“Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition,” lacks the alliterative punch of “Good to Great” or “The Effective Executive.” But the book–written for coders–has ...

The concept was launched by Kent Beck's 1999 book Extreme Programming Explained, which rode Amazon's top 500 for nine months and inspired numerous XP fan sites.

While there are many books on XP, I suggest Extreme Programming Explained. Using this book, Section 1 would be an adequate reading assignment.

Beck then spelled out the development methodology in a book titled Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (Addison-Wesley, 1999).

A 17-year veteran of the software industry, the Oregon-based coder first outlined his ideas in the 1999 book Extreme Programming Explained.