Book Review: Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World (Smith, Sidky)
Another book bites the dust and hits the “read” shelf. This time around is was “ Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World ” by Greg Smith and Ahmed Sidky. What is this book about? This book is designed for the people that are generally currently stuck in waterfall (or some other prehistoric software development methodology) and wish to adopt a more agile process. Smith and Sidky then aim to arm the reader with knowledge and tools to overcome the common pitfalls in agile adoption and answer the difficult questions posed by PHB’s and the like. It covers the common practices and key concepts that are used in agile teams such as the daily standup, iteration planning, estimation, retrospectives and roles and responsibilities. What is this book NOT about? This book is not really for those that are already working in an agile time and looking for new ideas to improve their methodology some more. It does not go into great detail on the specifics of major methodologies (which are agil