Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise

Preface

Introduction to the Book

In the past decade, the movement to lighter-weight and increasingly agile methods has been the most significant change to affect the software enterprise since the advent of the waterfall model in the 1970s. Originated by a variety of thought and practice leaders and proven in real-world, successful experiments, the methods have proven themselves to deliver outstanding benefits on the “big four” measures: productivity, quality, morale, and time to market.

In the past five years, the methods spread virally. Within the larger enterprise, the initiatives usually started out with individual teams adopting some or all of the practices espoused by the various methods, primarily XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban (later), and ...