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

Acknowledgments

It’s a humbling process to acknowledge all the contributions of others who have collaborated on this book.

I’d like to thank Don Reinertsen, who provided permission to use elements of his breakthrough text, Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. The principles from his book helped me truly understand things I thought I understood before (even if it did cause me to rework some chapters). Thanks to Alistair Cockburn, who contributed directly to the use-case chapter, and other agile thought leaders whose work I have, I hope, acknowledged appropriately.

I am particularly appreciative of those individuals who contributed so much to the intellectual content in the book. They—and their employers—allowed ...