Learning Agile

Preface

Acknowledgments

We wrote this book to help you learn agile—but we didn’t do it alone. First and foremost, we want to thank our fantastic editor, Mary Treseler. She championed this project from the day we first discussed it with her in an Indian restaurant in downtown Manhattan all the way through to the finished book that you’re reading today. She’s been an important part of everything we’ve done with O’Reilly, and we couldn’t have done this without her.

We’d also like to thank other friends at O’Reilly, without whom this would not be possible: Mike Hendrickson, Laurie Petrycki, Tim O’Reilly, Ally MacDonald, Andy Oram, Nicole Shelby, and especially Marsee Henon, Sara Peyton, Kathryn Barrett, and all of the fantastic press and PR folks in Sebastopol.

We want to thank Mike Cohn for his wonderful foreword, as well as the really good advice he’s given us over the years. We also want to thank him for his great books, because we learned a lot from them! We’d also like to thank David Anderson for giving us some really excellent feedback on Chapters 8 and 9. We want to thank Grady Booch, Scott Ambler, James Grenning, Scott Berkun, Steve McConnell, Karl Wiegers, Johanna Rothman, Patricia Ensworth, Tommy Tarka, Keoki Andrus, Neil Siegel, Karl Fogel, and Auke Jilderda for giving us some really good material and input over the years, especially in Beautiful Teams—and especially Barry Boehm, not only for contributing a really fantastic story to that book, but more importantly for ...