<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Extensively tested in both academic and corporate settings, this is the ideal instructional resource for everyone new to agile development: students, software practitioners, and managers. Drawing on extensive experience helping software teams deploy and succeed with agile, Sondra Ashmore and Kristin Runyan bring together all the concepts, vocabulary, techniques, and implications of the agile paradigm. Packed with examples, case studies, and use cases, <B> <I>Introduction to Agile</I> </B> covers all this, and more:</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">The history, cause, and value of the shift to agile development</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">How agile and waterfall methods compare -- and a clear assessment of the tradeoffs</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">How agile, iterative development projects really work</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Key roles on agile projects</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Agile approaches to requirements, planning, tracking, reporting, testing, quality, and integration</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Key agile methods: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Crystal, Feature Driven Development (FDD), Lean, and Dynamic Sysems Development Method (DSDM)</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Implications for IT -- and the rest of the organization</DIV> </LI> </UL>