Preface

You know, we do this stuff all the time. We should just write a book about it!

John Sutcliffe

Agile software development is a growing trend as companies look for ways to improve quality, reduce time to deliver software to the market, and more accurately deliver software that meets the needs of their clients. At the same time, globalization, distributed software development work, and telecommuting are rapidly changing how software development teams work.

In 2007, Dr. Dobbs Journal reported that agile software development had successfully crossed Moore’s technology-adoption chasm in that 69% of agile survey respondents indicated their organizations were doing one or more agile projects (Ambler 2007). Of the remaining respondents, 24% believed ...

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