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Essential Skills for the Agile Developer

Essential Skills for the Agile Developer – A Guide to Better Programming and Design, Alan Shalloway, – 2012

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Becoming Agile

Becoming Agile In An Imperfect World, Greg Smith, Manning, 2009 Team leaders in charge of software projects will want to read this. 350 pages.

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Clean Code

Clean Code : a Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship / Robert C. Martin ; [with] Michael C. Feathers … [et al.], Prentice Hall, 2009 The programming gods have spoken, and this is the way and the light. The example code … Continue reading

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Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C♯

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C♯ / Robert C. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2007 Developers will want to read this book. With a foreword by Erich Gamma, of Eclipse fame. Hardcover, 700 pages.

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Art of Agile Development

The Art of Agile Development / James Shore, O’Reilly, 2008 XP programmers and team leaders will find this book useful. 400 pages.

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Agile Software Development

Agile Software Development : the cooperative game / Alistair Cockburn, Addison-Wesley, 2007 Programmers and team leaders can read this book to become better communicators. 400 pages.

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The Productive Programmer

The Productive Programmer / Neal Ford, O’Reilly, 2008. Programmers will find this excellent book useful. It is a companion to `Apprenticeship Patterns`. It stresses the power of the command line. Legendary O’Reilly quality, 200 pages.

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Apprenticeship Patterns

Apprenticeship Patterns : guidance for the aspiring software craftsman / David H. Hoover, O’Reilly, 2010 If you are planning a career in Agile Software Development, then this book contains good advice. The foreword is by Ward Cunningham. See also the … Continue reading

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Emergent Design

Emergent Design : the evolutionary nature of professional software development / Scott L. Bain, Addison-Wesley, 2008 Here is a textbook on software development. If you can get past the use of the word ‘emergent’, this is a good book. 350 … Continue reading

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Agile Project Management

Agile Project Management : creating innovative products / Jim Highsmith, Addison-Wesley, 2010 Written by a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, this book is an excellent discussion of software project management. 400 pages.

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