Around the world, enterprise development teams and other large-scale development organizations are turning to agile methodologies, seeking the major productivity and quality improvements these methods promise. However, large-scale agile development is not easy, and publicly available success stories have been scarce. In this book, agile pioneers at HP present a candid, start-to-finish insider's look at how they've succeeded with agile in one of HP's most important software functions: firmware development for HP LaserJet printers. This book's authors honestly discuss both their successes and failures, presenting actionable lessons for other large-scale development organizations, as well as approaches that have proven themselves repeatedly in HP's challenging environment. Writing for both managers and technologists, they illuminate the benefits of agile in large-scale development - and systematically show how these benefits can actually be achieved. Coverage includes: * A new iterative model of agile management in large-scale development organizations * How to tame the planning beast * How to align agile, enterprise architecture, and business objectives * How to combine continuous integration and automated quality systems to dramatically improve productivity * And much more