The Agile Software Development Series

A gile software development centers on four values, which are identified in the Agile Alliance's Manifesto: 1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools 2. Working software over comprehensive documentation 3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation 4. Responding to change over following a plan The development of Agile software requires innovation and responsiveness, based on generating and sharing knowledge within a development team and with the customer. Agile software developers draw on the strengths of customers, users, and developers to find just enough process to balance quality and agility. The books in The Agile Software Development Series focus on sharing the experiences of such Agile developers. Individual books address individual techniques (such as Use Cases), group techniques (such as collaborative decision making), and proven solutions to different problems from a variety of organizational cultures. The result is a core of Agile best practices that will enrich your experiences and improve your work. Visit informit.com /agileseries for a complete list of available publications. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and Addison-Wesley, Inc. was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed with initial capital letters or in all capitals. The authors and publisher have taken care in the preparation of this book, but they make no expressed or implied warranty of any kind and assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or conse-quential damages in connection with or arising out of the use of the information or programs contained herein. In February 2001, when " Agile " was adopted as the umbrella word for methodol-ogies such as Extreme Programming, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, Scrum, and others, the industrial heritage of agile buzzed around in the background. Womack, Jones, and Roos's The Machine That Changed the World, Smith and Reinertsen's Developing Products in Half the Time, and Womack and Jones's Lean Thinking have resided on my bookshelf for years. The Agility Forum was founded by manufacturers in the early 1990s. The extensive literature on agile and lean industrial product development influenced my work on Adaptive Software Development. But in Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck take lean industrial practices to a new level—they tell us how to apply them directly to software development. It is one thing to read about value stream mapping in a …