A pragmatic companion guide to your Agile journey

About This Book

• 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

Who This Book Is For

If you're a software developer or a project manager with little to no experience of Agile, but you want to efficiently implement it, this is the book for you.

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

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

Think of this book like a manual, rather than a theoretical textbook. It's packed full of visual ways to understand Agile, helpful tips to get you set up quickly, tried and tested solutions when challenges arise, and heaps of support to get the day-to-day tasks in Agile done. You'll want to keep a copy on your desk, right next to your coffee cup.

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Spis treści

The Agile Developer's Handbook. Get more value from your software development: get the best out of the Agile methodology eBook -- spis treści

• 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