The Agile Developer's Handbook: Get more value from your software development: get the best out of the Agile methodology - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

A pragmatic companion guide to your Agile journey

Key Features

• Make your team Agile by implementing industry-standard Agile techniques
• Assess scope, scale up efficiently
• Create the correct roles and identify the right candidates for your team
• Finish your projects faster and stay ahead of the curve

Book Description

This book will help you overcome the common challenges you'll face when transforming your working practices from waterfall to Agile. Each chapter builds on the last, starting with easy-to-grasp ways to get going with Agile. Next you'll see how to choose the right Agile framework for your organization. Moving on, you'll implement systematic product delivery and measure and report progress with visualization. Then you'll learn how to create high performing teams, develop people in Agile, manage in Agile, and perform distributed Agile and collaborative governance.

At the end of the book, you'll discover how Agile will help your company progressively deliver software to customers, increase customer satisfaction, and improve the level of efficiency in software development teams.

What you will learn

• Create a solid foundation that gives your team an Agile jumpstart
• Understand how to select and evolve practices to increase your team's agility
• Use experiments to accelerate your team's understanding
• Fine-tune your approach by incorporating aspects of Lean and Lean Startup
• Know how to foster an environment of continuous improvement and learning that will become self-sustaining

Table of Contents

1. The turning point in the software industry and the Agile manifesto
2. The Agile software delivery methods and how they fit the manifesto
3. Introducing Scrum to your software team
4. Gathering user requirements for incremental software delivery
5. Using kickoffs to speed-up team formation and to create better alignment
6. Metrics that will help your software team deliver
7. Software technical practices are the foundation of incremental software delivery
8. Tightening feedback loops in the Software Development Lifecycle
9. How better user requirements will help you deliver better software sooner
10. Using Product Roadmaps to guide software delivery
11. Improving your software team's dynamics to increase your Agility
12. Baking quality in to your software delivery
13. The Ultimate Software Team Member
14. Scaling out your approach

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