Being agile : your roadmap to successful adoption of agile / Mario E. Moreira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreira, Mario E., Author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agile software development--Management.

Agile software development.

Software engineering.

Computer software--Development--Management.

Computer software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

New York : Apress, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement. Agile is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many content themselves with half-baked approximations such as Fragile (fragile Agile), ScrumBut (Scrum but not the practices), and Scrum Fall (mini-waterfalls in the sprints). Moreira shows maturing early adopters how to bridge the chasm between going through the motions of doing Agile and genuinely being Agile. After a high-level synopsis of Agile’s values and principles, methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Leam, VFQ, and XP), and roles, Moreira plunges into the nitty-gritty of how to apply the ready, implement, coach, and hone (RICH) deployment model to all phases of a project in such a way as to embody and inculcate agile values and principles at the team level and promote agile transformation across your organization's culture.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Getting Started""; ""Purpose of This Book""; ""What You Will Learn""; ""Who This Book Is For""; ""How to Navigate This Book""; ""Chapter 2: Crossing the Agile Chasm""; ""Agile Is Really a Culture Change""; ""Technology Adoption Lifecycle""; ""Agile Cultural Chasm""; ""Chapter 3: Business Benefits of Being Agile""; ""Show Me the Money""; ""Engaging Your Customers and Employees""; ""Agile Value to Incentive Differentiator (AVID)""; ""Elusive Customer Value""; ""Agile Business Strategy""

""Chapter 4: Importance of Customer Engagement""""Continuous Customer Engagement""; ""Dedicated Team Business Representative""; ""Minimum Viable Product (MVP)""; ""Getting to Continuous Customer Engagement""; ""Chapter 5: Importance of Employee Engagement""; ""Employee Empowerment""; ""Self-Organizing Teams""; ""Evidence of Self-Organizing""; ""Stepping Up""; ""Understanding Value-Added Work""; ""Customers and Employees Matter: Are We There Yet?""; ""Chapter 6: Foundations of Agile""; ""Agile Is a Set of �Values and Principles�.�.�. Seriously!""

""Manifesto of Agile Software Development""""Principles behind the Agile Manifesto""; ""Introduction to Agile Processes and Methodologies""; ""Scrum""; ""Extreme Programming (XP)""; ""Dynamic Systems Development Method""; ""Kanban""; ""Lean Software Development""; ""Value, Flow, Quality""; ""Back to Values and Principles""; ""Chapter 7: Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone (RICH) Deployment Model""; ""Readiness Activities for Agile Transformation""; ""Implementation Activities for Agile Transformation""; ""Coaching Activities for Agile Transformation""

""Honing Activities for Agile Transformation""""Are You Ready?""; ""Chapter 8: Motivations for Moving to an Agile Culture""; ""Communicating Motivations""; ""Adapting Rewards""; ""Managing Resistance""; ""Common Motivations for Moving to Agile""; ""Benefit of Establishing a Common Understanding of Agile""; ""Aligning Storytelling with the Culture You Want""; ""Building the Agile Culture You Want""; ""Chapter 9: Achieving an Agile Mindset""; ""Dissecting the Agile Principles""; ""Satisfy Customer with Valuable Software""; ""Welcoming Change to Requirements""; ""Frequent/Continuous Delivery""

""Business and Development Work Together""""Trust Motivated Individuals""; ""Promote Face-to-Face Communication""; ""Working Software as Measure of Progress""; ""Sustainable Pace""; ""Technical Excellence""; ""Simplicity""; ""Self-Organizing Teams""; ""Reflection for Improvement""; ""A Group Exercise on the Principles""; ""Chapter 10: Evaluating Executive Support and Team Willingness""; ""Agile Personality Types""; ""Innovator""; ""Champion""; ""Workhorse""; ""Bandwagon Jumper""; ""Cowboy""; ""Deceiver""; ""Denier""; ""Executive/Senior Management Support""; ""Support Needed from Executives""

""Evaluate and Increase Executive Support""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781430258407

1430258403

OCLC:

864591016