Have your software projects been suffering from the
age-old development problems of slipped schedules and ballooning budgets? Has your development organization experienced a variety of failed and canceled projects?
If so, you may benefit from infusing some agility into your development process.
Agile development breaks with a 40-year tradition of applying ever more structure and formalization to the design and development of software by advocating a return to the basic principles of satisfied customers, working software, and the willingness to accept and respond to change.
As the popularity of agile development has grown, IT professionals have begun to struggle with ways to integrate agile practices and processes into traditional project environments. Integrating Agile Development in the Real World provides programmers and managers with specific and implementable ways to use agile processes in everyday software development projects.
Whether read cover-to-cover, or used as a field guide during an agile transition, this book provides valuable insight into how agile practices and processes may be applied in almost any environment.
Everything from how to deliver a working system sooner, acknowledge and respond to change, better meet the needs of the project's customer, to increasing software quality, and fostering a more communicative and collaborative team culture are thoroughly covered.
Section 1: Essential Agile Processes
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is So Special About Agile?
Chapter 2: Development Practices
Chapter 3: Management Practices
Section 2: The Development Cycles
Chapter 4: A Simple, Flexible, and Agile System
Chapter 5: Task Cycle
Chapter 6: Release Cycle
Chapter 7: Estimation Cycle
Chapter 8: Planning Cycle
Chapter 9: Pricing Cycle
Section 3: Real World Environments
Chapter 10: Fixed Cost
Chapter 11: Gradual Adoption
Chapter 12: Waterfall
Chapter 13: Heavy Process
Chapter 14: Anti-Agile
Section 5: Agile Management
Chapter 15: Automating Task Management
Chapter 16: The Agile Project Manager
Index
Author Description
Peter Schuh
Peter Schuh (Chicago, IL) has held virtually every position
on a software development project team, including project manager, programmer, DBA, business analyst, technical writer, and account manager. Most recently, he has managed IT projects in the leasing, healthcare and e-commerce fields.
He has written and spoken about the integration of agile processes into non-agile project environments, Extreme Programming, and agile development's impacts upon database administration.