Foreword by jon Kern
"Got database?"[1] Then get agile!
The agile movement was given shape in the shadows of 11,000-foot peaks of Snowbird, Utah, in February 2001. Ever since, people and pundits alike have been talking and practicing agility. Many development groups, tired of the failed promise of heavyweight processes and death marches towards uncertain goals in uncertain timeframes, are finding comfort in a "human-readable" set of development philosophies and principles.
Scott Ambler has a strong voice in the agile community, founding the Agile Modeling Forum in February 2001. To all who "know" Scott, it is clear that he is passionate about helping development teams succeed for their stakeholders and, ultimately, their customers.
There are many resources that address object modeling, agile techniques, UML (Unified Modeling Language), language-specific intricacies, database design, SQL, and so on. Many good books present information on how to develop a good object-oriented application. Likewise, there are excellent tomes on techniques for developing and tuning databases. It is less likely that you will run across books that describe an evolutionary, agile approach to data-oriented development.
In this book, Scott addresses this key area of application development — the database. He extends the reach of agile techniques across the application team, from developer to database architect, demonstrating that agile techniques are no longer the sole domain of the development folks. The DBA ...
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