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Agile Project Management using Team Foundation Server 2015
by Joachim RossbergThis book will help you get started with agile project management using Microsoft's latest releases of its market-leading Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015, and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The book demonstrates agile concepts and how to implement them using TFS/VSTS. Many organizations are using agile practices today. Agility has become a key enabler for running better projects with more successful end results and high quality output. At the same time, adoption of TFS/VSTS has increased dramatically, from being just a new version control system in the very beginning to becoming the fully-featured market leader it is today. In order to benefit the most from agile practices you need an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset that supports your way of working. With TFS/VSTS, Microsoft has provided a powerful tool that is very customizable. This book shows you how you can use TFS/VSTS to implement many agile practices and how they fit into a well-thought-out ALM implementation. The book also shows how an agile product owner can work with TFS/VSTS to setup an agile project from scratch and how to continue using TFS/VSTS throughout the whole project to track progress, create and refine the backlog, and work with Kanban and Scrum Task boards. Keeping track of progress is important in any project. TFS/VSO includes many tools which will help you to track key metrics in an agile project. Many useful reports are available out of the box, and the TFS extensibility offers several ways to further customize reporting to fit your needs. What you'll learn Agile Concepts and Processes How TFS/VSO supports agile processes end to end How you can customize TFS/VSO to better support your processes How to set up an agile project from scratch and manage it over its lifecycle Who this book is for Software Engineers, Software Product Owners, Project Managers, Scrum Masters,
Agile Project Management with Azure DevOps: Concepts, Templates, and Metrics
by Joachim RossbergRoll up your sleeves and jump into Agile project management to use and customize Microsoft Azure DevOps. Organizations adopt Agile practices because they are a key enabler to run better projects, get more successful end results, and achieve an overall higher quality output. To benefit the most from Agile, you need an Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) or DevOps toolset that supports your style and work environment. Agile Project Management with Azure DevOps teaches you how to use Azure DevOps to implement many Agile practices such as SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, and it shows you how they fit into a well-planned Agile implementation. Agile product owners will learn how to work with Azure DevOps to set up a project from scratch, and to continue using Azure DevOps throughout. Keeping track of progress is important in any project. Author Joachim Rossberg teaches you about the tools in Azure DevOps that can help you track progress and key metrics, including those that are available right out of the box. You will learn how to create and refine the backlog, work with Kanban and Scrum task boards, and get exposed to valuable key concepts along the way. Finally, you will dive into Azure DevOps extensibility to learn about the many ways you can customize reporting to best meet your needsWhat You'll LearnUnderstand Agile product management concepts and processes for working with Azure DevOps Discover how Azure DevOps supports agile processes end-to-endImplement Agile processes in Azure DevOpsCustomize Azure DevOps to better support your processesComplete step-by-step setup of an Agile project from scratch and manage it through its life cycleWho This Book Is ForSoftware product owners, Agile leaders, Scrum masters, and software engineers who use Microsoft Azure DevOps. A basic understanding of Agile is helpful.
Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints
by Jaibeer MalikA step-by-step tutorial-based approach.This book is of great help for agile teams who are already using or planning to use the GreenHopper tooling system to execute agile projects. It suits all roles in an agile project including system administrators, stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and team members. Fundamental knowledge of JIRA is essential.
Agile Project Management with Scrum
by Ken SchwaberThe rules and practices for Scrum--a simple process for managing complex projects--are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum's simplicity itself--its lack of prescription--can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons--the successes and failures--culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management. Through them, you'll understand how to use Scrum to solve complex problems and drive better results--delivering more valuable software faster. Gain the foundation in Scrum theory--and practice--you need to: Rein in even the most complex, unwieldy projects Effectively manage unknown or changing product requirements Simplify the chain of command with self-managing development teams Receive clearer specifications--and feedback--from customers Greatly reduce project planning time and required tools Build--and release--products in 30-day cycles so clients get deliverables earlier Avoid missteps by regularly inspecting, reporting on, and fine-tuning projects Support multiple teams working on a large-scale project from many geographic locations Maximize return on investment!
Agile Project Management: Managing For Success
by James A. Crowder Shelli FriessManagement and enables them to deal with the demands and complexities of modern, agile systems/software/hardware development teams. The book examines the project/program manager beyond the concepts of leadership and aims to connect to employees' sense of identity. The text examines human psychological concepts such as "locus of control," which will help the manager understand their team members' view and how best to manage their "world" contributions. The authors cover new management tools and philosophies for agile systems/software/hardware development teams, with a specific focus on how this relates to engineering and computer science. This book also includes practical case studies. Discusses management skills needed as they relate to the advances in software development practices Examines how to manage an agile development team that includes teams across geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse backgrounds Embraces all of the aspects of modern management and leadership
Agile Prozesse – Agile Teams
by Eckhart HanserDas Buch beschreibt kurz und prägnant die aktuellen agilen Prozessmodelle der Software-Entwicklung. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die historische Entwicklung werden, ausgehend vom Agilen Manifest und den ersten agilen Modellen Extreme Programming (XP) und Crystal, aktuelle Vertreter wie Scrum, Kanban und DevOps näher beleuchtet. Dabei stehen Ablauf des Prozesses, Teamrollen und Artefakte im Vordergrund. Im studentischen Labor des Kompetenzzentrums für agile IT-Prozesse der Dualen Hochschule Baden Württemberg Lörrach werden die diskutierten Prozessmodelle auf ihre „Alltagstauglichkeit“ überprüft. Welche agilen Praktiken sind problemlos, welche stoßen auf Ablehnung der Teammitglieder? Ausgehend von diesen Erfahrungen wird der Teamprozess beleuchtet, insbesondere die Bildung von „Mini-Teams“, der kleinsten Produktiveinheit im Entwicklungsteam. Für den Erfolg eines Projekts unerlässliche Teamrollen werden identifiziert und im „Meta Agile Process Model“ (MAP) formuliert. Ausgehend von der „Karte der Verhaltensweisen“ im Team wird eine Methode zur optimalen Teambildung vorgeschlagen.
Agile Prozesse: [von Xp Über Scrum Bis Map (eXamen.press)
by Eckhart HanserDas Buch beschäftigt sich mit aktuellen agilen Prozessmodellen der Software-Entwicklung. Der Autor stellt prominente Vertreter wie Extreme Programming, Crystal, Crystal Clear und Scrum vor. Dabei stehen Ablauf, Produktrollen und Artefakte im Vordergrund. Ausgehend von Erfahrungen mit agilen Techniken im studentischen Entwicklungslabor wird der Teamprozess beleuchtet, insbesondere die Bildung von Mini-Teams. Die für den Erfolg eines Projekts unerlässlichen Teamrollen werden identifiziert und eine Methode zur optimalen Teambildung vorgeschlagen.
Agile Retrospectives, Second Edition
by David Horowitz Esther Derby Diana LarsenIn an uncertain and complex world, learning is more important than ever before. In fact, it can be a competitive advantage. Teams and organizations that learn rapidly deliver greater customer value faster and more reliably. Furthermore, those teams are more engaged, more productive, and more satisfied. The most effective way to enable teams to learn is by holding regular retrospectives. Unfortunately, many teams only get shallow results from their retrospectives. This book is filled with practical advice, techniques, and real-life examples that will take retrospectives to the next level--whether your team is co-located, hybrid, or remote. This book will help team leads, scrum masters, and coaches engage their teams to learn, improve, and deliver greater results. For nearly two decades, scrum masters, team leads, and coaches have relied on the first edition of Agile Retrospectivesas an essential resource to facilitate better retrospectives. This edition builds on recent research, reflects the authors' experiences over two decades, and shares wisdom gleaned from the global retrospective community. Find practical advice to level up retrospective skills. Address the challenges of remote and hybrid retrospectives head on. Take advantage of expanded guidance on designing and facilitating retrospectives--based on the questions and concerns of practitioners worldwide. Gain insight into choosing a broad or narrow focus for retrospectives. Explore how to use both objective and subjective data to enable more effective conversations. Learn how to make decisions that stick. Understand the importance of psychological safety and how to foster it in retrospectives. Elevate issues and engage managers in systemic change. Learn from many real-life stories that demonstrate how our advice has impacted retrospectives at organizations around the globe. Finally, find a set of recommended flows that reveal the authors' thought process in designing retrospectives for scenarios teams faced in real life.
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Ken Schwaber Esther Derby Diana LarsenProject retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. Now Esther and Diana show you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. You’ll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these techniques up. You’ll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project—not just at the end. This book will help you: Design and run effective retrospectivesLearn how to find and fix problemsFind and reinforce team strengthsAddress people issues as well as technologicalUse tools and recipes proven in the real world With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra.
Agile Risk Management (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Alan MoranThis work is the definitive guide for IT managers and agile practitioners. It elucidates the principles of agile risk management and how these relate to individual projects. Explained in clear and concise terms, this synthesis of project risk management and agile techniques is illustrated using the major methodologies such as XP, Scrum and DSDM. Although the agile community frequently cites risk management, research suggests that risk is often narrowly defined and, at best, implicitly treated, which in turn leads to an inability to make informed decisions concerning risk and reward and a poor understanding of when to engage in risk-related activities. Moreover, the absence of reference to enterprise risk management means that project managers are unable to clearly articulate scope or tailor their projects in line with the wider expectations of the organisation. Yet the agile approach, with its rich toolset of techniques, is very well equipped to effectively and efficiently deal with the risks that arise in projects. Alan Moran addresses the above issues by proposing an agile risk-management process derived from classical risk management but adapted to the circumstances of agile projects. Though his main focus is on the software development process, much of what he describes could be applied to other types of IT projects as well. This book is intended for anyone who is serious about balancing risk and reward in the pursuit of value for their stakeholders, and in particular for those directly involved in agile software development who share a concern for how risk should be managed. Whilst a thorough background in risk management is not presumed, a basic level of familiarity with or exposure to agility is helpful.
Agile SAP
by Sean RobsonMany projects that use the SAP Enterprise software follow waterfall methodologies, but these often run into budgeting and scheduling problems. In this unique book, Sean Robson presents the relatively new Agile approach to SAP implementation which has proven to be very successful in real-world projects. The approach enables you to greatly improve your SAP implementations, reduce risks, and help to bring your projects in on schedule and within budget. Using strategies based on the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto, the book focuses on the use of Scrum and Kanban and their suitability for certain types of projects, enabling you to select the most appropriate method for the task in hand. Throughout the book, the author gives the benefit of his vast experience, giving practical advice on the most effective way to see your Agile SAP project through from beginning to end.
Agile Security Operations: Engineering for agility in cyber defense, detection, and response
by Hinne HettemaGet to grips with security operations through incident response, the ATT&CK framework, active defense, and agile threat intelligenceKey FeaturesExplore robust and predictable security operations based on measurable service performanceLearn how to improve the security posture and work on security auditsDiscover ways to integrate agile security operations into development and operationsBook DescriptionAgile security operations allow organizations to survive cybersecurity incidents, deliver key insights into the security posture of an organization, and operate security as an integral part of development and operations. It is, deep down, how security has always operated at its best.Agile Security Operations will teach you how to implement and operate an agile security operations model in your organization. The book focuses on the culture, staffing, technology, strategy, and tactical aspects of security operations. You'll learn how to establish and build a team and transform your existing team into one that can execute agile security operations. As you progress through the chapters, you'll be able to improve your understanding of some of the key concepts of security, align operations with the rest of the business, streamline your operations, learn how to report to senior levels in the organization, and acquire funding.By the end of this Agile book, you'll be ready to start implementing agile security operations, using the book as a handy reference.What you will learnGet acquainted with the changing landscape of security operationsUnderstand how to sense an attacker's motives and capabilitiesGrasp key concepts of the kill chain, the ATT&CK framework, and the Cynefin frameworkGet to grips with designing and developing a defensible security architectureExplore detection and response engineeringOvercome challenges in measuring the security postureDerive and communicate business values through security operationsDiscover ways to implement security as part of development and business operationsWho this book is forThis book is for new and established CSOC managers as well as CISO, CDO, and CIO-level decision-makers. If you work as a cybersecurity engineer or analyst, you'll find this book useful. Intermediate-level knowledge of incident response, cybersecurity, and threat intelligence is necessary to get started with the book.
Agile Security in the Digital Era: Challenges and Cybersecurity Trends
by Justin Zhang Mounia Zaydi Youness Khourdifi Bouchaib NassereddineIn an era defined by rapid digital transformation, Agile Security in the Digital Era: Challenges and Cybersecurity Trends emerges as a pivotal resource for navigating the complex and ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how agile methodologies can be integrated into cybersecurity practices to address both current challenges and anticipate future threats. Through a blend of theoretical insights and practical applications, it equips professionals with the tools necessary to develop proactive security strategies that are robust, flexible, and effective. The key features of the book below highlight these innovative approaches.· Integration of agile practices: Detailed guidance on incorporating agile methodologies into cybersecurity frameworks to enhance adaptability and responsiveness.· Comprehensive case studies: Real-world applications and case studies that demonstrate the successful implementation of agile security strategies across various industries.· Future-proof security tactics: Insights into emerging technologies such as blockchain and IoT, offering a forward-looking perspective on how to harness these innovations securely.Intended for cybersecurity professionals, IT managers, and policymakers, Agile Security in the Digital Era serves as an essential guide to understanding and implementing advanced security measures in a digital world. The book provides actionable intelligence and strategies, enabling readers to stay ahead of the curve in a landscape where agile responsiveness is just as crucial as defensive capability. With its focus on cutting-edge research and practical solutions, this book is a valuable asset for anyone committed to securing digital assets against the increasing sophistication of cyber threats.
Agile Service Development: Combining Adaptive Methods and Flexible Solutions (The Enterprise Engineering Series)
by Marc LankhorstEconomies around the globe have evolved into being largely service-oriented economies. Consumers no longer just want a printer or a car, they rather ask for a printing service or a mobility service. In addition, service-oriented organizations increasingly exploit new devices, technologies and infrastructures. Agility is the ability to deal with such changing requirements and environments. Agile ways of working embrace change as a positive force and harness it to the organization's competitive advantage. The approach described in this book focuses on the notion of a service as a piece of functionality that offers value to its customers. Instead of solely looking at agility in the context of system or software development, agility is approached in a broader context. The authors illustrate three kinds of agility that can be found in an agile enterprise: business, process and system agility. These three types of agility reinforce each other and establish the foundation for the agile enterprise. Architecture, patterns, models, and all of the best practices in system development contribute to agile service development and building agile applications. This book addresses two audiences. On the one hand, it aims at agile and architecture practitioners who are looking for more agile ways of working in designing and building business services or who are interested in extending and improving their agile methods by using models and model-based architectures. On the other hand, it addresses students of (enterprise) architecture and software development or service science courses, both in computer science and in business administration.
Agile Software Development (IT Pro Practice Notes)
by Peter WlodarczakAgile Software Development is an introduction to agile software development methods. Agile methods try to diminish complexity, increase transparency, and reach a deployable product in a shorter time frame. Agile methods use an iterative and incremental approach to minimize risks and to avoid maldevelopment. The book gives a short introduction to agile methods and agile software development principles. It serves as a study book and as a reference manual. Based on the official Scrum Guide, the book also covers other topics such as best practices for agile software development and agile testing. It targets practitioners who want to start with agile software development, as well as developers or project managers who already use agile methodologies. The book can be read from the beginning, but each chapter has been written in a way so it can be read individually.
Agile Software Development Teams: The Impact Of Agile Development On Team Performance (Progress in IS #0)
by Christoph SchmidtThis book explores how agile development practices, in particular pair programming, code review and automated testing, help software development teams to perform better. Agile software engineering has become the standard software development paradigm over the last decade, and the insights provided here are taken from a large-scale survey of 80 professional software development teams working at SAP SE in Germany. In addition, the book introduces a novel measurement tool for assessing the performance of software development teams. No previous study has researched this topic with a similar data set comprising insights from more than 450 professional software engineers.
Agile Software Development with HP Agile Manager
by Liran TalAgile development practices have been widely adopted in a variety of organizations, yet only a few tools are available to help make the practical process of managing agile teams less painful and more successful. HP Agile Manager is a purpose-built SaaS-based Agile planning tool. HP Agile Manager provides a simpler, smarter way to manage collaborative development. Liran Tal provides a practical, concise approach to using Agile Manager in a variety of settings to better plan, conduct, and manage software releases within development teams. His step-by-step approach will show you how to plan your product's features, streamline the agile sprint process, work with user stories, and track defects throughout the development process. Agile Manager can work for small startups, mid-sized teams, as well as scale up for bigger organizations as a cost-effective and flexible tool to apply agile techniques to improve your software development process. What you'll learn How to apply the concepts of agile management in software development teams to better execute and increase performance and delivery How a software release cycle works, how to manage sprints, set timelines, build a products backlog, and manage day to day team tasks How to leverage agile best practices to guide your team through effective release planning and team collaboration Understand and apply agile software delivery concepts such, estimating and prioritizing user stories. Streamlining sprints planning, execution, and retrospective How to setup, and use HP Agile Manager to effectively manage software lifecycle through agile methodology, and learn how to leverage Agile Manager's flexible workflow to meet your team requirements and processes Using Agile Manager's dashboards for real-time view into the current status of releases, and sprints to gain insights and pro-actively respond to changes, as well as tracking your team progress, work-load, and keeping an eye on tasks burn-down, or cumulative flow Who this book is for Developers, quality engineers, development team leaders and new managers will find this book to serve them well in learning and applying agile methodologies in their teams. Table of Contents Chapter 1 - The Agile World Chapter 2 - Getting Started with Agile Manager Chapter 3 - Setup your Agile Manager Chapter 4 - Building the Product Backlog Chapter 5 - Streamlining work in the Release Backlog Chapter 6 - The Dashboard Chapter 7 - Helpful Resources and Support
Agile Software Development: Best Practices for Large Software Development Projects
by Thomas Stober Uwe HansmannSoftware Development is moving towards a more agile and more flexible approach. It turns out that the traditional "waterfall" model is not supportive in an environment where technical, financial and strategic constraints are changing almost every day. But what is agility? What are today's major approaches? And especially: What is the impact of agile development principles on the development teams, on project management and on software architects? How can large enterprises become more agile and improve their business processes, which have been existing since many, many years? What are the limitations of Agility? And what is the right balance between reliable structures and flexibility? This book will give answers to these questions. A strong emphasis will be on real life project examples, which describe how development teams have moved from a waterfall model towards an Agile Software Development approach.
Agile Software Development: Trends, Challenges and Applications
by Yashwant Singh Susheela Hooda Vandana Mohindru Sood Sandeep Dalal Manu SoodAGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT A unique title that introduces the whole range of agile software development processes from the fundamental concepts to the highest levels of applications such as requirement analysis, software testing, quality assurance, and risk management. Agile Software Development (ASD) has become a popular technology because its methods apply to any programming paradigm. It is important in the software development process because it emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continuous planning, and learning over delivering everything at once near the end. Agile has gained popularity as a result of its use of various frameworks, methods, and techniques to improve software quality. Scrum is a major agile framework that has been widely adopted by the software development community. Metaheuristic techniques have been used in the agile software development process to improve software quality and reliability. These techniques not only improve quality and reliability but also test cases, resulting in cost-effective and time-effective software. However, many significant research challenges must be addressed to put such ASD capabilities into practice. With the use of diverse techniques, guiding principles, artificial intelligence, soft computing, and machine learning, this book seeks to study theoretical and technological research findings on all facets of ASD. Also, it sheds light on the latest trends, challenges, and applications in the area of ASD. This book explores the theoretical as well as the technical research outcomes on all the aspects of Agile Software Development by using various methods, principles, artificial intelligence, soft computing, and machine learning. Audience The book is designed for computer scientists and software engineers both in research and industry. Graduate and postgraduate students will find the book accessible as well.
Agile Software Engineering: 12th International Conference, Xp 2011, Madrid, Spain, May 10-13, 2011, Proceedings (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science #77)
by Orit Hazzan Yael DubinskyThis textbook presents the current issues in software development methods. Special emphasis is placed on agile software development, being one of the mainstream paradigms for the management of software projects. Features and topics: (1) Examines the Agile manifesto and its implications. (2) Discusses the delivery of software projects on time and within budgets by using agile software development environment. (3) Considers the customer role in agile software development environments. (4) Looks at measures to control and monitor the software development process. (5) Offers Agile software development processes from a cognitive perspective. (6) Explores the concept of agility from the management perspective. (7) Investigates the impact of agility on the organization level. (8) The wider context of each topic to software engineering is emphasized. This comprehensive and concise introduction offers a reader-friendly approach to the topic. Written for advanced undergraduates, this clear foundation course will also be valuable for practitioners.
Agile Strategy Management in the Digital Age: How Dynamic Balanced Scorecards Transform Decision Making, Speed and Effectiveness
by James Creelman David WiraeusIn a world of rapid and unpredictable change, the problem with strategic planning is that if you follow your plan through to the end, you will get exactly what you used to want. What you need is a framework for planning and implementing a strategy that is agile enough to adapt to a dynamic environment but focused enough to deliver. That framework is the Dynamic Balanced Scorecard. The original Balanced Scorecard system has proven the most popular, successful and enduring framework for strategy execution over the last 25 years. Comprising a Strategy Map and a scorecard of KPIs, targets and initiatives, the framework helped organizations distil a strategy into actionable components and measure progress towards a strategic vision, while also implementing and monitoring the actions that drove change. However, for all its success, the Balanced Scorecard system now needs to evolve for the digital age. Until now, building the system, rolling it out enterprise-wide and adapting it to external changes has been a lengthy process. While the fundamental principles of the system are still sound and relevant, it needs to become nimbler and more responsive. The book provides a step-by-step guide to agile strategy management: from formulation to implementation to learning and adapting. For each of the steps, the book explains how Dynamic Balanced Scorecards, fit for the digital age, are built and deployed.
Agile Strategy Management: Techniques for Continuous Alignment and Improvement (ESI International Project Management Series #18)
by Soren LyngsoYour strategic initiatives are constantly under fire due to the evolving nature of markets, technology, laws, and government. To ensure your strategy succeeds, it must remain flexible while confronting these shifting challenges. Agile Strategy Management: Techniques for Continuous Alignment and Improvement explains how to achieve this flexibility by building agility into the initiation, development, implementation, and governance of your strategic initiatives.The book details what it takes to initiate, develop, implement, and govern a healthy strategy that delivers the benefits expected by all stakeholders. It presents insights gained by the author’s organization over the last 25 years helping their clients achieve success with their strategic initiatives. Filled with real-world examples and case studies, it illustrates wide-ranging situations where the author’s company helped clients reach important business objectives.Readers can use the book to look up examples that describe the various ways to use agile methods and techniques for critical business functions, including: Scope definition of strategic initiatives Stakeholder identification Team building Project and program quality management Change management Procurement of resources Solution development, implementation, and quality management Strategy governance In this book, you will find guidelines that explain how to establish internal organizations for change and how to ensure these intermediate organizations stay motivated until final solution delivery. Presenting success stories as well as major blunders, the book can help you avoid many of the pitfalls that other organizations have experienced while governing their strategic initiatives.
Agile Swift: Swift Programming Using Agile Tools and Techniques
by Godfrey NolanMake your Swift apps agile and sound with this short step by step guide. You'll learn about unit testing, mocking and continuous integration and how to get these key ingredients running in your Swift projects. This book also looks at how to write your Swift apps using test driven development (TDD). Agile practices have made major inroads in iOS development, however it's very unusual to see something as basic as unit testing on a Swift application. Done correctly, Agile development results in a significant increase in development efficiency and a reduction in the number of defects. Apple has released unit testing and code coverage frameworks for Swift development in XCode. Up until now getting unit testing up and running in Swift was not for the faint-hearted. Thankfully now, there is no excuse other than a lack of information on where to get started. iOS developers are faced with their own set of problems such as tightly coupled code, fragmentation, immature testing tools all of which can be solved using existing Agile tools and techniques. Swift Programming Using Agile Tools and Techniques is your solution to handling these tasks. What You Will Learn Write unit tests in Swift Write an application using test driven development Examine GUI testing, refactoring, and mocking frameworks Set up and configure a continuous integration server Measure code coverage Who This Book Is For Swift developers and would be mobile app testers will benefit from the guidance in this book.
Agile Technical Practices Distilled: Become agile and efficient by mastering software design
by Pedro M. Santos Marco Consolaro Alessandro Di GioiaDelve deep into the various technical practices, principles, and values of Agile. Key Features Discover the essence of Agile software development and the key principles of software design Explore the fundamental practices of Agile working, including test-driven development (TDD), refactoring, pair programming, and continuous integration Learn and apply the four elements of simple design Book Description The number of popular technical practices has grown exponentially in the last few years. Learning the common fundamental software development practices can help you become a better programmer. This book uses the term Agile as a wide umbrella and covers Agile principles and practices, as well as most methodologies associated with it. You'll begin by discovering how driver-navigator, chess clock, and other techniques used in the pair programming approach introduce discipline while writing code. You'll then learn to safely change the design of your code using refactoring. While learning these techniques, you'll also explore various best practices to write efficient tests. The concluding chapters of the book delve deep into the SOLID principles - the five design principles that you can use to make your software more understandable, flexible and maintainable. By the end of the book, you will have discovered new ideas for improving your software design skills, the relationship within your team, and the way your business works. What you will learn Apply the red, green, refactor cycle of TDD to solve procedural problems Implement the various techniques used in the pair programming approach Use code smells as feedback Test your production code using mocks and stubs Refactor legacy code to bring it in line with modern Agile standards Apply the object calisthenics ruleset to enhance your software design Who this book is for This book is designed for software developers looking to improve their technical practices. Software coaches may also find it helpful as a teaching reference manual. This is not a beginner's book on how to program. You must be comfortable with at least one programming language and must be able to write unit tests using any unit testing framework.
Agile UX Storytelling: Crafting Stories for Better Software Development
by Rebecca BakerLearn how to use stories throughout the agile software development lifecycle. Through lessons and examples, Agile UX Storytelling demonstrates to product owners, customers, scrum masters, software developers, and designers how to craft stories to facilitate communication, identify problems and patterns, refine collaborative understanding, accelerate delivery, and communicate the business value of deliverables. Rebecca Baker applies the techniques of storytelling to all facets of the software development lifecycle--planning, requirements gathering, internal and external communication, design, and testing--and shows how to use stories to improve the delivery process. What You'll Learn * Craft stories to facilitate communication within the project team and with stakeholders * Leverage stories to identify problems and patterns, accelerate delivery, and communicate business value * Apply storytelling techniques to all stages of the SDLC * Marshal user stories to focus requirements gathering and ensure a consistent message Who This Book Is For All SDLC and UX roles: product owners, customers, scrum masters, software developers, and UX designers