Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises

ForewordBy Philippe Kruchten, Ph.D., P. Eng.^*

If you’re new to the agile process world, you may have opened this book with a mixture of apprehension and skepticism. I would not blame you. Agile processes may seem the place of strange expressions—sprint, velocity, scrum (is this a rugby game?), extreme programming (are we jumping off cliffs with a snowboard?), user stories, epics and sagas (is this a writers’ workshop?)—and weird social rituals: pair programming, user retrospectives, huddles, or daily stand-up meetings (are developers and testers now hugging each other at work?). Agile teams also seem to consume inordinate amounts of colorful sticky notes and 4 × 6 index cards to cover any walls they can put their hands on, and the whole thing ...