Extreme Programming Explained

¿In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years¿ worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of improvement with XP, you must read this book.¿

¿ Francesco Cirillo, Chief Executive Officer, XPLabs S.R.L.

¿The first edition of this book told us what XP was¿it changed the way many of us think about software development. This second edition takes it farther and gives us a lot more of the ¿why¿ of XP, the motivations and the principles behind the practices. This is great stuff. Armed with the ¿what¿ and the ¿why,¿ we can now all set out to confidently work on the ¿how¿: how to run our projects better, and how to get agile techniques adopted in our organizations.¿

¿ Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers LLC

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