Volatility and uncertainty increasingly defines today's business environment. Agile software developers create products that lead organizations through turbulence and uncertainty by balancing flexibility and structure. Agile development defines a strategic capability to create and respond to change. Agile Software Construction reviews the leading agile development processes. It explains what each processes is and what it attempts to achieve. It also explains what they are not and dispels numerous myths surrounding agile development. The book introduces the core concepts in a concise and easily digested form, and evaluates how successful the core techniques can be, as well as what problems may be encountered. The book also shows how some of these problems have been overcome on real world projects by combining XP, Agile modelling and Feature Driven Development.

There are no Agile method books around which acknowledge the realities within which most software projects have to work (such as imposed by methods such as PRINCE) Additionally, most books focus on one particular approach (such as XP or Agile Modelling) This book tries to take a more realistic look at how the different methods can work together within real development projects

Inhalt
Agile Methods and the Agile Manifesto.- Agile Modelling.- How to Become an Agile Modeller.- Extreme Programming (XP).- Putting XP into Practise.- Agile Modelling and XP.- Agile Modelling and XP Reviewed.- Feature-Driven Development.- Planning a Sample FDD Project.- Agile Methods with RUP and PRINCE2.- Introducing Agile Methods into Your Organisation.- Tools to Help with Agile Development.- Obstacles to Agile Software Development.