Extreme Programming

Kent Beck burst onto the software engineering with a refreshing approach to software development called extreme Programming. Read this book:

Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck, Addison Wesley 2000.

This is a quirky book that is essentially a criticism of XP. But what it does is enable the reader to get a better understanding of the method.

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP, Matt Stephens and Doug Rosenberg, Apress, 2003