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Welcome to the Agile Software Development Web site
This site is a repository for resources concerning agile software development approaches (Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Test Driven Development (TDD), Feature Driven Development (FDD), DSDM, Lean Software) and practices (refactoring, pair programming, continuous integration, user stories, iterative development). The content consists of articles, news, press releases, quotations, books reviews and links to articles, Web sites, tools, blogs, conferences and other elements concerning agile development approaches. Feel free to contribute with your own articles, links or press releases. The administrator keeps the right to delete or edit all submitted content.
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  • [2010/9/7] Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn
    Now that Agile has established itself as the dominant new trend in software development, the number of books that deal with this topic is increasing every day. Besides the fact that Mike Cohn is a recognized expert in the area of agile project management, why should you buy his book rather any other book published on the same topic? After readi...
  • [2010/6/24] Lean Agile Software Development
    The goal of this book is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development. To achieve this objective, the authors draw on their own experience in Agile consulting.
  • [2010/6/7] Jazoon Reports: Total Cost of Ownership and Return on Investment by Ken Schwaber
    At the recent Jazoon conference in Zurich, Ken Schwaber talked about the lack of technical practices in Scrum projects that lead to technical debt. However, the end of the talk made me thinks that this topic could have been chosen only to promote its Scrum.org certification courses.
  • [2010/5/19] The Economics of Iterative Software Development
    When you start reading this book, you will quickly understand that the authors are affiliated with IBM. This is nothing wrong per se, but this seems to influence too much the vision that the book proposes, ignoring approaches proposed by others. Including “iterative” in the title seems here to be only a marketing trick used to make ...
  • [2010/3/9] Leading Lean Software Development – Results are not the Point
    What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. The Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read. It might be however easier to have the right flow when you are a...
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