Real World Agility: Practical Guidance for Agile Practitioners

Preface

“What is the one burning question that you have on your mind about Agile/Scrum right now?”

For more than eight years I have been coaching and training individuals, teams, and organizations in Agile product development, and I have noticed that in spite of the vast number of books on various topics in Agile, people still have questions that seem to be unanswered. I became intrigued with the idea of capturing these questions to see if there was anything that I could do with them. Are there any patterns? Any usable data that could be crunched and used?

I started using the game of “35” to elicit these questions from class attendees, workshop attendees, user group meetings, etc., and then adding them to my question bank in Excel. The result ...