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If you're building software today, mastering agile development is no longer optional. With 80% of software companies using some form of agility, collaborating on agile teams is an essential skill for high-performing engineers, tech entrepreneurs, or anyone working in the software industry. Agile Discovery & Delivery walks readers through the key concepts of agility from start to finish. From how agile teams figure out what to build to how they collaborate to build it. It's the perfect agile development overview for anyone new to the industry. Agile Discovery & Delivery helps you: Understand the agile principles and why they're so important for building great products Contribute to and/or form high-performing, fun agile teams Determine what to build using techniques like Lean Start-up, Design Thinking, and Google Design Sprints Interview your target customers to gain valuable product insights Write great user stories Master key agile delivery frameworks like Scrum and Kanban Understand how to estimate, pair program, branch & merge, and work in a scaled agile environment Survive and thrive on agile teams with actionable tips in every section Written especially for engineers and start-up founders, even those in marketing, support, sales, and leadership will walk away with a better understanding for how their product teams work. Give yourself a head start in the tech industry with this book.

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"""Are you building the right thing? Success or failure hinges on building the right product or service with features that will add business and organizational value. Amber provides an invaluable guide to juxtapose and balance discovering the right product elements in parallel with rapid delivery. Her practical roadmap, based extensive real-life experience and thoughtful consideration, is a bright and must-read beacon for those early in their agile journey."" - Sanjiv Augustine, Founder & CEO, Lithespeed & Agile Leadership Academy ""Every time I open the book, I find something immediately relevant to the problems I'm dealing with. It's the kind of thing you never actually stop reading, you just keep coming back for reference. It's also been kind of fun to grow with the book. I re-read the passage about discovery and testing key assumptions after 6 months and realized 'hey, I did that and it worked!'"" - Clayton Custer, Co-Founder, EduReality, Inc ""Amber created an incredible capstone class in the CS department here at UW-Madison. Students love it! This book bottles up the magic of her class and makes it available to all. Anyone practicing the art and science of software construction will benefit from reading (and re-reading) it."" - Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Professor & Chair, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison ""The author says this is the book she wished she'd had when she graduated with an engineering degree in 2005 and I believe it! It's a fantastic overview of agile software development. It's a great grad gift for anyone who has studied engineering, and I think it'd also be valuable to anyone who works with teams to create a product for an end user. Besides thoroughly explaining and exploring agile principles and philosophy, she has priceless insights on lean startup and design thinking. She talks about Google design sprints and tells what self-selection is, how it benefits both people and companies, how it works, and how it can be accomplished efficiently to create well-rounded teams. Her explanation of how best to use scrum and kanban is invaluable, too, saving the reader a ton of time learning the hard way how best to use these tools. Easy to imagine this book becoming THE must-read for all young or new engineers."" - Courtney Daniels ""Amber Field does an excellent job of detailing the most important fundamental items for new software engineers and tech entrepreneurs to know especially when working on projects with their business partners. It's the 'knowing what the others don't know' is essential for helping to get clear with their project partners how best to detail and articulate what's essential, what can wait, and what is out of scope (in a nice explaining way!) for a particular project. Essential read for success in this project discipline area."" - Joyce Sullivan ""As a team coach, I work with tech teams a lot, most of them Agile-based. But I'm not a tech professional and I was always feeling like I needed to understand their work better. This book has given me the knowledge and understanding I'd been trying to get for years. I'd even taken a course on Agile principles on Udemy, which was ok. But Amber's book is way more engaging and easy to follow. It's comprehensive, as it covers the different frameworks and how they each operate. On top of it all, it's clear, amazingly well written, and breezy to read. For anyone curious about Agile, with or without further technical knowledge, this is a must read."" - Carolina Perez"

""Are you building the right thing? Success or failure hinges on building the right product or service with features that will add business and organizational value. Amber provides an invaluable guide to juxtapose and balance discovering the right product elements in parallel with rapid delivery. Her practical roadmap, based extensive real-life experience and thoughtful consideration, is a bright and must-read beacon for those early in their agile journey."" - Sanjiv Augustine, Founder & CEO, Lithespeed & Agile Leadership Academy ""Every time I open the book, I find something immediately relevant to the problems I'm dealing with. It's the kind of thing you never actually stop reading, you just keep coming back for reference. It's also been kind of fun to grow with the book. I re-read the passage about discovery and testing key assumptions after 6 months and realized 'hey, I did that and it worked!'"" - Clayton Custer, Co-Founder, EduReality, Inc ""Amber created an incredible capstone class in the CS department here at UW-Madison. Students love it! This book bottles up the magic of her class and makes it available to all. Anyone practicing the art and science of software construction will benefit from reading (and re-reading) it."" - Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Professor & Chair, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison ""The author says this is the book she wished she'd had when she graduated with an engineering degree in 2005 and I believe it! It's a fantastic overview of agile software development. It's a great grad gift for anyone who has studied engineering, and I think it'd also be valuable to anyone who works with teams to create a product for an end user. Besides thoroughly explaining and exploring agile principles and philosophy, she has priceless insights on lean startup and design thinking. She talks about Google design sprints and tells what self-selection is, how it benefits both people and companies, how it works, and how it can be accomplished efficiently to create well-rounded teams. Her explanation of how best to use scrum and kanban is invaluable, too, saving the reader a ton of time learning the hard way how best to use these tools. Easy to imagine this book becoming THE must-read for all young or new engineers."" - Courtney Daniels ""Amber Field does an excellent job of detailing the most important fundamental items for new software engineers and tech entrepreneurs to know especially when working on projects with their business partners. It's the 'knowing what the others don't know' is essential for helping to get clear with their project partners how best to detail and articulate what's essential, what can wait, and what is out of scope (in a nice explaining way!) for a particular project. Essential read for success in this project discipline area."" - Joyce Sullivan ""As a team coach, I work with tech teams a lot, most of them Agile-based. But I'm not a tech professional and I was always feeling like I needed to understand their work better. This book has given me the knowledge and understanding I'd been trying to get for years. I'd even taken a course on Agile principles on Udemy, which was ok. But Amber's book is way more engaging and easy to follow. It's comprehensive, as it covers the different frameworks and how they each operate. On top of it all, it's clear, amazingly well written, and breezy to read. For anyone curious about Agile, with or without further technical knowledge, this is a must read."" - Carolina Perez

Author Information

Amber Field is the Vice President of Software Development at Singlewire Software and teaches the Computer Science Capstone course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been an engineer, agile coach, and leader at a number of organizations including IBM, National Geographic, Oracle Utilities (formerly Opower), and Capital One. Amber frequently speaks at conferences and blogs at amberrfield.com. She lives in Madison, WI.

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