep 29, 2011
Cade
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A good intro to Agile philosophy and techniques, but the specifics are pretty basic if you're already familiar with the material. The one thing I really liked about this book compared to other Agile books was how dogma-free it was. He doesn't get too attached to specific ideologies such as XP, Scrum, or Kanban. Instead, he adopts a much more pragmatic approach which continuously points to the general principles of the Agile Manifesto. In short, take the best of what's out there, tweak it to work
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Aug 06, 2011
Daniel
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This book made me simultaneously dissatisfied and hopeful for my job. If we actually did this stuff, it would be great.
The individual practices that can be adopted by a single developer or developer team (unit testing, continuous integration, refactoring, test-driven development) are valuable in themselves, but the real gold here is the non-technical practices, revolving around how you manage your technical team's interactions with the business/customer.
The individual practices that can be adopted by a single developer or developer team (unit testing, continuous integration, refactoring, test-driven development) are valuable in themselves, but the real gold here is the non-technical practices, revolving around how you manage your technical team's interactions with the business/customer.
Jul 12, 2011
Elisa Guerrero
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Different and straightforward approach to delivering better software, especially the larger interactive projects. Helpful links and stories of previous projects to help set examples. Overall, it was refreshing to view different tactics and techniques for the development process.
Mar 03, 2011
Tim
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This a pretty good book on Agile Software Development, because it clearly emphasizes the values and approach over mere mechanics. Highly recommended on its own, and as a companion to Agile In A Flash.
Dec 19, 2011
Breccan
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A decent agile book. Although more description of methods and lacking the case studies that I really value in books like this. Slightly too opinionated at times as well.
Jun 12, 2011
Drom296
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Good general intro to the principles of Agile. Be flexible when delving into specific types of agile methodologies (i.e. scrum, xp, kanban, etc).
May 18, 2011
Richard
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Excellent book. Explains the facets of Agile extremely well without preaching or being repetitive. The style is somewhat similar to Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby with the diagrams, comics and sessions with Master Sensei. I found it to be a highly effective way of holding my attention throughout the book and reviewing what was discussed in each chapter. It contains some great summaries and reference material too.
I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn about Agile. More...
I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn about Agile. More...
Oct 05, 2011
Pascal
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Really liked this book's ideas. The Inception deck and project planning gave me allot of good ideas
Dec 21, 2011
Mauricio
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I really like all the Inception Deck stuff... the rest is not bad, but it's the same as other agile books...
Feb 28, 2011
Jan
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Dla tych co chcą zacząć z Agile, albo zaczęli... ale czują, że coś jest nie tak i trzeba by uporządkować wiedzę. Lekka, przystępna i bardzo dobra pozycja.
Oct 14, 2010
Tihomir
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That book shows me a lot of good agile principles and tools. I like most of them and I will try to use and integrate them.
Oct 02, 2011
Jorge Roldán
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A very good inmersion to agility with simple and effective examples. It has introduced me to concepts like agile inception and the use of the burndown and burnup charts, among others. And very nice to read!
Oct 02, 2011
Wes
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Great book for getting the gist of agile and convincing you to use better development processes. But overall your time would be better spent actually using an agile method and reading about good development processes from a book like The Pragmatic Programmer.
Jun 24, 2011
Now that I'm working in a development team that actually uses Agile, it's time to learn the ins and outs of the process.
Apr 16, 2011
Sean
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Very good overview of Agile Software Development, with practical helps - especially the "Starter Deck" concept.
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