Changing Software Development: Learning to Become Agile

Acknowledgements

There are many people who I need to thank for helping me directly, and indirectly, to write this book. First and foremost, I must thank Taissia, who not only read the final manuscripts but, more importantly, allowed me the time to write the book.

Many thanks go to the reviewers – Alan Griffiths, Liz Sedley, Jonathon Sefton, Rachel Davies and Giovanni Asproni – and to Nicki Kelly for additional editing.

I am indebted to John Merrells, who as ACCU Overload editor encouraged my early attempts at writing. For over four years, John published most of what I wrote, helped me improve and allowed me to move away from technical topics into more reflective management topics. Thanks again to Alan Griffiths, who took over as Overload editor when John stepped down.

Thank you to the many members of the ACCU for good conversations and for acting as unknowing guinea pigs for the ideas in this book. Attentive readers will find the prototype of this book in the pages of Overload.

In particular, I must thank Kevlin Henney, who introduced me to Pattern writing and to the Pattern community. Although Patterns are not the topic of this book, I have learned much through Pattern writing. So I must thank the Hillside, EuroPLoP and VikingPLoP communities for all the indirect help they have given to this project.

In 2002, I took a year out from IT to attend Nottingham University Business School. As well as being introduced to many new ideas, I also had the chance to rethink the whole software ...