"Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition," lacks the alliterative punch of "Good to Great" or "The Effective Executive." But the book--written for coders--has become a kind ...

Beck then spelled out the development methodology in a book titled Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (Addison-Wesley, 1999). Programmers must follow a common coding standard so all the ...

The concept was launched by Kent Beck's 1999 book Extreme Programming Explained, which rode Amazon's top 500 for nine months and inspired numerous XP fan sites. This month sees the publication of ...

Beck’s ideas in Extreme Programming Explained provided some of the key practices used in the Agile movement, which has revolutionized how software gets built, and today Beck applies his thinking ...