Review: Practices of an Agile Developer

Recently I read ‘Practices of an Agile Developer’ book by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt, in this book we read a lot of practices, ideas, and approaches of successful agile software developers and the book presents them in a series of short, easy-to-digest tips. It covers following topics and this picture shows mind-map of the book:

- Agile Software Development

- Agile Manifesto

- Agile Toolkit

- Outcome over process idea

- Feeding Agility

- Brown-Bag sessions

- Invest in your team and how to keep up-to-date

- Learn and unlearn

- Track issue

- Design and business analysis

- Deployment automation

- Releasable code

- Continuous Integration

- CRC cards

- Iteration and incremental development

- Agile feedback

- Agile design and business analysis

- Backlog technique

- Measure progress

- Scrum sprints

- Importance of feedback by team, code, and user

- Unit testing and T.D.D

- Encapsulation

- Elegant Code

- Commenting

- Inheritance and delegation

- Agile debugging

- Exception handling

- Solution logs

- Prototype

- Project sharing

- Stand up meeting

- Information radiator

- Rescue a failing project

It is a great book and I highly recommend it for developers, project managers, and IT professionals.