The agile samurai

Agile doesn't mean blindly feeling around until you figure it out for yourself. It means using the best practices you find or invent to achieve the manifesto. If this book has some good insights, it's a worthwhile read.

Does it, though? I dunno. I didn't read it. When I see a book with words like 'ninja' and 'samurai' and it doesn't involve martial arts, I generally just ignore it because it seems childish.

I was one of the early reviewers (which means getting to read a PDF for free, so take what I say with a grain of salt). The book didn't strike me as particularly prescriptive in the "you have to do this to be Agile-with-a-capital-A" sense. The whole samurai thing was kind of like a running gag to keep the tone light. I don't think I'd have noticed this book on the shelf ("Agile? Don't we already know what that's about?"), but having it dropped into my lap, so to speak... it was a fun read.