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Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”
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Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

by Leslie Ekas, Scott Will
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h 58m
English
IBM Press
Content preview from Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Identifying Stakeholders

To begin with, we really like the way that Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer identified different categories of stakeholders in their book, Outside-in Software Development.11 In the book they list four categories of stakeholders:

11. Kessler, Carl and Sweitzer, John. Outside-in Software Development. Upper Saddle River. IBM Press, 2008. Print.

Insiders: “These are members of the whole development team, or of the firm you work for. The insider stakeholders group includes your business, marketing, and sales teams.”12

12. Ibid., p.17.

Partners: “Partner stakeholders might be internal to the business, in which case they are usually the IT operations folks. Or they may be external business partners, who provide functions such ...

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