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All the time I hear people talking about software projects as journeys, and I think they are implying that software projects are not just journeys, but they are journeys into the unknown. We start with funding from a sponsor, muster together a stout-hearted crew, head out in what we guess might be a useful direction, and the rest is The Odyssey. We live the tales of the brave Odysseus: tales of Lotus Eaters, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, and Calypso. We succeed or fail only with the help or rage of the gods. How wonderfully romantic, and how perfectly silly. I think that the more appropriate analogy along this line is the project as an expedition. We have a goal or a short list of goals. We have some well-proven maps; we have some vaguer ones, too. We have the advice and journals from those who have been out there and made it back to tell their stories. We don’t walk out the door and face the unknown; but on the other hand, there are some big question marks, and these bring us into a high-risk position. We accept these risks, because if the expedition can succeed there are surely significant rewards. We have skills, but there are uncertainties. How do we deal with this? I recommend that we look back, oh, about 300 years, to the York Factory on Hudson Bay in Canada. At that time this was the headquarters of the Hudson Bay Company. The Hudson Bay Company’s main line of business was to be the supplier of all necessary provisions for fur traders going out on, you guessed it, expeditions, from Hudson Bay. The fur traders developed a great way to start an expedition, and it was called “The Hudson Bay Start.” Having done their one-stop shopping at The Company, the fur traders would go out of Hudson Bay only a mile or two and set up camp. Why? Certainly not to set up traps; they wanted to discover what they forgot to bring while they were less than an hour’s hike back into town! Being the excellent project person that you are, you know that for the vast majority of time the leather-faced expert fur trader would reappear for another shopping trip. What the heck does all this have to do with the book in your hands right now? With Succeeding with Agile, Mike Cohn has delivered The Hudson Bay Start for agile development. This is it. This is a weather-beaten experienced fur trapper giving you the checklist to work through before you begin your expedition. By reading this book, you will find that Mike brings up issues that you never thought of, offers advice on how you might handle situations, and helps you define