contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- 1 Why Agile Now? -- 2 What Is Agile? -- 3 Where Did Agile Ideas Originate? -- 4 What Are Agile Practices and How Do They Work? -- 5 What Are Some More Agile Concepts? -- 6 Should My Projects Be Agile? -- 7 How Does an Agile Team Get Started? -- 8 How Do Agile Teams Estimate? -- 9 What Agile Tools Are Important? -- 10 How Does Agile Scale to the Enterprise Level? -- 11 How Do I Work With Distributed Teams? -- 12 What Do I Use for Agile Documentation? -- 13 What Needs to Change in My Own Skill Set? -- 14 What Needs to Change in My Business Skill Sets? -- 15 What Shifts in Business Will Affect Me? -- 16 What Changes Are Needed in My Organization? -- 17 What Are Scrum, XP, and DSDM? -- 18 What Are Lean, Kanban, Crystal, and Other Agile Practices? -- 19 How Do I Jumpstart Change? -- 20 Who Has Made Agile Work? -- 21 Parting Advice -- Glossary Terms -- Index.