Planning Extreme Programming - Beck Kent

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Résumé :
The hallmarks of Extreme Programming - constant integration and automated testing, frequent small releases that incorporate continual customer feedback, and a teamwork approach-make it an exceptionally flexible and effective approach to software development. Once considered radical, Extreme Programming (XP) is rapidly becoming recognized as an approach particularly well-suited to small teams facing vague or rapidly changing requirements - that is, the majority of projects in today's fast-paced software development world. Within this context of flexibility and rapid-fire changes, planning is critical . without it, software projects can quickly fall apart. Written by acknowledged XP authorities Kent Beck and Martin Fowler, Planning Extreme Programming presents the approaches, methods, discipline, and advice you need to plan and track a successful Extreme Programming project. The key XP philosophy: Planning is not a one-time event, but a constant process of reevaluation and course- correction throughout the life cycle of the project. You will learn how planning is essential to controlling workload, reducing programmer stress, increasing productivity, and keeping projects on track. Planning Extreme Programming also focuses on the importance of estimating the cost and time for each user story (requirement), determining its priority, and planning software releases accordingly. In addition, this book alerts you to the red flags that signal serious problems : customers who won't make decisions, growing defect reports, failing daily builds, and more. An entire chapter is devoted to war stories from the trenches that illustrate the real-world problems many programmers encounter and the solutions they've devised.

Biographie:
Kent Beck is the founding director of Three Rivers Institute, researching and applying lessons on getting the greatest value out of software development. He helped pioneer CRC cards, the HotDraw drawing editor framework, the xUnit unit testing framework, the rediscovery of test-first programming, and patterns for software development. He is the author of author of Extreme Programming Explained (a Jolt Productivity Award winner), The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk : A Sorted Collection. Martin Flower is the Chief Scientist of ThoughtWorks, an Internet system integrator and consulting organization. He has consulted on building object-oriented business systems for more than a decade. He is a leading authority on patterns, the UML, refactoring, and lightweight development processes. He's a frequent speaker and writer on these topics, and is the author of Analysis Patterns, Refactoring, and the award-winning UML Distilled.

Sommaire:
["Why Plan ? Fear","Driving Software","Balancing Power","Overviews","Too Much to Do","Four Variables","Yesterday's Weather","Scoping a Project","Release Planning","Writing Stories","Estimation","Ordering the Stories","Release Planning Events","The First Plan","Release Planning Variations","Iteration Planning","Iteration Planning Meeting","Tracking an Iteration","Stand-up Meetings","Visible Graphs","Dealing with Bugs","Changes to the Team","Tools","Business Contracts","Red Flags","Your Own Process"]