Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations

Table of Contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Table of Contents
5. List of Tables
6. List of Acronyms
7. Executive Summary
8. 1 - Introduction
9. 2 - Literature Review
   1. 2.1 Agile Approaches
   2. 2.2 Benefits of Agile
   3. 2.3 Agile and Traditional Project Management Approaches
   4. 2.4 Scaling Agility
   5. 2.5 Examples of using Agile at Scale
   6. 2.6 Scaling Frameworks
   7. 2.7 Challenges of Scaling up Agile
      1. 2.7.1 Organizational Aspects
      2. 2.7.2 Technical Aspects and Refactoring
      3. 2.7.3 Organizational Culture
      4. 2.7.4 Teams
   8. 2.8 Summary of the Literature Review
10. 3 - Methodology
    1. 3.1 The Qualitative Case Studies
    2. 3.2 The Survey Instrument
    3. 3.3 Data Collection and Analysis
    4. 3.4 The Case Study Organizations
11. 4 - Results
    1. 4.1 Characteristics of Respondents, Their Organizations, and their Projects
       1. 4.1.1 Respondent Demographics
       2. 4.1.2 Countries of Users and Producers of Software
       3. 4.1.3 Description of the Organizational Context—Private and Public Sectors
       4. 4.1.4 Description of the Organizational Context—Organization Size
       5. 4.1.5 Description of the Organizational Context—Primary Activity
       6. 4.1.6 Description of the Organizational Context—Use of Agile Approach
       7. 4.1.7 Description of the Specific Projects
    2. 4.2 Implementation of Agile Approaches
       1. 4.2.1 Motives for Implementing Agile Approaches
       2. 4.2.2 Disadvantages of Agile Approaches
       3. 4.2.3 Conditions that Foster and Hinder the Implementation of Agile
       4. 4.2.4 Implementation Strategies
       5. 4.2.5 The Agile Sweet Spot
       6. 4.2.6 Integration with other Systems
    3. 4.3 The Project Front End
       1. 4.3.1 Sprint Zero
       2. 4.3.2 System Architecture and Front-End Planning
    4. 4.4 Project Organizations
       1. 4.4.1 Development Teams
       2. 4.4.2 New and Modified Organizational Roles
       3. 4.4.3 The Role of Product Owners
       4. 4.4.4 The Roles of ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches
       5. 4.4.5 The Role of Project Managers
       6. 4.4.6 The Role of Analysts
       7. 4.4.7 The Role of Architects
    5. 4.5 The Tools and Techniques Employed
    6. 4.6 Scaling Frameworks
    7. 4.7 Testing, Integration, and DevOps
    8. 4.8 The Portrait Provided by the Results
12. 5 - Discussion
    1. 5.1 Team Level
    2. 5.2 Project Level
    3. 5.3 Interaction between the Project and the Organization
    4. 5.4 Conflicts between Large Traditional Organizations and Agile Principles
    5. 5.5 A Period of Experimentation
13. 6 - Conclusion
14. 7 - Future Research
15. Acknowledgments
16. References
17. Appendix
18. About the Authors