Book description
"This book does a good job of describing
the methods employed at Sprintpcs.com ... over 250 people
practicing Feature Driven Development and reporting their progress
to me at the monthly operations review."
--Scott B. Relf, Chief Marketing Officer, Sprint PCS
"A tremendous contribution to the
literature in the field. This should be required reading for all
development teams going forward."
--John F. Yuzdepski, VP & GM, Openwave Systems
A breakthrough approach to managing agile software development, Agile methods might just be the alternative to outsourcing. However, agile development must scale in scope and discipline to be acceptable in the boardrooms of the Fortune 1000. In Agile Management for Software Engineering, David J. Anderson shows managers how to apply management science to gain the full business benefits of agility through application of the focused approach taught by Eli Goldratt in his Theory of Constraints.
Whether you're using XP, Scrum, FDD, or another agile approach, you'll learn how to develop management discipline for all phases of the engineering process, implement realistic financial and production metrics, and focus on building software that delivers maximum customer value and outstanding business results.Coverage includes:
Making the business case for agile methods: practical tools and disciplines
How to choose an agile method for your next project
Breakthrough application of Critical Chain Project Management and constraint-driven control of the flow of value
Defines the four new roles for the agile manager in software projects-- and competitive IT organizations
Whether you're a development manager, project manager, team leader, or senior IT executive, this book will help you achieve all four of your most urgent challenges: lower cost, faster delivery, improved quality, and focused alignment with the business.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Praise for Agile Management for Software Engineering
- The Coad Series
- About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
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Section 1. Agile Management
- Chapter 1. Theories for Agile Management
- Chapter 2. Management Accounting for Systems
- Chapter 3. TOC in Software Production
- Chapter 4. Dealing with Uncertainty
- Chapter 5. Software Production Metrics
- Chapter 6. Agile Project Management
- Chapter 7. Agile Project Planning
- Chapter 8. The Agile Manager's New Work
- Chapter 9. Agile Development Management
- Chapter 10. Software Resource Planning
- Chapter 11. An Agile Maturity Model
- Chapter 12. Setting the Governing Rules
- Chapter 13. Staffing Decisions
- Chapter 14. Operations Review
- Chapter 15. Agile Management in the IT Department
- Chapter 16. Agile Product Management
- Chapter 17. Financial Metrics for Software Services
- Chapter 18. The Business Benefit of Agile Methods
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Section 2. A Survey of Methods
- Chapter 19. Production Metrics for Traditional Methods
- Chapter 20. Financial Metrics in Traditional Methods
- Chapter 21. Production Metrics in FDD
- Chapter 22. Project Management with FDD
- Chapter 23. FDD Process Elements Explained
- Chapter 24. Financial Metrics in FDD
- Chapter 25. Production Metrics in Extreme Programming
- Chapter 26. XP Process Elements Explained
- Chapter 27. Financial Metrics in XP
- Chapter 28. Production Metrics in Scrum
- Chapter 29. Scrum Process Elements Explained
- Chapter 30. RAD Process Elements Explained
- Section 3. Comparison of Methods
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2003
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 0131424602
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