Andrew Stellman - Learning Agile Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

Another amazing book by the team of Andrew and Jennifer. Their writing style is engaging, their mastery of all things agile is paramount, and their content is not only comprehensive, its wonderfully actionable.

Grady Booch

IBM Fellow

The biggest obstacle to overcome in building a high-performance agile team is not learning how, but learning why. Helping teams discover the why is the key to unlock their potential for greater commitment and more creative collaboration. With a focus on values and principles Andrew and Jennifer have provided an outstanding tool to help you and your team discover the why. I cant wait to share it.

Todd Webb

Technical Product Leader at a global e-commerce company

While I was already sold on agile, what I learned from Learning Agile will help my efforts to sell agile across my organization. This book provides more than just an engaging way to gain a deep understanding of agiles principles and practices. The easily relatable stories will help make agile compelling to members across your team, so you can begin reaping its rewards.

Mark Denovich

Senior Business Consultant and Head of US development, Centriq Group

An excellent guide for any team member looking to deepen their understanding of agile. Stellman and Greene cover agile values and practices with an extremely clear and engaging writing style. The humor, examples, and clever metaphors offer a refreshing delivery. But where the book really shines is how it pinpoints frequent problems with agile teams, and offers practical advice on how to move forward to achieve deeper results.

Matthew Dundas

CTO, Katori

As an engineer, I always thought the problems that Agile practices help to solve are a direct hit for the industry. As it turns out, becoming Agile is hard; its more than just the practices. A piecemeal approach to Agile gives, as the the authors call it, better-than-not-doing-it results. If you are just getting started, or Agile is only better-than-not-doing-it, Andrew and Jennifer have a lot of practical advice on how to read between the lines of the Agile Manifesto and really become Agile.

James W Grenning

Founder of Wingman Software and co-author of the Agile Manifesto

Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene have done an impressive job putting together a comprehensive, practical resource that is easily accessible for anyone who is trying to get Agile. They cover a lot of ground in Learning Agile, and have taken great care to go beyond simply detailing the behaviors most should expect of Agile teams. In exploring different elements of Agile, the authors present not just the standard practices and desired results, but also common misconceptions, and the positive and negative results they may bring. The authors also explore how specific practices and behaviors might impact individuals in different roles. This book is a great resource for new and experienced Agile practitioners alike.

Dave Prior PMP CST PMI-ACP

Agile Consultant and Trainer

If you want to learn about any of the specific approaches to agile, you need to read the specific relevant books. That means you know what you want to do in advance. Not very agile of you, is it? What Andrew and Jenny have done is create an approachable, relatable, understandable compendium of what agile is. You dont have to decide in advance what your agile approach is. You can read about all of them, and then decide. On your way, you can learn the system of agile and how it works.

Johanna Rothman

Author and Consultant, www.jrothman.com

The culture of a software development team often has a greater impact than their expertise or tools do on the success of their project. Stellman and Greenes advice on how to transform an assortment of fragmented individual perspectives into a collaborative unit with shared values and practices should help any software manager regardless of the organizations official methodology. Their comparison of Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban techniques analyze the many ways in which Agile principles can be applied. The entertaining case studies illustrate the human dilemmasand the rewardsof learning to become Agile.

Patricia Ensworth

President, Harborlight Management Services LLC

Learning Agile is thorough, approachable, practical, and interesting. The values, principles, and methodologies explained in this book are thought-provoking and illuminating, and I look forward to applying them to my teams work.

Sam Kass

Software architect and tech lead in the financial sector

Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene have been there, seen that, bought the T-Shirt, and now written the book! This is a truly fantastic introduction to the major Agile methodologies for software professionals of all levels and disciplines. It will help you understand the common pitfalls faced by development teams, and learn how to avoid them.

Adam Reeve

Engineer and team lead at a major social networking site

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