The “What It Feels Like” sections are just gold—it’s one thing to tell someone to do this; it’s quite another to put it into practice and know you’re doing it right.

The book is what I’ve come to expect from the Pragmatic Bookshelf: short, easy to read, to the point, deep, insightful and useful. It should be a valuable resource for people wanting to do “agile.”

When I started reading Practices of an Agile Developer, I kept thinking, “Wow, a lot of developers need this book.” It did not take long to realize that I needed this book. I highly recommend it to developers of all experience levels.

Practices of an Agile Developer uses common sense and experience to illustrate why you should consider adopting agile practices on your projects. This is precisely the kind of real-world, experiential information that is most difficult to glean from a book.

The perfect sequel to The Pragmatic Programmer!

I was familiar with some of the practices mentioned since I own other books from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, but this book brings a lot of those ideas together and presents them in a clear, concise, organized format. I would highly recommend this book to a new developer or to a development team that wanted to get “agile.”

With agile practices spreading across the industry, there is a growing need to understand what it really means to be “agile.” This book is a concise and practical guide to becoming just that.

Maybe you have heard before about agile methodologies and have been asking yourself, what things can I do to improve my work each day? My answer would be to read this book and let the angels inside whisper in your ears the best personal practices you can embrace.

This is a remarkably comprehensive yet targeted and concise overview of the core practices of agility. What I like best about this book is that it doesn’t promote a specific agile methodology but rather ties together the practices common to each methodology into a coherent whole. This is required reading for anyone hungering for a faster, more reliable way to develop wickedly good software.