| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Artech House computing library
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Kent Beck -- Foreword / Mark Paulk -- pt. I Adoption considerations -- 1. Introducing the Agile methods -- 2. Considering your organizational culture -- 3. Considering your customers -- 4. Considering your projects -- 5. Considering your tools and processes -- 6. Considering your staff -- 7. Using this book to make your adoption decisions -- pt. II Value : "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" -- 8. About people, processes, and tools -- 9. Motivated individuals and self-organizing teams -- 10. Face-to-face communication -- 11. Sustainable pace -- 12. unstated principle : appropriate processes and tools -- pt. III Value : "working software over comprehensive documentation" -- 13. role of documentation in a software project -- 14. Incremental delivery of working software -- pt. IV Value : "customer collaboration over contract negotiation" -- 15. Defining the customer relationship -- 16. Daily collaboration of all stakeholders -- pt. V Value : "responding to change over following a plan" -- 17. Understanding change in software projects -- 18. Welcome changing requirements -- pt. VI unstated value : keeping the process Agile -- 19. Maintaining the process -- 20. Technical excellence -- 21. Simplicity -- 22. Retrospectives -- pt. VII adoption decision -- 23. Making the adoption decision -- 24. Adopting new practices -- 25. Evaluating the effects of your Agile method -- App. A Agile manifesto -- App. B 12 principles of Agile methods -- App. C Adaptive software development -- App. D Dynamic systems development method -- App. E Extreme programming -- App. F Feature-driven development -- App. G Lean software development |
| Summary |
"This is the first impartial book that offers an expert objective analysis of Agile software development methods together with much-needed tools for evaluating their suitability for a given organization. It reviews the philosophical underpinnings and objectives of the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Agile principles, and discuses in concrete detail each practice of the six most widely recognized Agile methods. Managers find concise and unbiased insight into adoption implications, the possible benefits that may accrue, and the potential pitfalls of the practices."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Computer software -- Development.
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COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Open Source.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- Tools.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
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Computer software -- Development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1580538436 |
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9781580538435 |
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9781580538428 |
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1580538428 |
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