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

What Is Our Approach?

Adopting agile requires a change in thinking—it’s not just adopting a set of practices. Too many teams have adopted a list of practices and called themselves “agile.” This book can help teams get past a typical, rote approach to adopting agile and start gaining the real benefits that agile promises. Even if you are already experienced and successful with agile, you can gain additional insights that can help you and your teams be even more successful. (Continuous improvement is one of the fundamental concepts of agile.) Basically, we don’t care what specific agile practices you’ve adopted—what we’re concerned with in this book is whether you’ve gained the benefits from adopting those practices and, if not, we can provide ...