Chapter 11. Practice Tips

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

OVERVIEW

• Tips for agile or iterative projects, organized into categories such as Project Management and Requirements.

  - For example, Project Management: Multisite iterative development. Environment: Continuous integration. Test: Test-driven development.

What practices are applied when working on iterative and agile projects? Many answers are found in the method-specific chapters. This chapter offers other miscellaneous "tips of the trade" and adds detail to some mentioned elsewhere. Regarding the scope and detail: This chapter (and book) is an introduction.

Naturally, many questions arise when first adopting an iterative method, such as:

• How does one plan the iterations?

• How does continuous integration work?

• What does test-driven development look like?

The answers are organized in common discipline categories: project management, environment, requirements, and test.