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A Brain-Friendly Guide
A Learner’s Companion to
Understanding Agile Principles,
Ideas, and Real-World Practices
Load agile concepts
right into your brain
Boss your code
around with XP
Learn how Scrum
helped Amy keep her
users thrilled
Agile
Head First
®
Unravel the mysteries
of Lean and Kanban
Explore how task boards
and user stories keep
everybody on track
Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene
& Eric Freeman
Elisabeth Robson
Praise for
Head First Agile
“Working
on a great agile team can feel magical. Problems, personality conflicts, and project politics
fall away through the emphasis and focus on delivering something, learning, and delivering again.
But creating such magical teams is hard. It just got easier.
Head First Agile
is the book many of us have
been waiting for. A perfect blend of practical advice, supported by the principles of Scrum, Extreme
Programming, and Kanban,
Head First Agile
can help anyone create a great, magical, agile team.”
— Mike Cohn, Author of
Succeeding with Agile, Agile Estimating and Planning,
and
User Stories Applied
“If you’ve ever worked in a software team, you will immediately relate to the accurate and insightful case
studies in
Head First Agile.
There’s plenty of great advice here that I wish someone had told me earlier in
my career. But regardless of how long you’ve been in the software field, you’re guaranteed to find things
to learn and new ways of looking at old problems. It was a surprise to me to learn how much more
there is to XP than just Pair Programming—and I’m definitely going to be looking at how my team can
benefit from these practices and ideas.”
— Adam Reeve, Principal Architect at RedOwl Analytics
“Head
First Agile
is written in such an easy to digest manner that I found it difficult to put down. Since
the book is written as an interaction between people, instead of just providing facts, I feel I have a much
better understanding of both the principles and practices of Agile.”
— Patrick Cannon, Senior Program Manager, Dell
“Head
First Agile
thoroughly explains some very challenging Agile concepts to successfully pass the PMI-
ACP exam and re-enforces these concepts with meaningful exercises, real-life stories, and brain-teasing
visuals for greater learning retention. The unique format of this book caters to all learning styles and
anyone from beginner to expert will benefit from studying this book. Thank you, Andrew and Jennifer,
for writing another outstanding Head First book!”
— John Steenis, PMP CSM, CSPO
,
“Head
First Agile
is great! I love how the authors are able to explain the subject matter in a fun, easy to
read and understand format. Kudos to Andrew and Jennifer for a job well done!”
— Mark Andrew Bond, Network Operations Project Manager at a higher
education institution
“Members of any software development team, in any capacity, Agile based or not, should read this
Head
First Agile.
Teams that have adopted Agile in “whole” or part will better understand how to improve their
processes. Teams that are not using Agile can really learn what it takes to start the journey to Agile. For me,
this book was a good reflection on projects that succeeded and failed over the last 20 years of my career.”
— Dan Faltyn, Chief Security Officer, BlueMatrix
“Agile has been a buzz word in the industry, which many people talk about and use but without fully
understanding the underlying principles and values behind the practices.
Head First Agile
helps demystify
the topic and provides a superb guide into the Agile journey and mindset.”
— Philip Cheung, Software Developer
Praise for
Head First Agile
“Head
First Agile
shows you that Agile is not a single methodology, but a range of approaches and ways of thinking
about the development lifecycle. This book will guide you to find the method that best fits the needs of your team,
and to understand how to continually improve over time. Approaches like Kanban, where you establish a pull
system by visualizing the workflow and limiting work in progress, can be particularly empowering for teams.”
— Nick Lai, Senior Engineering Manager at Uber Technologies
“What better way to learn about an innovative way to approach work, Agile, than through this ingenious, creative,
and ground-breaking approach to learning that engages the whole mind, emotions, and different learning styles.
Chuck the boring text books of the past and pick up
Head First Agile
for a contemporary and intriguing learning
experience.”
— Tess Thompson, MS, PMP PMI-ACP CSP Agile Transformation Coach and Professor
,
,
at Saint Mary’s University
“Agile can be a very challenging topic for any PM who is schooled in traditional ways of working. The authors
of this book have taken great care to make the topics accessible and they’ve presented the information in a
straightforward, concise way that offers not just valuable information you need to be successful at the PMI-ACP
exam, but more importantly information you need to be successful in applying Agile in a practical setting.”
— Dave Prior, Certified Scrum Trainer, PMP PMI-ACP at LeadingAgile
,
“Head
First Agile
thoroughly explores practical problems and solutions using a wide array of techniques from the
Agile playbook. The authors adeptly explain different types of Agile approaches, providing a great repository of
Agile resources to the reader.”
— Keith Conant, Senior Software Engineer at a payments company
“Head
First Agile
is a great resource because it teaches people not only the practices and methods of Agile, but
more importantly the mindset change. This book is based upon the values and principles outlined in the Agile
Manifesto. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn about Agile delivery.”
— Mike MacIsaac, Scrum Master, MBA, PMP CSM
,
“I am a certified Agile coach at IBM, where I teach and coach people from my organization helping them become
Agile. I found
Head First Agile
to be a great addition to the Agile bookshelves, as well as a wonderful resource to
complement the studies of those professionals preparing for the PMI-ACP exam”
— Renato Barbieri, PMP PMI-ACP Manager, Agile coach, Kepner-Tregoe Program
,
,
Leader at IBM
“I am a Project Manager who used
Head First PMP
to obtain my PMP last year.
Head First Agile
follows the same
concept as
Head First PMP...
visual thinking and learning to understand, comprehend, and retain the concepts.
In a market where quality books for preparation are limited, this was a great resource to have and use for PMI-
ACP exam prep. The practice exam questions and Chapter 7 (including Domain Reviews) were really good
preparation. The whole thing went great, and I passed on my first try!”
— Kelly D. Marce, Project Manager at a financial services firm
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
“Going through this
Head First C#
book was a great experience. I have not come across a book series
which actually teaches you so well…This is a book I would definitely recommend to people wanting to
learn C#”
— Krishna Pala, MCP
“Head
First Web Design
really demystifies the web design process and makes it possible for any web
programmer to give it a try. For a web developer who has not taken web design classes,
Head First Web
Design
confirmed and clarified a lot of theory and best practices that seem to be just assumed in this
industry.”
— Ashley Doughty, senior web developer
“Building websites has definitely become more than just writing code.
Head First Web Design
shows you
what you need to know to give your users an appealing and satisfying experience. Another great Head
First book!”
— Sarah Collings, user experience software engineer
“Head
First Networking
takes network concepts that are sometimes too esoteric and abstract even for highly
technical people to understand without difficulty and makes them very concrete and approachable. Well
done.”
— Jonathan Moore, owner, Forerunner Design
“The big picture is what is often lost in information technology how-to books.
Head First Networking
keeps
the focus on the real world, distilling knowledge from experience and presenting it in byte-size packets
for the IT novitiate. The combination of explanations with real-world problems to solve makes this an
excellent learning tool.”
— Rohn Wood, senior research systems analyst, University of Montana

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