Preface

We are all called to be pontifeces—bridge builders. Various rivers already have a crossing, At many others we stand at diverse waters And look for pontoons, For a footbridge, for communication. No sea separates creation and technology, But, often, speechlessness.

—August Everding

Several years back when I was preparing the manuscript for Agile Software Development in the Large, I encountered only a few people scaling agile methods up to use on large projects, teams, and organizations.  Since then, many people have discovered that agility works for projects of all sizes, that agile methods are not only applicable on small teams.

There is, I have learned, a big difference between the mostly large projects I worked with five years ago and ...

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