In Agile Technical Practices, authors Pedro Moreira Santos, Marco Consolaro, and Alessandro Di Gioia advocate for practices like Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development (TDD). Their comprehensive guide navigates through intricate design and refactoring methodologies, fostering code readability and resilience. The book describes a limited yet crucial set of practices. However, the deep dive and the insights provided in the book make them applicable for developers.
Besides the three key practices that Pedro, Marco, and Alessandro distill and describe, there are other practices worth knowing as well.
In Agile Technical Practices – If only you knew them !, my latest article that I wrote for Agile Connection, I tell more about the book and explain why I think it matters: books like this make organizations aware that effective value delivery is most likely obtained by proficient developers who know, talk about, and apply these practices. I am truly glad that I am not alone in this important vision. I wonder if you know of more books like this.
Derk-Jan de Grood 