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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

IT TAKES MORE THAN JUST authors to put words on a page. It starts with friends and family. They encourage us, they tell us our writing is good (even when it's not), they bring us food, they keep us caffeinated. We'd like to thank them for making this book happen.

From Wiley Publishing, we'd like to thank Bob Elliott. Starting with a rough concept, he helped shape the topic to the book you now have in your hands. Special thanks to Kitty Wilson for her editing magic! It's incredible what actual writing talent can do for a book. Thanks to Jeff Langr, who edited during the dark of winter, and Rosemarie Graham, for keeping the book on track.

For technical edits, big thanks to Phil Denoncourt, who validated and challenged our ideas. Chris Bowen, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, was the great connector who introduced the authors when he heard about the project.

We'd like to offer our appreciation to Jim McCarthy, who was Agile before Agile was cool, for an inspirational foreword and a nod to what's possible.

Special thanks to Paul Hacker and SaaS Made Easy for providing us with our TFS infrastructure in the cloud. We used their hosted TFS to write the book and test what we wrote. Never a hiccup. Three authors with Visual Studio and no infrastructure! If you use TFS and would rather not manage a server, we recommend Paul and team at www.saasmadeeasy.com.

Finally, for us: one Scrum coach, one program manager on the Visual Studio team, and one entrepreneur who's shipping ...