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A lot has happened since the first edition of the Co-Pilot came out in November 2010: Comerge has celebrated its fifth birthday and looking back at the last two years, Comerge has undergone an evolution in various areas.

First of all, we are happy to have gained many new talented and motivated Comergers as colleagues. This has meant for us that new ideas, expectations, and needs have entered our company life and helped shape what Comerge is today. At the same time, company growth has put us up against managerial and organizational challenges, which the Co-Pilot has helped us handle. These new challenges have also lead to changes in the Co-Pilot that—where needed—we have adapted to fit our needs.

Secondly, we are proud of the going live of several large projects (the most prominent being the Mobility project, live since October 2011). Having safely landed these software projects has affirmed the value of the Co-Pilot and strengthens our belief in following its processes while continuously advancing its principles as the company, the team, and our projects evolve.

Thirdly, we have moved the tool support for the Co-Pilot process from Origo to JIRA and have started using Git instead of SVN for certain projects. These technological changes have rendered some of the contents of the Co-Pilot’s first edition outdated and resulted in adaptations to the process descriptions and extensions detailing the peculiarities of these tools.

All of these developments have effects on how we work and to stay abreast of changes, it is high time to bring out a second edition of the Co-Pilot! We hope you will find the Co-Pilot interesting and helpful.

We would like to thank all our customers and employees for their loyalty, trust and commitment to jointly developing high quality software. A special thanks goes to Beat Fluri and Jonas Zuberbühler for the process descriptions they provided and to Patrick Ferrarelli for his hints on book typesetting that have found their way into this second edition of the book.

May 2013

Till Bay, Eva Jutzeler, Michela Pedroni, Benno Baumgartner, and Sara Brigatti