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Product Description Agile Development, in particular, eXtreme Programming (XP), has been gaining a lot of momentum because it can effectively address the problems plaguing software development. In 2002, we, the Macau Productivity and Technology Center (CPTTM), started to hold courses on XP and OO design to teach the skills in agile development. At the beginning, we hired a well known software training and consulting company to teach. While the instructor was very professional and instructive and the feedbacks from the students were very good, the students didn't acquire the skills taught. We knew that it was because the concepts involved were abstract and it needed far more exercises for the students to practice in order to acquire the skills. Therefore, we decided to develop our enhanced training materials. In particular, we selected only 20% of the skills in agile development that deliver 80% of the value, while ignoring those useful but non-essential skills. Then we explained these skills in terms of examples and added a lot of real world examples as exercises. After adopting this set of materials, the new students really acquired the skills taught. Now we have organized the training materials into a book: Essential Skills for Agile Development. This book covers the essential skills in: OO design, Test Driven Development (TDD), team development, planning, communication and pair programming. Review Definitely a book written by a genuine programming expert for fellow programmers who want to escape from mundane programming. -- Brian Iu Ion Tong, member of the Science and Technology Council of the Macao SAR Government. I am pretty impressed of the first three chapters. I will recommend it to my students and my project members. -- Rachid Buamar, Institute of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germany. I've read some book about XP. When I read this book, I know I find the right one. -- E-Surfer It offers some very good advice to those that want to learn more about the skills necessary for agile development. -- Steve Eichert This book learns any developer how to apply the skills in Agile Development. Recommended reading for any software developer! -- David Boschmans, Project Manager at Compuware About the Author Ka Iok 'Kent' Tong, has a Master degree in Computer Science from the New South Wales University, Sydney, Australia. He was the winner of the Macao Programming Competition (Open Category) In 1992. He has been involved in professional software development, training and project management since 1993. Since 2002 he has been actively promoting Agile Development in Macao.