Essential Skills for the Agile Developer A Guide to Better Programming and Design

by Shalloway, Alan; Bain, Scott; Pugh, Ken; Kolsky, Amir

• ISBN13: 9780321543738
• ISBN10: 0321543734
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-19
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Summary

Agile has become today's dominant software development paradigm, but Agile methods remain difficult to measure and improve. Essential Skills for the Agile Developerfills this gap from the bottom up, teaching proven techniques for assessing and optimizing both individual and team Agile practices.   Written by four principals of Net Objectives ;one of the world's leading Agile training and consulting firms ;this book reflects unsurpassed experience helping organizations transition to Agile. It focuses on the specific actions and insights that can deliver the greatest design and programming improvements with the least investment.   The authors reveal key factors associated with successful Agile projects and offer practical ways to measure them. Through actual examples, they address principles, attitudes, habits, technical practices, and design considerations ;and above all, show how to bring all these together to deliver higher-value software. Using the authors' techniques, managers and teams can optimize the whole: the whole organization andthe whole product across its entire lifecycle.   Essential Skills for the Agile Developershows how to   Program by intention Separate use from construction Consider testability before writing code Avoid over- and under-design Succeed with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) Minimize complexity and rework Use encapsulation more effectively and systematically Know when and how to use inheritance Prepare for change more successfully Perform continuous integration more successfully Master powerful best practices for design and refactoring

Author Biography

Alan Shalloway, founder and CEO of Net Objectives, is a renowned thought leader, trainer, and coach in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum, and agile design. His books include Lean-Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley, 2009), Lean-Agile Pocket Guide For Scrum Teams (Lean-Agile Press, 2009), and both editions of Design Patterns Explained (Addison-Wesley, 2001 and 2004).

 

Scott Bain, senior consultant at Net Objectives, is a 35+-year veteran in software development, engineering, and design. He authored the Jolt award-winning book Emergent Design (Addison-Wesley, 2008).

 

Ken Pugh, a fellow consultant at Net Objectives, helps companies move to Lean-Agility through training and coaching. His books include Lean-Agile Acceptance Test Driven Development (Addison-Wesley, 2011) and the Jolt Award-winner Prefactoring (O’Reilly, 2005).

 

Amir Kolsky is a senior consultant, coach, and trainer for Net Objectives with more than 25 years of experience.

Table of Contents

Being a Lean-Agile Consultant

Introduction to This Field Guide

Overview of Lean-Agile Software Development

Stories from Lean-Agile Consulting

Lean-Agile Consulting

Getting the Organization Ready for Lean-Agile

The Lean-Agile Coaching Plan

Assessment

The Lean-Agile Environment

Implementing Lean-Agile Projects

Project Work: Define and Plan

Project Work: Staging

Project Work: Work Iterations

Project Work: Release and Project Closure

Expanding Lean-Agile

Expansion to the Enterprise

Task I: The Seller's Dashboard

Task J: Downloading Reports

Task K: Adding E-Commerce

Task L: Extending your Application to the Desktop with AIR

Advanced Topics

AMF for Rails: WebORB for Rails and RubyAMF

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