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

Acknowledgments

We really enjoyed writing this book because it helped us to distill our years of thinking about these topics. We have had many discussions through our work with various teams on what is required to help them succeed and our hope is that we can help even more teams with this book.

We received our initial education on agile software development from Tom and Mary Poppendieck. In addition to their education, the Poppendiecks gave IBM^® tremendous support that we have leveraged in our coaching over the years. The Poppendiecks certainly gave Leslie and her team the motivation early on to stick with their efforts to make agile work and to get better in the process of doing so. We also want to thank Tom in particular for providing a review ...