Hands-on Guide Demonstrates What ‘XP’ (Project Management) is Really About

December 2nd, 2002 by Hal

Nice book review by Dan Seewer on Builder.com of A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming by David Astels, Granville Miller, and Miroslav Novak Hands-on guide demonstrates what XP is really about. The book has been around since February, long enough that Amazon offers used copies for $17.75. The Amazon customer reviews are equally as positive as Seewer's review.

For a more comprehensive and useful review see Notes on a Practical Guide and Thoughts on Software Development by Ognian Pushev appearing in the Journal of Object Technology. JOT is published by ETH, the highly-regarded Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Pushev goes into detail summarizing key points in the book as well as commenting on the book. I recommend the book review even to people doing construction projects. Many practices of XP are transferrable to all project environments, particularly the practices for design, engineering, and architecture.

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3 Responses to “Hands-on Guide Demonstrates What ‘XP’ (Project Management) is Really About”

Hal Says:
December 5th, 2002 at 6:44 pm
Sorry for any confusion on XP. I’m referring to eXtreme Programming, one of the agile project methodologies, not Microsoft’s Windows XP.
Frank Patrick Says:
December 6th, 2002 at 10:28 pm
I can’f for the life of me see how XP(rogramming) morphs into XP(roject management). The approach feels to me like a nice approach to Task Management for iterative components of a project, but leaves me cold with its lack of promise making, which, in the end, is what project management is all about.
Buck Says:
December 8th, 2002 at 6:07 pm
Hi,
ooops, sorry for my mistake,
I must have had too much sun I guess

Bye

Buck

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