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Agile Patterns: The Technical Cluster

Posted by Amr Elssamadisy on Mar 23, 2007 11:00 AM

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Agile Techniques ,
Methodologies ,
Unit Testing ,
Agile in the Enterprise
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Patterns and Practices ,
Process Adoption ,
Value & Metrics ,
Business/IT Alignment ,
Introducing Agile ,
Continuous Integration ,
TDD


As more and more people move towards adoption of Agile practices, they are looking for guidance and advice on how to adopt Agile successfully. Unfortunately many of the questions they have such as: “Where do I start?”, “What specific practices should I adopt?”, “How can I adopt incrementally?” and “Where can I expect pitfalls?” are not adequately addressed.

This book answers these questions by guiding the reader in crafting their own adoption strategy focused on their business values and environment.  This strategy is then directly tied to patterns of agile practice adoption that describe how many teams have successfully (and unsuccessfully) adopted practices like test-first development, simple design, and others.

188 pages, 6" x 9", ISBN# 978-1-4303-1488-2

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Table of contents

Part 1: Business Value, Smells, and an Adoption Strategy

    Business Values
    Smells
    Adopting Agile Practices

Part 2: The Patterns

    Automated Developer Tests (Abstract Patter
    Test-Last Development
    Test-First Development
    Refactoring
    Continuous Integration
    Simple Design
    (Automated) Functional Tests
    Collective Code Ownership

Part 3: The Clusters

    Clusters of Practices
    Evolutionary Design
    Test Driven Development
    Test Driven Requirements

Conclusion

Appendices

    Pattern to Business Value Mappings
    Pattern to Smell Mappings
    Adoption Strategy Case Study
    Getting the Most from Agile Practice Patterns
    Reading a Pattern Effectively   

About the Author

Amr currently serves Valtech as a Principal Consultant where he helps Valtech’s clients build better software using the latest technologies and of course adopting and adapting Agile practices.    Amr is also an Agile news writer for InfoQ.com.  Ever since being introduced to eXtreme Programming in late 1999, he has been sold on Agile Development and, as a consultant, has been selling it to clients.  He has been working exclusively with agile practices and helping teams adopt and adapt practices to suit their environments and build better software. Amr has used his experience and gathered the expertise of many others from the Agile community in order to bring together their experiences in this book.

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