Author Archives: Bill Wake

XP/Agile Universe 2002: LNCS 2418, Don Wells and Laurie Williams. Springer-Verlag, 2002. Conference proceedings for the 2002 conference. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)

Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win, Ken Auer and Roy Miller. Addison-Wesley, 2002. While the description of XP echoes the other books in the series, this book has two particular strengths: it considers the issues of resistance to change, and it Continue reading Review – Extreme Programming Applied→

Extreme Programming Examined, Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi, editors. Addison-Wesley, 2001. Selected papers from the XP 2000 conference. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)

Extreme Programming Installed, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson. Addison-Wesley, 2000. A broad-ranging array of many topics important in XP. My favorite is the notion of “The Circle of Life”: the proper separation of business and technical concerns. (Reviewed Continue reading Review – Extreme Programming Installed→

Extreme Programming Explored, William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2001. My approach is to use concrete examples to illustrate general points. I’m particularly happy to share examples of test-first programming and refactoring, and the discussion of metaphors. Table of contents. (Summarized Nov., ’02)

Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Kent Beck. Addison-Wesley, 1999. The manifesto for XP. (Reviewed Nov., ’02) The second edition is now out; see an extended summary.