Agile/XP book now freely available

kent_at_cpttm.org.mo
Date: 12/14/04

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    Hi,

    Agile Development, in particular, eXtreme Programming (XP),
    has been gaining a lot of momentum because it can effectively
    address the problems plaguing software development.

    In 2002, we, the Macau Productivity and Technology Center
    (CPTTM), started to hold courses on XP and OO design to teach
    the skills in agile development. At the beginning, we hired a
    well known software training and consulting company in US to
    teach. While the instructor was very professional and instructive
    and the feedbacks from the students were very good, the
    students didn't acquire the skills taught.

    We knew that it was because the concepts involved were abstract
    and it needed far more exercises for the students to practice
    in order to acquire the skills. Therefore, we decided to develop
    our enhanced training materials. In particular, we selected only
    the essential skills in agile development, ignoring those useful
    but non-essential skills. Then we explained these skills in terms
    of examples and added a lot of real world examples as exercises.
    After adopting this set of materials, the new students really
    acquired the skills taught.

    Now we have organized the training materials into a book:
    Essential Skills for Agile Development. This book covers the
    essential skills in: OO design, Test Driven Development (TDD),
    team development, planning, communication and pair programming.
    You can download it at http://www.agileskills.org/

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