Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012

Foreword

By 2001, the software industry was in trouble—more projects were failing than succeeding. Customers began demanding contracts with penalties, and increasingly sending work offshore. Some software developers, though, had increasing success with a development process known as “lightweight.” Almost uniformly, these processes were based on the well-known iterative, incremental process.

In February of 2001, these developers issued a manifesto—the Agile Manifesto. The Manifesto called for Agile software development based on 4 principle values and 12 underlying principles. Two of the principles were 1.) to satisfy customers through early and continuous delivery of working software, and 2). to deliver working software frequently, from a couple ...