Head first software development / Dan Pilone and Russ Miles.

Includes index.

Great software development -- Gathering requirements -- Project planning -- User stories and tasks -- Good-enough design -- Version control -- Building your code -- Testing and continuous integration -- Test-driven development -- Ending an iteration -- The next iteration -- Bugs -- The real world.

Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let Head First Software Development guide you through the best practices of software development. Before you know it, those failed projects will be a thing of the past. With its unique visually rich format, this book pulls together the hard lessons learned by expert software developers over the years. You'll gain essential information about each step of the software development lifecycle -- requirements, design, coding, testing, implementing, and maintenance -- and understand why and how different development processes work.