Mario Moreira - Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile

BEING AGILE

YOUR ROADMAP TO SUCCESSFUL ADOPTION OF AGILE

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Mario E. Moreira

Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile

Copyright 2013 by Mario E. Moreira

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The Apress Business Team

I dedicate this book to two fine ladies and
grandes dames who have given life to me and my
family and a raison dtre

Floy and Sajida

I also dedicate this book to all of those agile
enthusiasts who understand that they need to not
only do Agile but eventually to be Agile to gain
the business benefits that Agile can bring.

Contents

About the Author

Mario E. Moreira is an enterprise change agent who has worked in the Agile field since 1998. He is a certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Scrum Professional (CSP) with Scrum, XP, and Kanban experience in the context of enterprise-level Agile transformations, coaching, and team-building. He was Senior Director for Agile and Configuration Management at CA Technologies.

As an IT professional in the networking, communications, product, open source, and financial industries for over 20 years, Moreira has experience in software configuration management, project management, software quality assurance, requirements engineering, architecture, and IT governance. He served as Vice President of Engineering and Methodologies at Fidelity Investments.

Moreira is the author of Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams, Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap, and Agile for Dummies. He is a writer for Agile Journal, a columnist for CM Crossroads Journal, a blogger at Agile Adoption Roadmap ( cmforagile.blogspot.com ), and a regular speaker on Agile topics at US and European conferences.

Acknowledgments

I want to especially thank Robert Hutchinson, Rita Fernando, and Jeffrey Pepper at Apress for their encouragement, patience, attention to detail, and support in helping me make this book a reality.

To all of the many Agile champions who contributed to my surveys and provided feedback to my Agile articlesthank you for helping me understand Agile from so many points of view.

To all my readersthank you for making a commitment to be Agile and for striving to adapt your culture toward an Agile mindset aligning with Agile values and principles.