0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Software engineering

Buy Now

Scaling Software Agility - Best Practices for Large Enterprises (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,189
Discovery Miles 11 890
You Save: R136 (10%)

Scaling Software Agility - Best Practices for Large Enterprises (Paperback)

Dean Leffingwell

 (sign in to rate)
List price R1,325 Loot Price R1,189 Discovery Miles 11 890 | Repayment Terms: R111 pm x 12* You Save R136 (10%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

"Companies have been implementing large agile projects for a number of years, but the 'stigma' of 'agile only works for small projects' continues to be a frequent barrier for newcomers and a rallying cry for agile critics. What has been missing from the agile literature is a solid, practical book on the specifics of developing large projects in an agile way. Dean Leffingwell's book Scaling Software Agility fills this gap admirably. It offers a practical guide to large project issues such as architecture, requirements development, multi-level release planning, and team organization. Leffingwell's book is a necessary guide for large projects and large organizations making the transition to agile development." -Jim Highsmith, director, Agile Practice, Cutter Consortium, author of Agile Project Management "There's tension between building software fast and delivering software that lasts, between being ultra-responsive to changes in the market and maintaining a degree of stability. In his latest work, Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell shows how to achieve a pragmatic balance among these forces. Leffingwell's observations of the problem, his advice on the solution, and his description of the resulting best practices come from experience: he's been there, done that, and has seen what's worked." -Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Agile development practices, while still controversial in some circles, offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer requirements, and higher quality. However, agile practices have been defined and recommended primarily to small teams. In Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods can be applied to enterprise-class development. Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective agile methods. Part II describes seven best practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level. Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that companies can master to achieve the full benefits of software agility on an enterprise scale. This book is invaluable to software developers, testers and QA personnel, managers and team leads, as well as to executives of software organizations whose objective is to increase the quality and productivity of the software development process but who are faced with all the challenges of developing software on an enterprise scale. Foreword Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Part I: Overview of Software Agility Chapter 1: Introduction to Agile Methods Chapter 2: Why the Waterfall Model Doesn't Work Chapter 3: The Essence of XP Chapter 4: The Essence of Scrum Chapter 5: The Essence of RUP Chapter 6: Lean Software, DSDM, and FDD Chapter 7: The Essence of Agile Chapter 8: The Challenge of Scaling Agile Part II: Seven Agile Team Practices That Scale Chapter 9: The Define/Build/Test Component Team Chapter 10: Two Levels of Planning and Tracking Chapter 11: Mastering the Iteration Chapter 12: Smaller, More Frequent Releases Chapter 13: Concurrent Testing Chapter 14: Continuous Integration Chapter 15: Regular Reflection and Adaptation Part III: Creating the Agile Enterprise Chapter 16: Intentional Architecture Chapter 17: Lean Requirements at Scale: Vision, Roadmap, and Just-in-Time Elaboration Chapter 18: Systems of Systems and the Agile Release Train Chapter 19: Managing Highly Distributed Development Chapter 20: Impact on Customers and Operations Chapter 21: Changing the Organization Chapter 22: Measuring Business Performance Conclusion: Agility Works at Scale Bibliography Index

General

Imprint: Addison Wesley
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2007
First published: 2007
Authors: Dean Leffingwell
Dimensions: 235 x 187 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-45819-3
Categories: Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Software engineering
LSN: 0-321-45819-2
Barcode: 9780321458193

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Programming Logic & Design…
Joyce Farrell Paperback R1,304 R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660
Using UML - Software Engineering with…
Perdita Stevens Paperback R2,219 Discovery Miles 22 190
Software Engineering for Real-Time…
Jim Cooling Paperback R2,394 R2,074 Discovery Miles 20 740
Writing Better Requirements - Writing…
Ian Alexander, Richard Stevens Paperback R1,296 Discovery Miles 12 960
Software Requirements - Styles and…
Soren Lauesen Paperback R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810
Design and Use of Software Architectures…
Jan Bosch Paperback R1,599 Discovery Miles 15 990
Software Requirements And Specifications…
M. Jackson Paperback R1,428 Discovery Miles 14 280
Software Inspection
Tom Gilb, Dorothy Graham Paperback R1,681 Discovery Miles 16 810
The Business Analyst - Information…
Vernon Zwiers Paperback R657 R579 Discovery Miles 5 790
ISE Object-Oriented Software…
David Kung Paperback R1,882 Discovery Miles 18 820
Foundations of Software Testing - ISTQB…
Dorothy Graham, Rex Black, … Paperback R926 R845 Discovery Miles 8 450
Model-Driven Software Development with…
Kevin Lano Paperback R1,626 R1,437 Discovery Miles 14 370

See more

Partners