Chapter 1. Introduction
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. | ||
| --Joseph Wood Krutch | ||
OVERVIEW
What's in this book?
Predictable versus new product development.
What value will you get from studying this book, an introduction to iterative and agile methods?
First, you will know the key practices of four noteworthy methods, Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), the Unified Process (UP), and Evo (one of the original iterative methods). This is a “Cliffs Notes” summary, each chapter has something useful to you as a manager, developer, or student of development methods.
Second, your learning curve will be shortened, as this is a distilled learning aid. The four method chapters have the same structure, to speed comprehension and compare-contrast. ...
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