Introduction

Yogi Berra once said, “It's easy to get good players. Getting 'em to play together, that's the hard part.” Since you are reading this book, I am assuming you are already a skilled computer professional who is motivated to look for better ways of delivering high-value software to your customers. In other words, you are already a “good player.” This book's central theme speaks to Yogi's “hard part”: getting good players to play together.

To build a winning team, a coach needs good players, good equipment, and good plays. In the software development industry, the players are software developers who have a passion for building software systems and applications that deliver high value to their customers. Motivated software developers ...

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