Epilogue
We have traveled to many countries since we finished this book: Australia, China, England, Estonia, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Vietnam—as well as our own USA. In location after location, we have found that agile development has been widely adopted in the software world. And generally speaking, the results have been positive: higher-quality software is being delivered to customers quite a bit faster than before.
But there is a problem. Many customers are underwhelmed; agile methods often fail to deliver significantly improved business results. And many agile development team members are underwhelmed as well. Agile practices are usually not thought of as engaging and challenging—it’s difficult ...
Get The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
