About You

Your name is Jim Hopper. You’ve worked with a dozen agile teams in the past three years. You’ve typically worked as an agile coach-consultant hired by companies at the start of their agile journey. Of the teams you’ve coached, six have continued to flourish long after you left, while others have stagnated. You found out last week that the most recent of the teams you’ve coached has abandoned agile altogether and returned to waterfall in order to meet a deadline.

Your background is diverse. You began working as a software developer in the dot-com boom coding in Java. Then you moved on to coding in .NET. You came across agile through XP (which is short for extreme programming). After five years as a software developer, you became a ...

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