This chapter describes seven properties set up by the best teams. Crystal Clear requires the first three. Better teams use the other four properties to get farther into the safety zone. All of the properties aside from osmotic communication apply to projects of all sizes....

This chapter provides helpful information on using aspect-oriented programming to develop security components for distributed applications. The effectiveness of AOP technology is demonstrated with two application-level security problems that illustrate the utility of this technology....

At the surface user stories appear to have much in common with use cases and traditional requirements statements. However there are many subtle differences among them and many advantages to user stories especially for agile development projects....

Agile MDA combines two seemingly contradictory ideas Agility and Modeling. As we shall see these notions do not in fact conflict--so long as models can be executed....

Jim Highsmith introduces the concept of Agile Product Management a style of product development that concentrates on adaptive and exploratory rather than anticipatory and prescriptive management....

Agile software development is based on telling stories. In this sample chapter you ll learn about user roles role modeling user role maps and personas. You ll also find out how taking these initial steps leads to better stories and better software. n...

Iterative and evolutionary development is a foundation not only of modern software methods but of methods used as far back as the 1960s. Agile methods are a subset of iterative and evolutionary methods. This chapter summarizes key practices of iterative and evolutionary software development.nn...

So what does it feel like to develop software according to plan-driven or agile methods In this chapter we try to portray the activities in a typical day on a software development project as performed by a plan-driven PSP TSP-trained team and by an agile XP-trained team....

At last you have decided that agile methodologies are worth a try and now you are looking for the right methodology to introduce in a pilot project at your firm. Which one should you use...

Working with the DSDM philosophy means adopting an attitude of collaboration cooperation and commitment from everyone involved. This includes end-users management and technology professionals. The benefits go beyond a good piece of software....

Does your hard work on a development project get pitched because someone else on the project saved conflicting changes In this article William C. Wake describes methods XP developers use to keep their efforts from going to waste....

In this chapter from Planning Extreme Programming Kent Beck and Martin Fowler explain how extreme programming is like driving a car it s not about pointing the car in one direction and holding to it; it s about making lots of little course corrections.n...

Kent Beck shows you how to maximize the economic value of a software project by paying attention to cash flows interest rates and project mortality from his book Extreme Programming Explained....

In this chapter from his book Extreme Programming Explored William Wake gives a practical you-are-there glimpse into what happens in a typical day during an XP iteration from the perspective of customer programmer and manager.n...

In this chapter from his book Surviving Object-Oriented Projects Alistair Cockburn discusses selecting and setting up an OO project including purpose people technology and training....