| Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition
by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, Andreas Schwarz
Average Customer Review:  based on 100 reviews.
Customer Review: This is classics! I started reading it just to know what is Rails. I ended reading with absolutely involved and loving it!
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| User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
by Mike Cohn
Average Customer Review:  based on 37 reviews.
Customer Review: I work for a consulting company that trains in both agile methods as well as more antiquated lean UP. I was looking for "the" book on user stories. If I wanted to recommend "the" book for use cases, it was "Writing Effective Use Cases" by Alistair Cockburn. I received this book on Tuesday and had finished reading it by Thursday. It ...
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| Agile Software Development with SCRUM (Series in Agile Software Development)
by Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
Average Customer Review: based on 35 reviews.
Customer Review: Helping the people who DO the work understand the value of simplicity. Take in context of the other Schwaber books, this book is intended to lead a developer/technologist down the path of evolving a lens of simplicity. Even greater value can be applied should one synthesize the data from Mike Cohn's two books, as well as, Weinberg a...
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| Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts
Average Customer Review: based on 136 reviews.
Customer Review: This book is required reading for anyone who is serious about software development. If you want to go from good to great then do yourself a favor and get this book.
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| Writing Effective Use Cases (The Agile Software Development Series)
by Alistair Cockburn
Average Customer Review: based on 45 reviews.
Customer Review: Alistair Cockburn has a gift for writing. His explanations are very easy to follow and the writing style makes it seem like you are reading novel. I tried a number of books on use cases and this is by far the best. It contains a number of different styles. I used this book as a basis for developing standards for the company I work f...
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| Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Agile Software Development)
by Robert L. Glass
Average Customer Review: based on 23 reviews.
Customer Review: For some reason, there are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about software development. Maybe this is the way it is for all fields, but that would be surprising. If it is just urban legends for outsiders, that makes sense and adds to the mysterious appeal. However, I would venture to say that most people in this field all have d...
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| Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide (The Agile Software Development Series)
by Craig Larman
Average Customer Review: based on 44 reviews.
Customer Review: The book is very informative and presents both previous (EVO, XP) and current (UP, Scrum) methodologies. I am a project manager and this book helped me understand enough of Agile methodologies to apply it in my work environment. Good detail about each method and how it provides benefit. Before attempting to deploy Scrum or RUP/UP, r...
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| The Art of Agile Development
by James Shore, Shane Warden
Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews.
Customer Review: We began using scrum and have had significant success with it alone. Doing additional research we've found that eXtreme Programming (XP) would complement our efforts and improve our development practices. I picked up this book and started reading it the first moment I had it in my hands, since then I've not been able to put it down....
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| Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
by Kent Beck
Average Customer Review:  based on 27 reviews.
Customer Review: This is the most inpiring and thought-provocing book on programming that I have read for many years. Very well-written, short, fun. Whatever language you are programming in, you will find it useful. Niels Holst, Aarhus University.
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| Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (The Agile Software Development Series)
by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Average Customer Review: based on 34 reviews.
Customer Review: This book is excellent. Both Mary and Tom compares the software development with other fields of production. I've to say that if the steps planted in this book are followed seriously, your company will be great.
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