Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise

Foreword

The process wars are over, and agile has won. While working at Forrester, we observed that agile methods had gone mainstream, with the majority of organizations saying that they were using agile on at least 38% of their projects. But the reality of agile usage, as Scott and Mark point out, is far from the original ideas described by the 17 thought leaders in 2001. Instead, agile is undermined by organizational inertia, politics, people’s skills, management practices, vendors, and outsourced development. I observed that the reality of agile was something more akin to water-scrum-fall—water-scrum describing the inability of an organization to start any project without a lengthy phase up front that defined all the requirements, planning ...