| Elssamadisy walks you through the process of defining your optimal agile adoption strategy with case studies and hands-on exercises that illuminate the key points. He systematically examines the most common obstacles to agile implementation, identifying proven solutions. You'll learn where to start, how to choose the best agile practices for your business and technical environment, and how to adopt agility incrementally, building on steadily growing success.
Next, he presents the definitive agile adoption pattern reference: all the information you need to implement the strategy that you've already defined. Utilizing the classic pattern format, he explains each agile solution in its proper context, revealing why it works - and how to make the most of it.
The pattern reference prepares you to:
- Understand the core drivers, principles, and values associated with agile success;
- Tightly focus development on delivering business value - and recognize the "smells" of a project headed off track;
- Gain rapid, effective feedback practices: iteration, kickoff & stand-up meetings, demos, retrospectives, & more;
- Foster team development: co-location, self-organization, cross-functional roles, and how to bring the customer aboard;
- Facilitate technical tasks and processes: testing, refactoring, continuous integration, simple design, collective code ownership, and pair programming;
- Act as an effective coach, learning to engage the community & promote learning;
- Integrate "clusters" of agile practices that work exceptionally well together. | |
