What’s Inside?

You’ll explore ways to organize and conduct liftoff meetings. You’ll learn to appreciate the vital step of agile chartering for teams. You’ll find real-life In Practice stories of how others have helped teams start (or restart). You’ll discover a variety of team activities to fuel your liftoff. You’ll see how to lead liftoffs step by step. You can imagine the payoff you can gain from intentional team liftoff activities. You can adopt a framework for effective, just-enough agile team chartering.

We organized the book so that you can choose an approach to reading it that fits best for you. If you read it cover to cover, you’ll find a thorough exploration of why liftoffs matter and read stories that show how liftoff activities have fared in practice. You’ll learn how to lead a liftoff, and you’ll discover how agile chartering fits into starting teams well.

The book also has its own page on The Pragmatic Programmers website,^[1] where you can find an interactive discussion forum as well as a place to submit errata.