Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

How did adopting agile change your team dynamics? Did it improve your productivity?

What waterfall thinking, operating under the guise of agile, would answer

“Our agile development team writes code for several iterations and then our agile test team gets involved in the project. Our productivity has not improved.”

What we’d like to hear

“We found out that ‘being agile’ required us to adopt the whole team approach because the synergy that resulted from cross-disciplined, cross-component teams working together helped us be more productive than when the disciplines worked in isolation.”