Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point
by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Acknowledgments
In February of 2001, a small group of people who were passionate about software development met at the Snowbird ski resort near Salt Lake City, Utah. At this famous meeting, the Agile Manifesto was born. A November 2001 meeting in Chicago led to the incorporation of Agile Alliance “to provide an unbiased forum within which the community can freely work to discuss, promote, and improve agile development processes.”1 Both before and after these momentous events, many people worked tirelessly to change the frame through which software development is perceived and the way in which software developers work. As unlikely as it seemed at the time, agile development approaches have become mainstream methods, and the more urgent problem ...
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