Want to be a better developer? This books collects the personal habits, ideas, and approaches of successful agile software developers and presents them in a series of short, easy-to-digest tips. This isn't academic fluff; follow these ideas and you'll show yourself, your teammates, and your managers real results. These are the proven and effective agile practices that will make you a better developer.

This book will help you improve five areas of your career:

The Development Process

What to Do While Coding

Developer Attitudes

Project and Team Management

Iterative and Incremental Learning

These practices provide guidelines that will help you succeed in delivering and meeting your user's expectations, even if the domain is unfamiliar. You'll be able to keep normal project pressure from turning into disastrous stress while writing code, and see how to effectively coordinate mentors, team leads, and developers in harmony.

You can learn all this stuff the hard way, but this book can save you time and pain. Read it, and you'll be a better developer.

Venkat Subramaniam博士

Agile Developer公司創始人，敏捷開發權威人士。他培訓並指導瞭美國、加拿大、印度和歐洲多國的上韆名軟件開發人員，並多次在各種大會上發錶演講。他還是.NET Gotchas的作者。可以通過venkats@agiledeveloper.com與他聯係。

Andy Hunt

敏捷開發權威人士，敏捷宣言的創始人，Pragmatic Programmers公司創始人。除瞭本書，他還是多本獲奬和備受好評圖書的閤著者，這些圖書包括Programming Ruby、《程序員修煉之道——從小工到專傢》、《單元測試之道C#版——使用NUnit 》、《單元測試之道Java版——使用JUnit》、《版本控製之道——使用CVS 》等。