Head First Agile

Praise for Head First Agile

“Working on a great agile team can feel magical. Problems, personality conflicts, and project politics fall away through the emphasis and focus on delivering something, learning, and delivering again. But creating such magical teams is hard. It just got easier. Head First Agile is the book many of us have been waiting for. A perfect blend of practical advice, supported by the principles of Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Kanban, Head First Agile can help anyone create a great, magical, agile team.”

— Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile, Agile Estimating and Planning, and User Stories Applied

“If you’ve ever worked in a software team, you will immediately relate to the accurate and insightful case studies in Head First Agile. There’s plenty of great advice here that I wish someone had told me earlier in my career. But regardless of how long you’ve been in the software field, you’re guaranteed to find things to learn and new ways of looking at old problems. It was a surprise to me to learn how much more there is to XP than just Pair Programming—and I’m definitely going to be looking at how my team can benefit from these practices and ideas.”

— Adam Reeve, Principal Architect at RedOwl Analytics

“Head First Agile is written in such an easy to digest manner that I found it difficult to put down. Since the book is written as an interaction between people, instead of just providing facts, I feel I have a much better understanding of both the principles ...