Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises

Part IISeven 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

In Part I, we reviewed a number of agile methods (XP, Scrum, DSDM, etc.) and one widely adopted iterative and incremental method (RUP). As we synthesize all that we have learned from studying and applying these various methods, we come to two main conclusions:

1.  They differ substantially from traditional methods. Agile is not a trivial fix, or tune-up, for what we have been doing. It is a radical change ...