Agile Software Development in the Large: Diving Into the Deep

Acknowledgments

A mountain is not in the need of a mountain,But the human is in the need of a human.

—Basque proverb

A book like this is always the result of many years of development. That’s why it is so difficult to thank all the people who supported its creation. I would like to apologize in advance to all those people I may have accidentally forgotten.

First, though, I would like to thank Frank Westphal, who suggested that I accompany him to a remote island to concentrate on writing (Frank was writing his book on test-driven development). My sister, Eva Eckstein—a librarian—gave us the idea of hiding on the island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea, where many German writers—including several winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Thomas Mann, ...