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by Mario E. Moreira
Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile
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Apress Business: The Unbiased Source of Business Information
Dedication
Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1: Getting Started
Purpose of This Book
What You Will Learn
Who This Book Is For
How to Navigate This Book
CHAPTER 2: Crossing the Agile Chasm
Agile Is Really a Culture Change
Technology Adoption Lifecycle
CHAPTER 3: Business Benefits of Being Agile
Show Me the Money
Engaging Your Customers and Employees
Agile Value to Incentive Differentiator (AVID)
Elusive Customer Value
Agile Business Strategy
CHAPTER 4: Importance of Customer Engagement
Continuous Customer Engagement
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Getting to Continuous Customer Engagement
CHAPTER 5: Importance of Employee Engagement
Employee Empowerment
Self-Organizing Teams
Understanding Value-Added Work
Customers and Employees Matter: Are We There Yet?
CHAPTER 6: Foundations of Agile
Agile Is a Set of Values and Principles ... Seriously!
Introduction to Agile Processes and Methodologies
Back to Values and Principles
CHAPTER 7: Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone (RICH) Deployment Model
Readiness Activities for Agile Transformation
Implementation Activities for Agile Transformation
Coaching Activities for Agile Transformation
Honing Activities for Agile Transformation
Are You Ready?
CHAPTER 8: Motivations for Moving to an Agile Culture
Communicating Motivations
Adapting Rewards
Managing Resistance
Common Motivations for Moving to Agile
Benefit of Establishing a Common Understanding of Agile
Aligning Storytelling with the Culture You Want
Building the Agile Culture You Want
CHAPTER 9: Achieving an Agile Mindset
Dissecting the Agile Principles
A Group Exercise on the Principles
CHAPTER 10: Evaluating Executive Support and Team Willingness
Agile Personality Types
Executive/Senior Management Support
Breakfast of Champions
CHAPTER 11: Treating Agile as a Transformation Project
Scope of Agile Deployment
Agile Deployment Team
Agile Deployment Backlog
Agile Process for Agile Deployment
Agile Communication Plan
Considering Work Suitable for Agile
Deciding Which Teams Go First
Aligning the Agile Deployment around Product Release Schedules
Project Framework to Transform
CHAPTER 12: Adapting to Agile Roles and Responsibilities
Core Agile Roles
Agile Roles beyond Core
More Roles
Product Team and Organizational Restructuring
What Does Your Team Look Like?
CHAPTER 13: Evaluating Agile, Engineering, and Team Capability
Agile Practices Adoption
Agile Mindset, Values, and Principles Advisor
Engineering Practices
Agile Team Capability
Baseline and Improve
CHAPTER 14: Establishing Agile Measures of Success
Lagging-to-Leading Metric Path
Value of a Metric
Organizational and Product Team Metrics
Agility Path
What Are Your Measures of Success?
CHAPTER 15: Constructing a Scalable Agile Framework
It Takes a Village
Scaling toward Larger and More Complex Projects
Resources That Can Help You Scale
Scaling Up
CHAPTER 16: Establishing an Agile Education Program
Path to Making Education Matter
Educational Elements
Examples of Common Agile Education
Gamification
Are You Getting Educated?
CHAPTER 17: Creating a Customer Validation Vision
Identifying the Right Customers
Establish Customer Profiles
Customer Demonstrations
Types of Customer Validation
Motivate Customers to Attend
Incorporate Customer Feedback
What Is Your Vision of Customer Validation?
CHAPTER 18: Writing User Stories and Grooming the Backlog
Hierarchy of Requirements within an Agile Context
User Stories
Product Backlog
Grooming
What Is Your Story?
CHAPTER 19: Working with Story Points, Velocity, and Burndowns
Scope versus Schedule Measure
Story Points
Sprint Burndown
Velocity
Are You Getting the Point?
CHAPTER 20: Constructing Done Criteria to Promote Quality
Done Criteria Starter Kit
Definition of Done and Done-Done
Are We Done Yet?
CHAPTER 21: Considering Agile Tools within an ALM Framework
Application Lifecycle Management
ALM Framework for Customer Value
Tools to Support Agile
Do You Have the Right Tools for the Job?
CHAPTER 22: Implementing, Coaching, and Honing Activities
Implementing Agile
Coaching Agile
Honing Agile
Are We Adapting and Improving Yet?
CHAPTER 23: Adapting Governance and Performance Reviews
Adapting IT Governance to Agile
Adapting Performance Reviews
Are You Adapting Organization-Level Processes?
CHAPTER 24: Three Case Studies in Adopting Agile
Smaller Colocated Project
Medium Distributed Project
Large Distributed Team
What Will Your Case Study Look Like?
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BEING AGILE
YOUR ROADMAP TO SUCCESSFUL
ADOPTION OF AGILE
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Mario E. Moreira
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