Acknowledgments

All books are collaborative efforts, and this one is no exception. Many people have contributed ideas, reviews, comments, and inspiration that have helped me turn my ideas about agile project management into the reality of this book.

Although I take full responsibility for the content of this second edition book, I had a wonderful group of advisors and reviewers who contributed significant time and effort to turning my drafts into a final product. I owe a tremendous thanks to Ken Collier for long conversations over morning coffee, and to Kent McDonald, Israel Gat, Jean Tabaka, and Sanjive Augustine. Israel Gat, in particular, provided a valuable senior executive’s perspective.

Many people contributed to the material in this book. They include Mike Cohn, Ken Delcol, Jeff DeLuca, Luke Hohmann, J. R. Jenks, Martyn Jones, Michael Mah, Anne Mullaney, Michele Marchesi, Lynne Nix, Norm Kerth, Scott Ambler, Doug DeCarlo, Ed Yourdon, Josh Kerievsky, Borys Stokalski, Peter George, Bartek Kiepuszewski, Tim Lister, Kent Beck, Donna Fitzgerald, Glen Alleman, Todd Little, Rob Austin, Ken Orr, Don Olson, Tom DeMarco, Sam Bayer, Kevin Tate, Gary Walker, Paul Young, David Spann, Alistair Cockburn, Pollyanna Pixton, Ole Jepsen, Greg Reiser, Roy Singham, Robin Gibson, Lynda Belhoucine, Bob Charette, Christopher Avery, and Preston Smith.

Special thanks goes to Karen Coburn, president of the Cutter Consortium, for her support and permission to include material I wrote for various Cutter publications in this book.

Finally my thanks to executive editor Chris Guzikowski at Addison-Wesley for his support and encouragement.