Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness

Foreword by Ken Schwaber

Evidence is like a critic, pointing out our shortcomings. We are free to disregard or disbelieve it, or we can investigate and see if there is any merit to what it says.

Software product development is complex. The individual components of people, tools, and transformation of ideas to working software and products have more parts that are unknown or argued over than are known and agreed upon. As they are conglomerated, the result needs to be known to power the heart of empiricism: inspect and adapt.

Given that morass, we need to create the product in short iterations, progressively turning the most important ideas, needs, and requirements into valuable increments that build on each other until the vision is achieved—if ...