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Agile Estimating and Planning
by Mike CohnAgile Estimating and Planning is the definitive, practical guide to estimating and planning agile projects. In this book, Agile Alliance cofounder Mike Cohn discusses the philosophy of agile estimating and planning and shows you exactly how to get the job done, with real-world examples and case studies.
Agile IT Security Implementation Methodology
by Jeff LaskowskiThe book is a tutorial that goes from basic to professional level for Agile IT security. It begins by assuming little knowledge of agile security. Readers should hold a good knowledge of security methods and agile development. The book is targeted at IT security managers, directors, and architects. It is useful for anyone responsible for the deployment of IT security countermeasures. Security people with a strong knowledge of agile software development will find this book to be a good review of agile concepts.
Agile Information Business: Exploring Managerial Implications (Flexible Systems Management)
by Natalia Kryvinska Michal GregusThis book accomplishes an analysis of critical aspects of managerial implications on the business with information. The business dealing with information is spreading in the service market; and, an efficient management of informational processes, in order to perform successful business with them, is now crucial. Besides, economical/business, technological or any other kind of information, organized in a variety of forms, can be considered as an 'informational product'. Thus, creating a business value out of information is challenging but vital, especially in the modern digital age. Accordingly, the book covers the methods and technologies to capture, integrate, analyze, mine, interpret and visualize information out of distributed data, which in turn can help to manage information competently. This volume explores the challenges being faced and opportunities to look out for in this research area, while discussing different aspects of this subject. The book will be of interest to those working in or are interested in joining interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work in the areas of information management, service management, and service business. It will also be of use to young generation researchers by giving them an overview on different aspects of doing business with information. While introducing them to both technical and non-technical details, as well as economic aspects, the book will also be extremely informative for professionals who want to understand and realize the potential of using the cutting-edge managerial technologies for doing successful business with information/ services.
Agile Innovation: Mit neuem Schwung zum Erfolg
by Markus GlückInnovationen sind für Unternehmen lebensnotwendig. Dies gilt in sich mit hohem Tempo revolutionär verändernden Märkten für Startups wie für Bestandsfirmen. Allerdings fehlt beiden heute oft die nötige Wirksamkeit der Innovationsanstrengungen, weil der Reifegrad der Ausführung oder das Geschäftsmodell Kunden nicht wirklich begeistert. Oder weil das nötige Umsetzungstempo lahmt. Dabei sind viele Faktoren und vor allem die von den Führenden geprägten kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen erfolgsentscheidend. Doch Agilität und Startup-Mentalität - häufig zitiert - sind nicht automatisch ein Allheilmittel für nachhaltigen Innovationserfolg.Dieses Buch greift wesentliche Prinzipien agilen Managements auf, adressiert Schwachstellen in der klassischen Innovationspraxis und löst synergetisch das sich ergebende Spannungsfeld von Prozessorientierung und Wandlungsfähigkeit auf. Es sorgt als praxisorientierter Leitfaden mit Orientierungshilfen für nachhaltigen Innovationserfolg und Disruption im Unternehmensalltag.
Agile Innovation: Mit neuem Schwung zum Erfolg
by Markus GlückInnovationen sind für Unternehmen lebensnotwendig. Dies gilt in sich mit hohem Tempo revolutionär verändernden Märkten für Startups wie für Bestandsfirmen. Allerdings fehlt beiden heute oft die nötige Wirksamkeit der Innovationsanstrengungen, weil der Reifegrad der Ausführung oder das Geschäftsmodell Kunden nicht wirklich begeistert. Oder weil das nötige Umsetzungstempo lahmt. Dabei sind viele Faktoren und vor allem die von den Führenden geprägten kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen erfolgsentscheidend. Doch Agilität und Startup-Mentalität - häufig zitiert - sind nicht automatisch ein Allheilmittel für nachhaltigen Innovationserfolg.Dieses Buch greift wesentliche Prinzipien agilen Managements auf, adressiert Schwachstellen in der klassischen Innovationspraxis und löst synergetisch das sich ergebende Spannungsfeld von Prozessorientierung und Wandlungsfähigkeit auf. Es sorgt als praxisorientierter Leitfaden mit Orientierungshilfen für nachhaltigen Innovationserfolg und Disruption imUnternehmensalltag.
Agile Kaizen: Managing Continuous Improvement Far Beyond Retrospectives
by Ángel MedinillaAgile teams have been struggling with the concept of continuous improvement since the first Agile frameworks were developed, and still very little has been written about the practice of continuous improvement in Agile environments. Although team retrospectives have been prescribed and some practices have been introduced in order to implement and facilitate them, the truth is that most Agile teams are conducting dull retrospectives that end with a list of things that have been done wrong, just to repeat the same list two weeks later at the next meeting. Instead of listing hundreds of Japanese-labeled tools, this book gives you practical insights into how to spot improvement opportunities, how to plan for improvement and how to engage everyone in your company in the Kaizen process. In addition, it will also provide you with 27 proven practices and 12 bonus activities to introduce into your retrospectives in order to keep them fresh, creative and exciting, so you can promise a team that, in a year's time, no two retrospectives will be alike. This book helps you as a manager, team leader, change agent or consultant in any type of organization to unleash the real power of Kaizen cultures - no matter what kind of organization, market, product, technology, vision, goal or size. It provides you with the background, tools and practical hints on how to engage your organization in a process of continuous quest for new and better ways of performing.
Agile Learning and Management in a Digital Age: Dialogic Leadership (Perspectives on Education in the Digital Age)
by David Kergel Birte Heidkamp-Kergel Hanne Nørreklit Michael PaulsenThis book offers a detailed theoretical analysis of the fields of learning and management in the digital age. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it opens a dialogue between agile management theory and agile learning theory. The book argues that there is a tension between participative and action-orientated approaches on the one hand and neoliberal enclosure of the actor on the other hand. It takes this as an opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue between learning theories and management concepts. With contributions from a range of international experts, chapters discuss the need for suitable theoretical, epistemological, and ethical foundations as well as practice-orientated methods for learning and management to implement appropriate strategies and meet educational challenges. This highly topical book will be of great interest to academics, postgraduate students, and researchers in the fields of digital learning, educational theory, management theory, and communication studies.
Agile Machine Learning with DataRobot: Automate each step of the machine learning life cycle, from understanding problems to delivering value
by Bipin Chadha Sylvester JuweLeverage DataRobot's enterprise AI platform and automated decision intelligence to extract business value from dataKey FeaturesGet well-versed with DataRobot features using real-world examplesUse this all-in-one platform to build, monitor, and deploy ML models for handling the entire production life cycleMake use of advanced DataRobot capabilities to programmatically build and deploy a large number of ML modelsBook DescriptionDataRobot enables data science teams to become more efficient and productive. This book helps you to address machine learning (ML) challenges with DataRobot's enterprise platform, enabling you to extract business value from data and rapidly create commercial impact for your organization.You'll begin by learning how to use DataRobot's features to perform data prep and cleansing tasks automatically. The book then covers best practices for building and deploying ML models, along with challenges faced while scaling them to handle complex business problems. Moving on, you'll perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) tasks to prepare your data to build ML models and ways to interpret results. You'll also discover how to analyze the model's predictions and turn them into actionable insights for business users. Next, you'll create model documentation for internal as well as compliance purposes and learn how the model gets deployed as an API. In addition, you'll find out how to operationalize and monitor the model's performance. Finally, you'll work with examples on time series forecasting, NLP, image processing, MLOps, and more using advanced DataRobot capabilities.By the end of this book, you'll have learned to use DataRobot's AutoML and MLOps features to scale ML model building by avoiding repetitive tasks and common errors.What you will learnUnderstand and solve business problems using DataRobotUse DataRobot to prepare your data and perform various data analysis tasks to start building modelsDevelop robust ML models and assess their results correctly before deploymentExplore various DataRobot functions and outputs to help you understand the models and select the one that best solves the business problemAnalyze a model's predictions and turn them into actionable insights for business usersUnderstand how DataRobot helps in governing, deploying, and maintaining ML modelsWho this book is forThis book is for data scientists, data analysts, and data enthusiasts looking for a practical guide to building and deploying robust machine learning models using DataRobot. Experienced data scientists will also find this book helpful for rapidly exploring, building, and deploying a broader range of models. The book assumes a basic understanding of machine learning.
Agile Machine Learning: Effective Machine Learning Inspired by the Agile Manifesto
by Eric Carter Matthew HurstBuild resilient applied machine learning teams that deliver better data products through adapting the guiding principles of the Agile Manifesto. Bringing together talented people to create a great applied machine learning team is no small feat. With developers and data scientists both contributing expertise in their respective fields, communication alone can be a challenge. Agile Machine Learning teaches you how to deliver superior data products through agile processes and to learn, by example, how to organize and manage a fast-paced team challenged with solving novel data problems at scale, in a production environment. The authors’ approach models the ground-breaking engineering principles described in the Agile Manifesto. The book provides further context, and contrasts the original principles with the requirements of systems that deliver a data product. What You'll Learn Effectively run a data engineering team that is metrics-focused, experiment-focused, and data-focusedMake sound implementation and model exploration decisions based on the data and the metricsKnow the importance of data wallowing: analyzing data in real time in a group settingRecognize the value of always being able to measure your current state objectivelyUnderstand data literacy, a key attribute of a reliable data engineer, from definitions to expectations Who This Book Is ForAnyone who manages a machine learning team, or is responsible for creating production-ready inference components. Anyone responsible for data project workflow of sampling data; labeling, training, testing, improving, and maintaining models; and system and data metrics will also find this book useful. Readers should be familiar with software engineering and understand the basics of machine learning and working with data.
Agile Management: Leadership in an Agile Environment
by Ángel MedinillaIf you have tried to implement Agile in your organization, you have probably learned a lot about development practices, teamwork, processes and tools, but too little about how to manage such an organization. Yet managerial support is often the biggest impediment to successfully adopting Agile, and limiting your Agile efforts to those of the development teams while doing the same old-style management will dramatically limit the ability of your organization to reach the next Agile level. Ángel Medinilla will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of what Agile means to an organization and the manager's role in such an environment, i.e., how to manage, lead and motivate self-organizing teams and how to create an Agile corporate culture. Based on his background as a "veteran" Agile consultant for companies of all sizes, he delivers insights and experiences, points out possible pitfalls, presents practical approaches and possible scenarios, also including detailed suggestions for further reading. If you are a manager, team leader, evangelist, change agent (or whatever nice title) and if you want to push Agile further in your organization, then this is your book. You will read how to change the paradigm of what management is about: it is not about arbitrary decisions, constant supervision and progress control, and the negotiation of changing requirements. It is about motivation, self-organization, responsibility, and the exploitation of all project stakeholders' knowledge. We live in a different world than the one that most management experts of the 20th century describe, and companies that strive for success and excellence will need a new kind of manager - Agile managers.
Agile Marketing Performance Management: 10 Success Factors for Maximizing Marketing ROI Dynamically (Management for Professionals)
by Sascha Stürze Markus Hoyer Claudio Righetti Matthias RasztarThis book helps marketing decision makers in allocating their budget to diverse communication channels and different business units in an ROI-optimal way, and to adapt it in an agile manner. The optimal allocation of resources in marketing is not very complex in theory, but in practice a variety of questions arise, for example: How do you find the optimal mix, even across brands and product lines, and how do you adjust it dynamically? What is the right balance between image and performance marketing? How do you tackle strategic data management and other organizational challenges?The authors guide the reader through the entire process from data collection to marketing mix modeling and campaign tracking to tool selection. The book strikes the right balance between theoretical sophistication and necessary pragmatism, with numerous concrete recommendations for decision makers.
Agile Marketing: Unlock Adaptive and Data-driven Marketing for Long-term Success
by Neil PerkinCreate and apply responsive and adaptive marketing principles and practices with this guide to redesigning marketing structures, processes and culture, to be fit for purpose in today's changeable environment. Agile Marketing is an essential and practical roadmap to transforming your marketing by applying agile principles at scale and overcoming mindset and culture challenges to enable greater efficiency and quicker response times. Covering areas such as putting data and automation at the centre of agility, measuring success and creating and maintaining space for innovation, it features a range of invaluable frameworks, practical guidance and insightful examples from organizations such as Dell and Pepsi. Written by a recognized agile expert and marketing thought-leader who has worked with marketing teams in some of the largest global organizations, Agile Marketing also explores how to empower high-performing marketing teams and develop and pivot agile campaigns and content. Featuring tips and tools throughout and a step-by-step agile marketing transformation blueprint, it is a crucial resource for creating effective and streamlined marketing today and into the future.
Agile Methods: 10th Brazilian Workshop, WBMA 2019, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 11, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1106)
by Paulo Meirelles Maria Augusta Nelson Carla RochaThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods, WBMA 2019, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2019. The 6 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.Accepted papers focus on agile methods; experimental studies with agile; software engineering education with agile; agile project management.
Agile Methods: 7th Brazilian Workshop, WBMA 2016, Curitiba, Brazil, November 7-9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #680)
by Tiago Silva da Silva Bernardo Estácio Josiane Kroll Rafaela Mantovani FontanaThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th Brazilian Workshop on Agil Methods, WBMA 2016, held in Curitiba, Brazil, in November 2016. The 10 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers present empirical results and literature reviews on agile implementation in government and distributed environments, design thinking and projects inception, testing and technical debt, motivation and gamification, training, modeling and project management, maturity models and quality assurance.
Agile Methods: 7th Brazilian Workshop, Wbma 2016, Curitiba, Brazil, November 7-9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Communications In Computer And Information Science Series #680)
by Tiago Silva da Silva Carla Rocha Celio Santana Júnior Fernando De Sá<p>This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th Brazilian Workshop on Agil Methods, WBMA 2016, held in Curitiba, Brazil, in November 2016. The 10 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions.<p> <p>The papers present empirical results and literature reviews on agile implementation in government and distributed environments, design thinking and projects inception, testing and technical debt, motivation and gamification, training, modeling and project management, maturity models and quality assurance.<p>
Agile Methods: 9th Brazilian Workshop, WBMA 2018, Campinas, Brazil, October 4, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #981)
by Bernardo Estácio Graziela Simone Tonin Alfredo Goldman Eduardo GuerraThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods, WBMA 2018, held in Campinas, Brazil, in October 2018. The 6 full and 1 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. Accepted papers in this edition present empirical results and literature reviews on agile requirements validation in Brazilian software development companies; a survey on Brazilian software processes about to be agile or not; an evaluation of an agile maturity model; strategies to increase customer value in agile software development; an agile development environment and scrum in a strongly hierarchical organization.
Agile Metrics in Action: How to measure and improve team performance
by Christopher DavisSummaryAgile Metrics in Action is a rich resource for agile teams that aim to use metrics to objectively measure performance. You'll learn how to gather data that really counts, along with how to effectively analyze and act upon the results.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the BookThe iterative nature of agile development is perfect for experience-based, continuous improvement. Tracking systems, test and build tools, source control, continuous integration, and other built-in parts of a project lifecycle throw off a wealth of data you can use to improve your products, processes, and teams. The question is, how to do it?Agile Metrics in Action teaches you how. This practical book is a rich resource for an agile team that aims to use metrics to objectively measure performance. You'll learn how to gather the data that really count, along with how to effectively analyze and act upon the results. Along the way, you'll discover techniques all team members can use for better individual accountability and team performance.Practices in this book will work with any development process or tool stack. For code-based examples, this book uses Groovy, Grails, and MongoDB.What's InsideUse the data you generate every day from CI and ScrumImprove communication, productivity, transparency, and moraleObjectively measure performanceMake metrics a natural byproduct of your development processAbout the AuthorChristopher Davis has been a software engineer and team leader for over 15 years. He has led numerous teams to successful delivery using agile methodologies.Table of ContentsPART 1 MEASURING AGILE TEAMSMeasuring agile performanceObserving a live projectPART 2 COLLECTING AND ANALYZING YOUR TEAM'S DATATrends and data from project-tracking systemsTrends and data from source controlTrends and data from CI and deployment serversData from your production systemsPART 3 APPLYING METRICS TO YOUR TEAMS, PROCESSES, AND SOFTWAREWorking with the data you're collecting: the sum of the partsMeasuring the technical quality of your softwarePublishing metricsMeasuring your team against the agile principles
Agile Model-Based Development Using UML-RSDS
by Kevin LanoThis book describes the concepts and application of model-based development (MBD), model transformations, and Agile MBD to a wide range of software systems. It covers systems requirements engineering, system specification and design, verification, reuse, and system composition in the context of Agile MBD. Examples of applications in finance, system migration, internet systems and software refactoring are given. An established open-source MBD technology, UML-RSDS, is used throughout to illustrate the concepts. The book is suitable for industrial practitioners who need training in Agile MBD, and those who need to understand the issues to be considered when introducing MBD in an industrial context. It is also suitable for academic researchers, and for use as text for undergraduate or postgraduate courses in MBD. Examples for educational use of UML-RSDS are included in the book.
Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook: Improve system development by applying proven recipes for effective agile systems engineering
by Dr. Bruce DouglassWorried about the growing complexity of systems in your organization? Manage it with recipes for applying agile methodologies and techniques in model-based systems engineering (MBSE)Key FeaturesLearn how Agile and MBSE can work iteratively and collaborate to overcome system complexityDevelop essential systems engineering products and achieve crucial enterprise objectives with easy-to-follow recipesBuild efficient system engineering models using tried and trusted best practicesBook DescriptionAgile MBSE can help organizations manage constant change and uncertainty while continuously ensuring system correctness and meeting customers' needs. But deploying it isn't easy.Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook is a little different from other MBSE books out there. This book focuses on workflows – or recipes, as the author calls them – that will help MBSE practitioners and team leaders address practical situations that are part of deploying MBSE as part of an agile development process across the enterprise.Written by Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, a world-renowned expert in MBSE, this book will take you through important systems engineering workflows and show you how they can be performed effectively with an agile and model-based approach. You'll start with the key concepts of agile methods for systems engineering, but we won't linger on the theory for too long. Each of the recipes will take you through initiating a project, defining stakeholder needs, defining and analyzing system requirements, designing system architecture, performing model-based engineering trade studies, all the way to handling systems specifications off to downstream engineering.By the end of this MBSE book, you'll have learned how to implement critical systems engineering workflows and create verifiably correct systems engineering models.What you will learnApply agile methods to develop systems engineering specificationsPerform functional analysis with SysMLDerive and model systems architectures from key requirementsModel crucial engineering data to clarify systems requirementsCommunicate decisions with downstream subsystem implementation teamsVerify specifications with model reviews and simulationsEnsure the accuracy of systems models through model-based testingWho this book is forIf you are a systems engineer who wants to pursue model-based systems engineering in an agile setting, this book will show you how you can do that without breaking a sweat. Fundamental knowledge of SysML is necessary; the book will teach you the rest.
Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook: Improve system development by applying proven recipes for effective agile systems engineering, 2nd Edition
by Dr. Bruce Douglass Dr. Christian HolstGet up to date with the latest recipes for applying agile methodologies and techniques in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and manage the growing complexity of systems in your organization with ease.Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesUse this updated edition to learn how Agile and MBSE work iteratively and overcome system complexityDevelop key systems engineering products and achieve enterprise objectives with step-by-step recipesBuild efficient system engineering models using tried and trusted best practicesBook DescriptionAgile MBSE can help organizations manage change while ensuring system correctness and meeting customers' needs. But deployment challenges have changed since our first edition. The Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook's second edition focuses on workflows – or recipes – that will help MBSE practitioners and team leaders address practical situations that are part of deploying MBSE as part of an agile development process across the enterprise. In this 2nd edition, the Cameo MagicDraw Systems Modeler tool – the most popular tool for MBSE – is used in examples (models are downloadable by readers). Written by a world-renowned expert in MBSE, this book will take you through systems engineering workflows in the Cameo Systems Modeler SysML modeling tool and show you how they can be used with an agile and model-based approach. You'll start with the key concepts of agile methods for systems engineering. Next, each recipe will take you through initiating a project, outlining stakeholder needs, defining and analyzing system requirements, specifying system architecture, performing model-based engineering trade studies, all the way to handling systems specifications off to downstream engineering. By the end of this MBSE book, you'll learn how to implement systems engineering workflows and create systems engineering models.What you will learnLearn how to apply modelling to create and manage important engineering dataApply agile methods to develop systems engineering specificationsCommunicate decisions with downstream subsystem implementation teamsCoordinate with engineers from other disciplinesApply MBSE practices to problems within simple systems or large systemsEnsure accurate systems models via tests, simulation, and verificationWho this book is forIf you are a systems engineer who wants to pursue model-based systems engineering in an agile setting, this book will show you how you can do that without breaking a sweat. Fundamental knowledge of SysML is necessary; the book will teach you the rest.
Agile Office 365: Successful Project Delivery Practices for an Evolving Platform
by Haniel CroitoruPlan, deploy, and run Office 365 using an agile project management approach. This soup-to-nuts guide teaches you how to apply agile techniques in order to make your Office 365 implementation a success, even as the Microsoft Office 365 platform continues to evolve and introduce new features.The author's approach to teaching time- and resource-saving concepts mirrors the process a team might typically encounter in delivering software projects. Learning begins with an overview of Office 365 and Agile. From there, you delve into topics correlating to product conception, execution, and deployment. The book wraps up with a comprehensive discussion on how Office 365, straight out of the box, can be used as a tool to manage Office 365 deployments and other types of projects.What You'll LearnUnderstand what Office 365 is and why it is the world’s most popular online business appAdapt your delivery process to work with Office 365 and its regular update scheduleRecognize potential risk areas and develop mitigation strategiesDiscover the tools that are available to make your life easierManage the transition from deployment to operationsFollow end-to-end guidance packed with useful case studies and tools to make your job easierWho This Book Is ForProject managers, business analysts, IT managers, and other team members involved in managing Office 365 in order to deliver solutions for their organization. While not required, a basic understanding of Agile methodologies and Office 365 is useful.
Agile Performance Improvement: The New Synergy of Agile and Human Performance Technology
by Bob Winter"1+1=3. That is the equation that summarizes the theme of this book. The book’s message is to integrate the developmental principles of Agile with the result-focused approaches integral to performance consulting. Your outcomes in shaping human performance will be significant--and greater than if you only used one of these models. This is a book for anyone who seeks to work collaboratively with leaders to bring about continuously improving and sustainable organizational change." --Dana Gaines Robinson, coauthor of Performance ConsultingAgile Performance Improvement demonstrates the mutual benefits that accrue to the worlds of performance consulting and agile software development when the values and principles of both are blended synergistically under the guidance of practitioners skilled in both. The agile performance improvement model blends the principles of human performance technology with the frameworks and practices of Agile. The result is an approach that maximizes the value of interactions among the consultant, the work team, and the customer. Unlike traditional end-to-end waterfall processes, agile performance improvement delivers value continuously and in small increments, relentlessly focusing on outcomes of value to the customer. Building on structures of Agile that are used in software development, such as Scrum, the agile performance improvement model considers the human component of holistic solutions in establishing a continuous stream of value.Bob Winter, a performance consultant, was the product owner for the corporate education scrum supporting an agile transition initiative for hundreds of engineering teams. From this cross-disciplinary experience, he discovered that the two cultures, two languages, and two methodologies of performance consulting and agile software development are—far from being incongruent, incompatible, or irrelevant to each other—in fact ideally suited to complement and support each other. Being agile improves the effectiveness of the performance consultant, and applying the lessons of human performance technology improves the effectiveness of software development teams.In Agile Performance Improvement, Winter teaches performance consultants how to apply agile principles, values, and methods usefully to the tasks of optimizing human performance in areas of practice not only adjoining but also well beyond the realm of software and IT engineering, such as corporate learning solutions, human resources systems, and non-software products. Conversely, he shows engineering teams immersed in an agile environment how to boost their performance using the principles and techniques taught and cultivated by performance consultants. The author, who has worked extensively on both sides of the traditional divide, recounts entertainingly but informatively how both sparks and fur can fly when geeks encounter people people.
Agile Portfolio Management
by Jochen KrebsAgile development processes foster better collaboration, innovation, and results. So why limit their use to software projects--when you can transform your entire business? Written by agile-mentoring expert Jochen Krebs, this book illuminates the opportunities--and rewards--of applying agile processes to your overall IT portfolio. Whether project manager, business analyst, or executive--you'll understand the business drivers behind agile portfolio management. And learn best practices for optimizing results. Use agile processes to align IT and business strategy Adapt and extend core agile processes Orchestrate the collaboration between IT and business vision Eliminate wish-list driven requirements, and manage expectations instead Optimize the balance of projects, resources, and assets in your portfolio Use metrics to communicate project status, quality, even team morale Create a portfolio strategy consistent with the goals of the organization Achieve organizational and process transparency Manage your business with agility--and help maximize the returns!
Agile Practice Guide
by Project Management InstituteAgile Practice Guide – First Edition has been developed as a resource to understand, evaluate, and use agile and hybrid agile approaches. This practice guide provides guidance on when, where, and how to apply agile approaches and provides practical tools for practitioners and organizations wanting to increase agility. This practice guide is aligned with other PMI standards, including A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, and was developed as the result of collaboration between the Project Management Institute and the Agile Alliance.
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops: XP 2019 Workshops, Montréal, QC, Canada, May 21–25, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #364)
by Rashina HodaThis open access book constitutes the research workshops, doctoral symposium and panel summaries presented at the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a hybrid forum where agile researchers, academics, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. Following this history, for both researchers and seasoned practitioners XP 2019 provided an informal environment to network, share, and discover trends in Agile for the next 20 years. Research papers and talks submissions were invited for the three XP 2019 research workshops, namely, agile transformation, autonomous teams, and large scale agile. This book includes 15 related papers. In addition, a summary for each of the four panels at XP 2019 is included. The panels were on security and privacy; the impact of the agile manifesto on culture, education, and software practices; business agility – agile’s next frontier; and Agile – the next 20 years.