Agile Productivity Unleashed

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My sincerest thanks to the pioneers and thought leaders of the Agile world, most notably Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Alistair Cockburn, Jeff Sutherland, Mike Cohn, Ken Schwaber and Jim Highsmith, for their passionate work in developing and refining Agile practices over the past two decades. Particular thanks to Alistair Cockburn,¹ Petri Haapio,² Gabrielle Benefield,³ 1105 Media⁴ and BT⁵ for kindly allowing me to share their wisdom in this book; to Dale Kleeman at the University of Canberra⁶ for his guidance in my business process modeling research; and to Artem Marchenko of AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com^™7 for generously making his tracking tools available for everyone in the Agile community to use.

Thanks also to the small and large ...