Essential reading for what's likely to be a revolution in software development

Ward Cunningham invented CRC cards (which helped get us through the first decade of object-oriented design), many of the principles of Extreme Programming, and wikis (Wikipedia is a natural extension of his "Portland Patterns Repository").

Now he's pioneered a way to tie together the front end and tail end of software development efforts (requirements and testing), and to help technical and non-technical people work together to describe what software should do. Incidentally, he's provided a way to measure *real* progress, by tallying up what customer value has been successfully implemented.

FIT and Fitnesse haven't yet taken the software development profession by storm. Compare that to test-driven development and JUnit/xUnit, back in 1998: they took a while to catch on, but now they're an important part of the software development profession.

Want to get a heads start on the next "next thing"? Read this book.

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