I USED A VERY AGILE approach for writing this book as well as my previous books. It was a team effort of a number of people who worked with me collaboratively as the book was being written to provide feedback and inputs. I particularly want to thank the following people for their contributions to the original edition of this book:

FIRST EDITION

• Erik Gottesman, Director General Management at Sapient—Erik is a significant thought leader in this area. He played a huge role in helping me develop my two previous books on Agile Project Management and provided some good advice and input on this book as well.
• Dr. Michael Hurst, PMO Director at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care—Michael has played a significant role in providing input and advice for both this book and my last book and he also played a key role in providing a case study on Harvard Pilgrim Health Care that is included in this book.
• Andrew Bone, IT Program/PMO director—Andrew did a thorough review of the entire book, provided a number of good comments and inputs, and also sponsored a presentation on the book with the Long Island, New York, PMI Chapter.
• Liza Wood, Senior Production Manager at Warner Bros. Games—Liza also did a thorough review of the entire book on behalf of the PMI Agile Community of Practice and provided a very large number of excellent comments.
• Several companies generously shared case studies with the results of successful Agile implementations:
  • Michael Hurst, Director PMO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care—Michael and Harvard Pilgrim shared the results of a very large and successful enterprise‐level Agile transformation effort of more than 200 projects.
  • Stephanie Stewart(now Davis), Director of Agile Leadership at Valpak—Stephanie and Valpak shared the results of an enterprise‐level implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework at Valpak.
  • Nigel Edwards, Program Manager at General Dynamics, UK—Nigel shared the results of a very large and complex, Agile fixed‐price government contracting effort.

SECOND EDITION

I would particularly like to thank the following individuals who made significant contributions towards completing the second edition of this book:

• Stephan Wohlfahrt, Director, Corporate Project Management at Bosch—Stephan has played a significant thought leadership role at Bosch in championing a modern Agile Project Management approach throughout the whole company for all Bosch Project Managers worldwide. He did a very detailed review of the entire second edition of the book and provided numerous helpful comments and suggestions.
• Dr. Winston Gonzalez, D.M., SPC is an Instructor and Subject Matter Expert for the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University and is also on the Corporate Faculty at Harrisburg University. He teaches a course based on this book and made numerous valuable contributions and suggestions for its content.
• Joe Justice, Chairman of the Board, Agile Business Institute graciously allowed me to summarize some of his very excellent materials on hardware development practices; and, in particular, on his work with Tesla to implement those ideas. Joe is a real thought leader in this area and has made numerous contributions to implementing Agile in a hardware development environment.

I would like to also thank the following individuals who took the time to review an early draft of the second edition of this book and provided very helpful feedback, comments, and suggestions: Kiron D. Bondale, PMP, PMI‐ACP, PSM II, ICP‐ACC, PMI‐RMP, DASSM, DAC, DAVSC, Senior Consultant, World Class Productivity Inc., and Dr. Monica Kay, PMP, Adjunct Professor, Morgan State University.