ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to Keith Richards and his collaborators for producing an excellent guide to PRINCE2 Agile, and to AXELOS for allowing portions of the guide to be used in this publication.

Continued thanks to the pioneers and thought leaders of the Agile world, most notably Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Alistair Cockburn, Jeff Sutherland, Mike Cohn, Ken Schwaber, and Jim Highsmith, for their passionate work in developing and refining Agile methods over the past two decades.

Thanks also to the small and large organizations worldwide that have shared their Agile experiences, including Nokia Networks^™, Yahoo!^™, Google^™, Microsoft^®, and BT^™.

Special thanks to Vicki Utting and Nicola Day of IT Governance Publishing for their ongoing support and excellent advice. Thanks also to Christopher Wright for his honest and insightful foreword.

Many thanks, as well, to the people who taught me the most about the strategies of the business world over the past 29 years, especially Roland Scornavacca, Tony Robey, Peter Walsh, and Lisa Ruggieri; and to the writers and teachers who inspired me, particularly Richard Leonard for his amazing ability to encourage writers with his humor and enthusiasm.

Finally, my eternal gratitude to my parents, my US family, my Australian family, and my friends, most especially Susan, Michele, Elissa, Janice, and Linda, for continuing to be my sanity check in this world. Most of all, thank you to my husband, David, for 29 years of love and laughter.