This is a great book to start if you're interesting in "becoming agile." I've learned various agile practices before but all were piece-meal, and I've taken a 1-day Scrum course also. The teams I was working with all used some agile practices but it didn't really feel like we were benefiting a whole lot from them. This book is really great at explaining why some teams fail at fully going agile and gives great perspective from all different types of roles we face in real-world working conditions. Though some of these examples were contrived, I felt the purpose–and success–of this book was to get across the core values of agile, not so much nailing down every case and edge case.

All in all, a very concise and easy to follow book on how to adopt agile practices today and to set ideals for what your team can become in the future.