本书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》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。

Preface

Part I．Getting Started

 1．Why Agile?

Understanding Success

Beyond Deadlines

The Importance of 0rganizatiOnal SL

Enter Agility

 2．How to Be Agile

Agile Methods

Don’t Make Your Own Method

The Road to Mastery

Find a Mentor

 3．Undemt~nding XP

The XP Lifecycle

TheXPTeam

XP Concepts

 4．Adopting XP

IsXPRightforUs?

Go!

Assess Your Agility

Part II．Practicing XP

 5．Thinking

Pair Programming

Energized Work

Informative Workspace

Root—Cause Analysis

Retrospectives

 6．Collaborating

Trust

Sit Together

Real Customer Involvement

Ubiquitous Language

Stand—up Meetings

Coding Standards

Iteration Demo

Reporting

 7．Releasing

“Done Done“

NoBugs

Version Control

Ten．Minute Build

Continuous Integration

Collective Code Ownership

Documentation

 8．Planning

Vision

Release Planning

The Planning Game

Risk Management

Iteration Planning

Slack

Stories

Estimating

 9．Developing

Incremental Requirements

Customer Tests

Test-Driven Development

Refactoring

Simple Design

Incremental Design and Architecture

Spike Solutions

Performance Optimization

Exploratory Testing

Part III．Mastering Agility

 10．Values and Principles

Commonalities

About Values，Principles，and Practices

Further Reading

 11．Improve the Process

Understand Your Project

Tune and Adapt

Break the Rules 

 12．Rely on People

Build Effective Relationships

Let the Right People Do the Right Things

Build the Process for the People

 13．Eliminate Waste

Work in Small，Reversible Steps

Fail Fast

Maximize W0rk Not Done

Pursue Throughput

 14．Deliver Value。

Exploit Your Agility

Only Releasable Code Has Value

Deliver Business Results

Deliver Frequently

 15．Seek TechnicaI Excellence

Software Doesn’t Exist

Design Is for Understanding

Design Trade-offs

Quality with a Name

Great Design

Universal Design Principles

Principles in Practice

Pursue Mastery

References

Index