An Excellent Agile Development Primer

This book contains enough useful information on Rapid Application Development that it should be considered an ideal primer for the fundamental aspects of agile development. It also provides a good review on the other development methodologies and techniques that are practiced in the IT industry today. This book also has some newer concepts in the agile arena which I found of particular interest like Aspect-Orientated Programming.

I found the clear and concise writing style very easy to read and definitely assisted in my understanding of the topic under consideration. The author clearly demonstrates a breadth and depth of knowledge for the subject matter acquired from experience in software development. This is highlighted with the excellent use of a case study which draws on personal experience to provide an insight as to why an agile development process is beneficial to all the stake holders in a software project. Such was the value of this case study that I would have liked to seen them used elsewhere in the book.

Although the book targets the J2EE platform in the title and worked examples, a significant amount of the book can easily be applied to other software development environments, like .NET in general.

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