Like many first-time authors, I didn’t realize I had a book in me until others provided encouragement. The writing was an arduous process that I wouldn’t have completed without the support of colleagues, friends, and family.
Interestingly, my most formative Agile experiences occurred long before Agile became a thing. The late Jim Carbonara, whom I cite in the book’s introduction, provided a seminal Agile working environment early in my career. A few years later at a startup called Roadshow International, I worked for a superb Vice President of Engineering, Annie Bernstein, who instinctively broke big problems into small ones and had us work iteratively. The President and CEO of Roadshow, the late Don Soults, provided my first ...
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