Real World Agility: Practical Guidance for Agile Practitioners

Foreword

Real World Agility provides us with a clear and simple Baedeker to the sometimes strange and often baffling world of Agile.

It will be particularly useful to anyone coming into the world of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean who is finding it a disconcerting and even baffling experience. There is a lot of weird terminology that is not taught in business schools, at least not yet. There are in-jokes about things that you are supposed to know but somehow don’t. You are finding some things being done in ways that are the opposite of what you have seen in other organizations. You may have heard that Agile is not for the faint of heart, and yes, you are finding that some aspects of Agile are indeed difficult. You are sensing that some parts of ...