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Agile Software Development Ecosystems
In a highly volatile software development environment, developers must be nimble, responsive, and able to hit a moving target - in short, they must be agile. Agile software development is designed to address this need for speed and flexibility. Agility describes a holistic, collaborative environment in which you can both create and respond to change
by focusing on adaptability over predictability, people over process. Agile software development incorporates proven software engineering techniques, but without the overhead and restrictions of traditional development methodologies. Above all, it fulfills its promise of delivering software that serves the client's business needs.
Written by one of the leaders of the Agile movement, and including interviews with Agile gurus Kent Beck, Robert Charette, Alistair Cockburn, Martin Fowler, Ken Schwaber, and Ward Cunningham, Agile Software Development Ecosystems crystallizes the current understanding of this flexible and highly successful approach to software development. It presents the key practices of all Agile development approaches, offers overviews of specific techniques, and shows how you can choose the approach that best suits your organization.
This book describes - in depth - the most important principles of Agile development: delivering value to the customer, focusing on individual developers and their skills, collaboration, an emphasis on producing working software, the critical contribution of technical excellence, and a willingness to change course when demands shift. All major Agile methods are presented:
Scrum
Dynamic Systems Development Method
CrystalMethods
Feature-Driven Development
Lean Development
Extreme Programming
Adaptive Software Development
Throughout the book, case stories are used to illustrate how Agile practices empower success around the world in today's chaotic software development industry. Agile Software Development Ecosystems also examines how to determine your organization's Agile readiness, how to design a custom Agile methodology, and how to transform your company into a truly Agile organization.
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Pt. I Problems and Solutions
Ch. 1 The Change-Driven Economy
Ch. 2 IDX Systems Corporation
Ch. 3 Agility
Pt. II Principles and People
Ch. 4 Kent Beck
Ch. 5 Deliver Something Useful
Ch. 6 Alistair Cockburn
Ch. 7 Rely on People
Ch. 8 Ken Schwaber
Ch. 9 Encourage Collaboration
Ch. 10 Martin Fowler
Ch. 11 Technical Excellence
Ch. 12 Ward Cunningham
Ch. 13 Do the Simplest Thing Possible
Ch. 14 Jim Highsmith
Ch. 15 Be Adaptable
Ch. 16 Bob Charette
Pt. III Agile Software Development Ecosystems
Ch. 17 Scrum
Ch. 18 Dynamic Systems Development Method
Ch. 19 Crystal Methods
Ch. 20 Feature-Driven Development
Ch. 21 Lean Development
Ch. 22 Extreme Programming
Ch. 23 Adaptive Software Development
Pt. IV Developing an ASDE
Ch. 24 Articulating Your Ecosystem
Ch. 25 Designing Your Agile Methodology
Ch. 26 The Agile Metamorphosis
Bibliography
Index
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