Ron Jeffries (1)

A general book about XP, written by people who pioneered it. XP 'Installed' isn't the first book they've written on the subject, and intends to describe XP in-practice rather than describing XP for beginners.

On balance:
+ friendly, colloquially written and easy to read
+ good introductory level
+ make sure that you've "heard the talk"
- more a collection of articles than a purpose written book
- lots of repetition of common ground
- examples in Smalltalk (oh man) or occasionally in Java
- beginning to become a little dated: no mention of JIRA or git!… (más)