Praise for Head First Agile Your name could be here! We’re looking for early praise from project managers, developers, business anaylsts, and anyone else who’s read the early release of our book. Contact us at [email protected]. Praise for Head First Agile Your name could be here! We’re looking for early praise from project managers, developers, business anaylsts, and anyone else who’s read the early release of our book. Contact us at [email protected]. Praise for other Head First books “With Head First C#, Andrew and Jenny have presented an excellent tutorial on learning C#. It is very approachable while covering a great amount of detail in a unique style. If you’ve been turned off by more conventional books on C#, you’ll love this one.” —Jay Hilyard, software developer, coauthor of C# 3.0 Cookbook “I’ve never read a computer book cover to cover, but this one held my interest from the first page to the last. 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The combination of explanations with real-world problems to solve makes this an excellent learning tool.” — R ohn Wood, senior research systems analyst, University of Montana Other related books from O’Reilly Learning Agile Beautiful Teams Applied Software Project Management Making Things Happen Practical Development Environments Process Improvement Essentials Other books in O’Reilly’s Head First series Head First PMP Head First C# Head First Java Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA&D) Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML Head First Design Patterns Head First Servlets and JSP Head First EJB Head First SQL Head First Software Development Head First JavaScript Head First Physics Head First Statistics Head First Ajax Head First Rails Head First Algebra Head First PHP & MySQL Head First Web Design Head First Networking Head First Agile Wouldn’t it be dreamy if there were a book to help me learn about agile that was more fun than going to the dentist? It’s probably nothing but a fantasy… Andrew Stellman Jennifer Greene Head First Agile by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene Copyright © 2016 Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly Media books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribooksonline.com). For more information, contact our corporate/ institutional sales department: (800) 998-9938 or [email protected]. Series Creators: Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates Editor: Nan Barber Design Editor: Louise Barr Cover Designers: Karen Montgomery, Louise Barr Production Editors: Melanie Yarbrough Indexer: Bob Pfahler Proofreader: Rachel Monaghan Page Viewers: Quentin the whippet and Tequila the pomeranian Printing History: January 2017: First Edition. 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We really love …because we know writing about this stuff, and you’re going to do we hope you get a kick out of great work with reading it… agile! Andrew Photo by Nisha Sondhe Jenny Andrew Stellman is a developer, architect, speaker, agile coach, project manager, and expert in building better software. Andrew is an author and international speaker, with top-selling books in software development and project management, and world-recognized Jennifer Greene is an agile coach, expert in transforming and improving development manager, business analyst, project software organizations, teams, and code. He manager, tester, speaker, and authority on has architected and built large-scale software software engineering practices and principles. systems, managed large international software She’s been building software for over twenty teams, and consulted for companies, schools, and years in many different domains including media, corporations, including Microsoft, the National finance, and IT consulting. She’s worked with Bureau of Economic Research, Bank of America, teams of excellent developers and testers to tackle Notre Dame, and MIT. Andrew’s had the tough technical problems and focused her career privilege of working with some pretty amazing on finding and fixing the habitual process issues programmers during that time, and likes to think that crop up along the way. that he’s learned a few things from them. 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Principles and practices ? 2 Organizations, constraints, and projects: In good company ? 3 The process framework: It all fits together ? 4 Project integration management: Getting the job done ? 5 Scope management: Doing the right stuff ? 6 Time management: Getting it done on time ? 7 Cost management: Watching the bottom line ? 8 Quality management: Getting it right ? 9 Human resource management: Getting the team together ? Table of Contents (the real thing) Intro Your brain on agile. Here you are trying to learn something, while here your brain is doing you a favor by making sure the learning doesn’t stick. Your brain’s thinking, “Better leave room for more important things, like which wild animals to avoid and whether naked snowboarding is a bad idea.” So how do you trick your brain into thinking that your life depends on knowing enough to really “get” agile—and maybe even get through the PMI-ACP certification exam? Who is this book for? xx We know what you’re thinking xxi Metacognition: thinking about thinking xxiii Here’s what YOU can do to bend your brain into submission xxii Read me xxvi The technical review team xxvii Acknowledgments xxviii ix