Book description
“Companies have been implementing large agile projects for
a number of years, but the ‘stigma’ of ‘agile
only works for small projects’ continues to be a frequent
barrier for newcomers and a rallying cry for agile critics. What
has been missing from the agile literature is a solid, practical
book on the specifics of developing large projects in an agile way.
Dean Leffingwell’s book Scaling Software
Agility fills this gap admirably. It offers a practical
guide to large project issues such as architecture, requirements
development, multi-level release planning, and team organization.
Leffingwell’s book is a necessary guide for large projects
and large organizations making the transition to agile
development.”
–Jim Highsmith, director, Agile Practice, Cutter
Consortium, author of Agile Project Management
“There’s tension between building software fast and
delivering software that lasts, between being ultra-responsive to
changes in the market and maintaining a degree of stability. In his
latest work, Scaling Software Agility, Dean
Leffingwell shows how to achieve a pragmatic balance among these
forces. Leffingwell’s observations of the problem, his advice
on the solution, and his description of the resulting best
practices come from experience: he’s been there, done that,
and has seen what’s worked.”
–Grady Booch, IBM Fellow
Agile development practices, while still controversial in some circles, offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer requirements, and higher quality. However, agile practices have been defined and recommended primarily to small teams. In Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods can be applied to enterprise-class development.
Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective agile methods.
Part II describes seven best practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level.
Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that companies can master to achieve the full benefits of software agility on an enterprise scale.
This book is invaluable to software
developers, testers and QA personnel, managers and team leads, as
well as to executives of software organizations whose objective is
to increase the quality and productivity of the software
development process but who are faced with all the challenges of
developing software on an enterprise scale.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I: Overview of Software Agility
Chapter 1: Introduction to Agile Methods
Chapter 2: Why the Waterfall Model Doesn’t Work
Chapter 3: The Essence of XP
Chapter 4: The Essence of Scrum
Chapter 5: The Essence of RUP
Chapter 6: Lean Software, DSDM, and FDD
Chapter 7: The Essence of Agile
Chapter 8: The Challenge of Scaling Agile
Part II: Seven Agile Team Practices That Scale
Chapter 9: The Define/Build/Test Component Team
Chapter 10: Two Levels of Planning and Tracking
Chapter 11: Mastering the Iteration
Chapter 12: Smaller, More Frequent Releases
Chapter 13: Concurrent Testing
Chapter 14: Continuous Integration
Chapter 15: Regular Reflection and Adaptation
Part III: Creating the Agile Enterprise
Chapter 16: Intentional Architecture
Chapter 17: Lean Requirements at Scale: Vision, Roadmap, and
Just-in-Time Elaboration
Chapter 18: Systems of Systems and the Agile Release Train
Chapter 19: Managing Highly Distributed Development
Chapter 20: Impact on Customers and Operations
Chapter 21: Changing the Organization
Chapter 22: Measuring Business Performance
Conclusion: Agility Works at Scale
Bibliography
Index
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Part I: Overview of Software Agility
- Part II: Seven Agile Team Practices That Scale
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Part III: Creating the Agile Enterprise
- Chapter 16. Intentional Architecture
- Chapter 17. Lean Requirements at Scale: Vision, Roadmap, and Just-in-Time Elaboration
- Chapter 18. Systems of Systems and the Agile Release Train
- Chapter 19. Managing Highly Distributed Development
- Chapter 20. Impact on Customers and Operations
- Chapter 21. Changing the Organization
- Chapter 22. Measuring Business Performance
- Conclusion: Agility Works at Scale
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2007
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 0321458192
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