Do you want to "Build the Right Product and Build the Product Right"? With Agile and CM you can. Agile is the facilitator of change to ensure you are building the right product while CM is the enabler of change to ensure you are building the product right. This unique book is the first of its kind that combines discussions on both CM and Agile. When done properly, CM provides right level of control for Agile projects to maintain and increase its high level of velocity. CM for Agile can be a very powerful combination when done effectively.

How can it help you?
Aimed at all levels of professionals in the Agile, Configuration Management (CM), Project
Management, Product Management, and Development fields, this book provides very tangible support for Agile teams and insightful concepts and concrete guidance on tailoring CM for Agile methods while maintaining CM principles and allowing minimal structure needed for Agile projects to continue to run fast. What are some unique and beneficial features of this book that can help you:

* Introductory primer on both CM and Agile
* Extensive and insightful information on how CM and Agile can work together

* Intermediate to advanced level information on how to adapt CM to best support projects using the Agile methodology. Inside, learn how to adapt:
o Continuous Integration and Build applying notions of bit-­‐size tasks, right-­‐sizing branches, minimizing merging, emphasizing continuous build, and testing with teeth.
o CM Planning moving away from big-­‐effort-­‐up-­‐front (BEUF) to a more evolutionary approach, applying an iteration 0 to get started, adapting CM roles and responsibilities, and using wikis and other CM formats.
o CM to support more effective Refactoring, Pair Programming, and Test Driven Development (TDD), Traceability, Baselines, Problem Management, CM Audit, and CM Reporting and lean metrics.
o CM to support Distributed Development for Agile teams when co-­‐location is not an option by performing a distributed an