Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

What Do You Have To Do?

For this book to be useful, teams have to be willing to “jump off the cliff” (so to speak) and give these breakthrough techniques a try. Many of the techniques can be tackled in a couple of weeks, but adopting one or more means removing other distractions and staying focused so that the techniques get the attention they require. Everyone on the team needs to have “skin in the game” and make a conscious effort to succeed. Such a mindset can serve the team well on its agile transformation journey.

Making agile stick is hard work. You may have to update your technologies, get rid of your project debt, be rigorous in your planning and execution, learn how to work as a team, listen to your stakeholders when they tell you what ...