The most agile teams we know of are consistently delivering the highest business value the fastest, and over the longest period. The most agile teams do seem to be the most efficient. But agility is not easy. While built on a set of very simple concepts, agility represents a fundamentally different way of doing business. High levels of agility require a substantial commitment to education and training, new tools and techniques, patient transition, and cultural change. This commitment must flow from management downward, and from the team upward.

This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a team of approximately 40 people and how they continuously improved their process over a year's time.

The hype has settled down a bit over these past five years. Many games developed using agile practices, mainly those in the Scrum framework, have shipped. There has been more than enough time to understand how much agile can really help a game team. It's time to look at what is emerging from agile game development teams.