Clean Agile

Robert C. Martin, widely known as Uncle Bob, returns to the Agile Manifesto two decades after it appeared, restating its values and principles for developers entering the field now. He is the author of The Clean Coder and Clean Code, and his aim here is to push agile work toward greater professionalism and discipline, with the goal of producing more effective and successful software.

Rather than laying out a menu of options and leaving readers to decide, Martin states which choices to make and explains why each one matters to a project's success. He takes on the questions that tend to arise in agile teams: how the approach began, what it costs and what it returns, which practices work best, how a team should be structured, and what programmers, testers and managers each contribute. The book also covers the role of the agile coach, how agile applies to large projects, and which kinds of work it suits.

The book is intended for programmers, managers, testers, project managers and anyone expected to lead or take part in an agile software project.