If you can, try the practices as written for a few months, gain some real-world
experience on how they work in your environment, and then change them.
We??™ve been putting these ideas into practice for years. In the right environment, they really work. Agile
development has been more fun, and more successful, than any other approach to team software
development we??™ve tried. Come join the ride.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is for anyone who is, will be, or wants to be part of an agile team. That includes programmers,
of course, but it also includes domain experts, testers, projects managers, architects, designers, and
business analysts. Agile teams are cross-functional; this book reflects that fact.
If you??™re a leader or you??™re interested in bringing agile development to your team or organization, you
should read the whole book from cover to cover. Part I introduces agile concepts and describes how to
adopt XP. Part II describes each of XP??™s practices in detail. Part III goes beyond XP, looking at the
principles that allow you to create your own agile method by customizing XP to your particular situation.
XIV P R E F A C E
If you just want to learn enough to do your job, you can focus primarily on Part II.
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