Managing Agile Projects

Acknowledgments

The support and encouragement of an incredibly diverse community of friends, colleagues, and professional acquaintances from all over the world have made this book possible. Bob Martin, the series editor, detected this book in the germ of the idea I presented to him many moons ago. Many thanks are due to him for giving me the opportunity to create this book and place it in his series.

At home, I could not have devoted the long hours necessary to create this book without the innumerable and substantial sacrifices made in my favor by my wife, Sujatha and my brother-in-law, Sudhir. My father John, despite his ailing health, provided constant encouragement, as did my mother Jean and my parents-in-law, Frederick and Malathy.

My colleagues ...