Gabriel Garcia Fdez

After almost a year in my bookshelf, I’ve finally read “The Agile Samurai” by Jonathan Rasmusson. First thing I liked and I want to say: it’s a book about Agile. That is, not a book about Scrum nor XP nor Kanban nor whatever. It’s about the Agile principles and how to become agile without following any of the well-known methodologies.
I recommend the second part of the book, “Agile Project Inception”, to everyone who’s going to start a project (even if you’ll use Scrum, XP, etc.). “The Inception Deck” seems me a really good approach to kick off an agile project.
On the other hand, I think that the last chapters (which are related with Unit Testing, Technical Debt, TDD and Continous Integration) are not at the same level of the rest of the book. And the code examples are written in Microsoft .NET C# (OMG! I cried when I saw it! :P).
To sum up, it’s a good, easy-read book that introduced you the main Agile principles with some pragmatic and useful tricks that help you becoming Agile.

Score: ***