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Most Agile books tell you what to do. This one tells you what actually happens when you try to do it — across 25 teams, in a FedRAMP-authorized environment, with 500 people, compliance gates at every turn, and AI reshaping the development lifecycle in real time.

Agile in the Enterprise is a practitioner's field guide to making Agile transformation work in organizations where the textbook answers fall apart. It was written by a development leader who spent years looking for an Agile book that addressed the reality of regulated enterprise software — and couldn't find one. So he wrote it.

This Third Edition covers the full journey: from choosing the right framework for your context (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS) to building cross-functional teams that deliver, running ceremonies that don't waste time, planning and estimating without lying to yourself, setting up CI/CD pipelines with compliance gates, navigating FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 requirements without abandoning agility, integrating AI tools into your SDLC with real measured results, and scaling all of it across a large organization.

What makes this book different:

Every recommendation comes from direct experience — including the mistakes. The book includes 13 professional diagrams, 20+ reference tables, 8 \"From the Field\" sidebars with unfiltered lessons from enterprise transformations, 5 ready-to-use templates, and a 26-term glossary. The AI chapter includes real metrics: AI adoption rates that grew from 25.7% to 44.3%, with measured efficiency gains of 11.2% to 30.9% across development tasks. You won't find those numbers in any other Agile book because most authors aren't running AI-augmented teams yet.

Who this book is for:

Engineering managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, tech leads, and development directors working in enterprise organizations — especially those in regulated industries like government contracting, defense, healthcare, and financial services. If your Definition of Done includes compliance documentation and your deployment pipeline has authorization boundaries, this is the only Agile book written for your reality.

What's new in the Third Edition (2026):

This edition is a complete repositioning from the previous \"Agile Development: The Complete Guide.\" New chapters cover Agile in regulated and compliance environments (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, IL5/IL6), AI-augmented Agile development with real adoption metrics and agent workflows, and a detailed case study of scaling Agile across 25 enterprise teams with before-and-after measurements across eight dimensions. Every existing chapter has been rewritten with deeper anti-pattern analysis, decision frameworks, and field-tested recommendations.

The gap between Agile theory and enterprise reality is enormous. This book lives in that gap.

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