My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”
(Author of The Art of Agile Development here.) Lots of negativity in this thread. I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m surprised. For what it&#x27;s worth, I mostly agree with the negativity—&quot;Agile,&quot; as commonly practiced, tends to be terrible. That&#x27;s part of why I wrote the new edition.<p>I say as much in the first paragraphs of the book:<p>&gt; Agile is everywhere. And paradoxically, nowhere.<p>&gt; In the 20 years after the Agile freight train roared into software developers’ consciousness, the number of companies calling themselves “Agile” increased by orders of magnitude. The number of teams <i>actually</i> taking an agile approach to their work? Not so much. “Agile,” the easily repeated name, is enormously successful. The ideas behind Agile—well, most of <i>them</i> are ignored.<p>&gt; Let’s fix that.<p>If anybody would like to talk about the book, I&#x27;m happy to engage. If you&#x27;re curious about the book, the first three chapters are currently up for free on my website, and there&#x27;s a lot of excerpts from the remaining chapters posted too. Follow the links in the table of contents at the bottom of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jamesshore.com&#x2F;v2&#x2F;books&#x2F;aoad2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jamesshore.com&#x2F;v2&#x2F;books&#x2F;aoad2</a>.