“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 ...

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

Kent Beck, a pioneer of the Agile software development movement and author of Extreme Programming Explained.

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.