Ron Jeffries’ The Nature of Software Development (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

摘要

The only things you'll need to take advantage of Ron Jeffries' The Nature of Software Development are "your Standard Issue Brain, a bit of curiosity and a desire to build your own understanding". Subtitled Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece, Jeffries' book is intended to help you get value from your software project, perhaps not "free, now and perfect" as you wish but at least "cheaper, sooner and better". Jeffries leads readers from the desire for value down to the specific activities that help good Agile projects deliver better software sooner and at a lower cost. Using simple sketches and a few words, Jeffries invites readers to follow his path of learning and understanding from his engagement with Agile methods from their very beginning. Jeffries also illustrates why Agile methods ask for what they do, as well as why a shallow implementation of Agile can lead to only limited improvement. The ultimate goal is to embark on a long-term journey to make a project a bit more perfect each day and ultimately end up with a deep understanding of the nature of software development done well.