《用户故事与敏捷方法》详细介绍了用户故事与敏捷开发方法的结合，诠释了用户故事的重要价值，用户故事的实践过程，良好用户故事编写准则，如何搜集和整理用户故事，如何排列用户故事的优先级，进而澄清真正适合用户需求的、有价值的功能需求。 《用户故事与敏捷方法》对于软件开发人员、测试人员、需求分析师和管理者，具有实际的指导意义和重要的参考价值。

"Agile Software Development is a highly stimulating and rich book. The author has a deep background and gives us a tour de force of the emerging agile methods." -Tom Gilb The agile model of software development has taken the world by storm. Now, in Agile Software Development, Second Edition, one of agile's leading pioneers updates his Jolt Productivity award-winning book to reflect all that's been learned about agile development since its original introduction. Alistair Cockburn begins by updating his powerful model of software development as a "cooperative game of invention and communication." Among the new ideas he introduces: harnessing competition without damaging collaboration; learning lessons from lean manufacturing; and balancing strategies for communication. Cockburn also explains how the cooperative game is played in business and on engineering projects, not just software development Next, he systematically illuminates the agile model, shows how it has evolved, and answers the questions developers and project managers ask most often, including * Where does agile development fit in our organization? * How do we blend agile ideas with other ideas? * How do we extend agile ideas more broadly? Cockburn takes on crucial misconceptions that cause agile projects to fail. For example, you'll learn why encoding project management strategies into fixed processes can lead to ineffective strategy decisions and costly mistakes. You'll also find a thoughtful discussion of the controversial relationship between agile methods and user experience design. Cockburn turns to the practical challenges of constructing agile methodologies for your own teams. You'll learn how to tune and continuously reinvent your methodologies, and how to manage incomplete communication. This edition contains important new contributions on these and other topics: * Agile and CMMI * Introducing agile from the top down * Revisiting "custom contracts" * Creating change with "stickers" In addition, Cockburn updates his discussion of the Crystal methodologies, which utilize his "cooperative game" as their central metaphor. If you're new to agile development, this book will help you succeed the first time out. If you've used agile methods before, Cockburn's techniques will make you even more effective.

从编程技术到项目管理，Roy Singham、Martin Fowler、Rebecca Parsons等来自ThoughtWorks的思想领袖通过本书中的13篇美文，将自己多年沉思和实践所得倾囊相授，引领你走向敏捷软件开发的成功之路。 本书内容丰富，涵盖了软件开发的各个阶段，既包含DSL、SOA、多语言开发和领域驱动设计等热门主题，也有对象设计、一键发布、性能测试和项目管理等方面的经验之谈和独到见解。不论你是开发人员还是项目管理人员，都将从本书中获益匪浅。

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. You concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details. Tens of thousands of developers have used this award-winning book to learn Rails. It's a broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference that's recommended by the Rails core team. If you're new to Rails, you'll get step-by-step guidance. If you're an experienced developer, this book will give you the comprehensive, insider information you need. Rails has evolved over the years, and this book has evolved along with it. We still start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. This edition now gives new Ruby and Rails users more information on the Ruby language and takes more time to explain key concepts throughout. Best practices on how to apply Rails continue to change, and this edition keeps up. Examples use cookie backed sessions, HTTP authentication, and Active Record-based forms, and the book focuses throughout on the right way to use Rails. Additionally, this edition now reflects Ruby 1.9, a new release of Ruby with substantial functional and performance improvements.

《敏捷开发艺术(影印版)》是讲解如何利用敏捷开发方法构建高价值软件的实用指南，描述了什么是敏捷开发，以及为什么它能帮助软件项目获得成功的原因。该书还将开发者、项目经理、测试者和客户所需信息整合在一起，以便直接运用。 《敏捷开发艺术(影印版)》展现了敏捷过程的完整视图，基于作者多年的极限编程（XP）经验，直截了当地提出关于计划、开发、交付和管理等多方面实施的建议。它为开发者和测试者提供实用的技术练习，同样也为非技术背景读者提供了充分的信息。作者还介绍了如何处理敏捷开发中的棘手问题：建立团队成员之间的协作和信任关系。 《敏捷开发艺术(影印版)》针对下列问题给出明确的答案： 如何采用敏捷开发？ 我们是否真的需要结对编程？ 应该基于何种度量（metrics）报告？ 如何让我们的客户共同参与项目？ 我们应该撰写多少文档？ 何时设计架构？ 作为非开发者，该如何与敏捷团队合作？ 我的产品路线图在哪里？ QA如何适应敏捷开发？ 无论你是敏捷团队的一员，还是刚刚对敏捷开发产生兴趣，这《敏捷开发艺术》具备了你需要的所有实用技巧。它向你说明引入XP的过程，详细描述其中每一项实践，并且讨论了如何修改XP和创建自己的敏捷方法等相关原则。该书将随着你的经验提升而不断深入，首先教你规则，然后告诉你如何突破它们，当掌握了敏捷开发艺术之时，最终便可以摈弃一切规则。

Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. The Productive Programmer offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what platform you use. Master developer Neal Ford not only offers advice on the mechanics of productivity-how to work smarter, spurn interruptions, get the most out your computer, and avoid repetition-he also details valuable practices that will help you elude common traps, improve your code, and become more valuable to your team. You'll learn to: * Write the test before you write the code * Manage the lifecycle of your objects fastidiously * Build only what you need now, not what you might need later * Apply ancient philosophies to software development * Question authority, rather than blindly adhere to standards * Make hard things easier and impossible things possible through meta-programming * Be sure all code within a method is at the same level of abstraction * Pick the right editor and assemble the best tools for the job This isn't theory, but the fruits of Ford's real-world experience as an Application Architect at the global IT consultancy ThoughtWorks. Whether you're a beginner or a pro with years of experience, you'll improve your work and your career with the simple and straightforward principles in The Productive Programmer.