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Today, I am excited to announce the publishing of my first book "CASE: Continuous Agile Software Engineering", now available in Kindle, Paperback, and Hardcover editions on Amazon. This book documents my best practices and methodologies for engineering software that has allowed me to produce high quality software and features at a rate of productivity that has consistently been 10 to 100+ times higher than that of teams and peers I have worked with who used Scrum, Sprints, and other Agile methodologies.

See my accouncement blog for more details.

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Erik Gassler is a deeply passionate, self-taught software engineer with expertise in true agile development practices and continuous delivery workflows that enable developers and development teams to produce and push quality, test-proven code and features to production environments multiple times per day.

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I've worked with and talked to several teams that have been under the misconception that they are doing Agile development because they are using CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps and workflows involving Scrum and Sprints.

These are tools and concepts that can be used within an agile environment, but using them does not mean you are doing Agile development.

I have yet to talk to a team who uses Scrum that I do not firmly believe would see a productivity improvement by at least a factor of 10 by incorporating my Continuous Agile Software Engineering standards - and the teams I've recently worked directly in at Microsoft, Floating Point Group, and Costco, I firmly believe the improvement would have been closer to a factor of 100.

A software engineer who is constantly striving to improve himself, his craft, and his peers by constantly seeking to improve knowledge, understandings, standards, and workflows to maximize the productivity and quality of output for himself and his team.

Erik's peers frequently comment on his ability to think outside-the-box, as he is someone who believes in analyzing each problem for what it is and following scientific, data-driven principals to do the best that he can and get the best from his team, rather than following herd-mentality thinking with trendy and often detrimental "industry standard" tools and frameworks.

Erik believes in speaking out against decisions and practices that hinder, erode, or otherwise degrade the product or efficiencies in building and maintaining software.

Erik's peers have frequently shared being impressed with his abilities to debug issues, even from projects he's done no previous work in. As well as his ability to take over projects that other developers have spent months on, and finishing them within as little as a few days or weeks, even when it is deemed necessary to restart a project from scratch rather than continue from the previous work done.

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Erik has recognized a trend in modern companies to misunderstand what agile development is and use inferior frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, Sprints, and DevOps to produce products at a pace and quality that is exponentially worse than what is possible using true agile development and continuous delivery workflows.

Recognizing this, Erik has made it his mission to share his knowledge and expertise with companies and teams to help them build and deliver products using agile development standards and continuous delivery workflows that will allow them to complete phases of projects in spans of hours to weeks versus the months to years they're currently spending. This mission hitting a major milestone in May of 2023 with the release of his first book CASE: Continuous Agile Software Engineering, available now on Amazon.