Preface

By Leslie Ekas

Your team embarked on adopting agile a while ago, but the results you expected to see by now just haven’t materialized. To be honest, you’re kind of surprised, especially given all the hype about agile, the stories of wild success you’ve seen online, and the tremendous enthusiasm expressed by the team early on. There might even be some whispered talk in the hallway about “chucking this agile thing” and going back to waterfall. If you find yourself in a situation similar to this, then this book is for you.

The target audience is software engineers and leaders who understand how to apply agile to software development but may find their teams falling back into old habits when the going gets tough or because an old waterfall ...

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