Agile Software Development Author:Alistair Cockburn -- Not just a lightweight approach: highly scalable and completely customizable!-- Sound advice for completing even the most complex and difficult projects -- without burnout. — -- Based on more than ten years of research with highly functional software development teams. — Lightweight methodologies are exploding in popularity because their flexib... more »ility is ideal for today's fast-changing development environments. In Agile Software Development, legendary software expert Alistair Cockburn reviews the advantages and disadvantages of lightweight methods, synthesizing the field's key lessons into a simplified approach that allows developers to focus on building quality software rapidly, cost-effectively, and without burnout. Ideal for managers seeking to transcend yesterday's failed approaches, the agile movement views software development as a cooperative game. As players move throughout the game, they use markers and props to inform, remind, and inspire themselves and each other. The goal of the game: to deliver a working software system -- and to use the lessons of each project to build a new, smarter "game" for the next project. For every IT executive and manager, software developer, team leader, team member, and client concerned with building robust, cost-effective software.« less