An accessible, innovative perspective on using the flexibility of agile practices toincrease software quality and profitabilityWhen agile approaches in your organization don't work as expected or you feelcaught in the choice between agility and discipline, it is time to stop and think aboutsoftware development rhythms!Agile software development is a popular development process that continues to reshape philosophies on the connections between disciplined processes and agile practices. In Software Development Rhythms, authors Lui and Chan explain how adopting one practice and combining it with another builds upon the flexibility of agile practices to create a type of "synergy" defined as software development rhythms. The authors demonstrate how these rhythms can be harmonized to achieve synergies, making them stronger together than they would be apart. Software Development Rhythms provides programmers with a powerful metaphor for resolving some classic software management controversies and dealing with some common difficulties in agile software management.Software Development Rhythms is divided into two parts and covers:Essentials - provides an introduction to software development rhythms; explores the programmer's unconscious mind at work on software methodology; discusses the characteristics of the iterative cycle and open source software development; and introduces the topic of agile values and agile practicesRhythms - compares plagiarism programming with cut-paste programming; provides an in-depth discussion of different ways to approach collaborative programming; demonstrates how to combine and harmonize these practices so they can be applied to common software management problems such as motivating programmers, discovering solution patterns, managing software teams, and rescuing troubled IT projects; and takes a comprehensive look at Scrum, CMMI, Just-In-Time, Lean Software Development, and Test-Driven Development from a software development rhythm perspectiveAbundantly illustrated with informative graphics and amusing cartoons, Software Development Rhythms is a comprehensive and thought-provoking introduction to some of the most advanced concepts in current software management. Written in a refreshingly easy-to-read style and filled with interesting anecdotes, simulation exercises, and case studies, Software Development Rhythms is suitable for the practitioner and graduate student alike. It offers readers practical guidance on how to take the themes and concepts presented in this book back to their own projects to harmonize their software practices and release the synergies of their own teams.

PART I: ESSENTIALS.Chapter 1: No Programmer Dies.1.1 Developing Software vs. Building a Tunnel.1.2 Do-Re-Mi Do-Re-Mi.1.3 Software Development Rhythms.Chapter 2: Understanding Programmers.2.1 Personality and Intelligence.2.2 Outsourced Programmers.2.3 Experienced Management.Chapter 3: Start with Open Source.3.1 Process and Practice.3.2 OSS Development.3.3 OOS-Like Development.PART II: RHYTHMS.Chapter 4: Plagiarism Programming.4.1 Plagiarism.4.2 Nothing Faster than Plagiarism.4.3 Business and Rhythm for Plagiarism.Chapter 5: Pair Programming.5.1 Art and Science.5.2 Two Worlds.5.3 Programming Task Demands.5.4 Pair programming is more than programming.5.5 Pair programming Team Coached.Chapter 6: Repeat Programming.6.1 Controversies in Pair Programming.6.2 Repeat Programming.6.3 Rhythm: Pair - Solo - Pair - Solo.6.4 An exception that proves Brooks' Law.Chapter 7: Agile Teaming.7.1 Project Teams.7.2 Productivity.7.3 Problems and Problem Owners.7.4 Failing Projects Rescued.7.5 Beware of Iago.Chapter 8: Incremental Design.8.1 Modeling and Planning.8.2 Rework or reuse.8.3 Just-in-time Software Development.8.4 Requirements Complexity.8.5 Refactoring.Chapter 9: Test-Driven Development.9.1 Reverse Waterfall.9.2 Test-First Programming.9.3 Rhythm: Test - Code - Refactor.9.4 Rapid Software Process Improvement.Epilogue: Medley.Appendix I: Nammik.References.