Tamed Agility : Pragmatic Contracting and Collaboration in Agile Software Projects / by Matthias Book, Volker Gruhn, Rüdiger Striemer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Book, Matthias, author.

Gruhn, Volker, author.

Striemer, Rüdiger, 1968- author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering.

Management information systems.

Computer science.

Computers.

Law and legislation.

Software Engineering.

Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Software Management.

Legal Aspects of Computing.

Local Subjects:

Software Engineering.

Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Software Management.

Legal Aspects of Computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 334 pages) : 66 illustrations, 20 illustrations in color

Edition:

First edition 2016.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book describes pragmatic instruments and methods that enable business experts and software engineers to develop a common understanding of complex software systems, to determine key requirements, and to manage projects in a way that fosters trust, encourages innovation and distributes risk fairly between clients and contractors. After an introduction to the fundamentals of agile software development in Part I, Part II describes the Interaction Room, an actual room where digitalization and mobilization strategies are developed, where technology potentials are evaluated, where software projects are planned and managed, and where business and technical stakeholders can communicate face to face, visualize complex relationships intuitively, and highlight value, effort and risk drivers that are keys to the project's success. After addressing these constructive aspects, the book focuses on the commercial aspects of software development: The adVANTAGE contract model described in Part III ensures that the insight-driven innovation process of software development does not just function, but is allowed to flourish in a trusted client-contractor relationship. Even though software contracting and construction may be grounded in two different academic disciplines, they are inseparable in practice, and how they interact is illustrated in the case study of developing a private health insurance benefit system in Part IV. Ultimately though, the success of every software project depends on the skills of the stakeholders. Part V therefore describes the qualification profile that software engineers and domain experts have to satisfy today. This book is aimed at CIOs, project managers and software engineers in industrial software development practice who want to learn how to effectively deal with the inevitable uncertainty of complex projects, who want to achieve higher levels of understanding and cooperation in their relationships with clients and contractors, and who want to run lower-risk software projects despite their inherent uncertainties.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

1. The Need for Tamed Agility

Part II: The Interaction Room

2. A Room for Ideas

3. Interaction Room Basics

4. Using an Interaction Room for Digitalization Strategy Development (IR:digital)

5 Using an Interaction Room for Software Project Scoping (IR:scope)

6. Using an Interaction Room for Mobile Application Development (IR:mobile)

7. Using an Interaction Room for Technology Evaluation (IR:tech)

8 Using an Interaction Room for Agile Project Monitoring (IR:agile)

9. Using Interaction Rooms Under Difficult Conditions

10. Summary

Part III: The adVANTAGE contract model

11. Framing Software Projects in Commercial Terms

12 Traditional Contract Models in an Agile World

13. Agile Contract Models

14. Key adVANTAGE Principles

15 adVANTAGE Procedures

16. adVANTAGE in Practice

17 Summary

Part IV: A Sample Project

18 Case Study: The Cura Health Insurance Benefit System

19 Initial Project Scoping with the IR:scope

20 Project Monitoring with the IR:agile

21 Lessons Learned

Part V: Conclusion

22 The Big Picture

23 A New Skill Set

24 Outlook: Twelve Hypotheses

Appendix

25 Interaction Room Workshop Agendas

26 Interaction Room Annotations

27 adVANTAGE Contract Template

Index. .

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-319-41478-2

9783319414782

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.