This website serves as a preview to the book Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn. Please take a look
around, download draft chapters, and then help by providing feedback. Your help in making this book the
best that it can be is greatly appreciated.
I'm hoping to finish the book in the spring and have it available in late Summer or Fall 2009.
You can stay up to date on the book or discuss it by joining the
Succeeding With Agile Yahoo group.
Latest News
1st
June
A Few Chapters Will Be Coming Back
Based on feedback, I am going to repost a few heavily revised chapters. I'm starting today with
Chapter 2 ("Iterating Toward Agility") which is available through 15 June. I will need your comments
on this chapter by then. If you can help by reading this chapter, please, please do so and then
mail me your comments. Thanks.
| Chapter |
Download |
Feedback Deadline |
| Part 1: Getting Started |
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| 1. |
Why Transitioning to Agile Is Hard |
Download until 23 June |
23 June |
| 2. |
Iterating Toward Agility |
Download until 15 June |
15 June |
| 3. |
ADAPTing to Agile |
No longer available |
Passed |
| 4. |
Patterns for Adopting Agile |
No longer available |
Passed |
| 5. |
The First Iteration |
No longer available |
Passed |
| Part 2: Individuals |
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| 6. |
Overcoming Resistance, Waterfallacies and Agilephobias |
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Passed |
| 7. |
New Roles |
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| 8. |
Changed Roles |
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| 9. |
Technical Practices |
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| Part 3: Teams |
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| 10. |
Team Structure |
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| 11. |
Teamwork |
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| 12. |
Leading a Self-Organizing Team |
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| 13. |
The Product Backlog |
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| 14. |
Sprints |
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| 15. |
Planning |
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| 16. |
Quality |
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| Part 4: The Organization |
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| 17. |
Scaling Agile |
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| 18. |
Distributed Teams |
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| 19. |
Mixing Agile with Waterfall, Governanace & Compliance |
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| 20. |
Human Resources, Facilities and the PMO |
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| 21. |
Patterns for Spreading Agile |
Coming Soon |
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| Part 5: Next Steps |
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| 22. |
Seeing How Far You've Come |
No longer available |
Passed |
| 23. |
You're Not Done Yet |
Coming Soon |
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Previous News
8th
April
Chapter 15 is Available
The Planning chapter is now available, leaving only two to go. I'm taking a break from those two
though while I incorporate the huge amount of feedback I've received from all of you. I really
appreciate it. I'm going chapter by chapter making revisions right now. It takes about two full days
per chapter. Thank you very much for all the feedback you've sent so far. I look forward to your
thoughts on this chapter and the remaining two as soon as I can post them.
26th
February
The End Is in Sight (But I Have Good Eyes)
Woohoo! The end is in sight. OK, it's only the end of the complete first draft, but...
Actually, the book is further along than that may imply. Some of the chapters have been through
as many as four full drafts already. Many chapters still need a lot of work, but with
all the helpful feedback I've received (thank you!), things are looking pretty good. I've
had the right mix of "Yuk, this section sucks" and "That's a great way to explain this"
that I'm feeling good and looking forward to going back through all the prior chapters. First,
though there are two more to write, one to tweak a bit before posting and four new chapters
available now. As always, thank you so much for your help.
26th
January
I forgot to mention the Yahoo! group
Whoops. In moving to the new site, I forgot to include a
link to Yahoo group where I
announce new chapters and where you can share feedback and discuss the book.
10th
January
New website
The observant among you will notice that this is a new look to the website. I changed things up a bit because
from here on, I'll probably be posting single chapters rather than full parts of the book. I wanted to be able
to indicate chapter-specific deadlines for downloads and feedback; a new format for the site just made that easier
to do. That said, Chapter 14 ("Quality") is now available. I'll have a handful of other chapters posted within
a week. Thanks for your patience and I look forward to your thoughts on these new chapters.
3rd
January
Thanks for All the Feedback so Far
Thank you to everyone who has provided comments on parts one and two. I've got over 4-1/2 feet of printed
feedback to work through and incorporate, so I'll be busy with that for awhile. I'm going to try to find a
way for parts three and four to work with feedback without having to print it first. That will be a change
to my normal workflow but hopefully I can figure an approach out. There will be two benefits: we'll save some
trees and I'll be able to work on feedback while on the road, which is quite hard to do today.
