Agile Software Development Ecosystems

Problems, Practices, and Principles

Jim Highsmith

404 pages, parution le 12/04/2002

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Résumé

In a highly volatile software development environment, developers must be nimble, responsive, and able to hit a moving target—in short, they must be agile. Agile software development is designed to address this need for speed and flexibility. Agility describes a holistic, collaborative environment in which you can both create and respond to change by focusing on adaptability over predictability, people over process. Agile software development incorporates proven software engineering techniques, but without the overhead and restrictions of traditional development methodologies. Above all, it fulfills its promise of delivering software that serves the client's business needs.

Written by one of the leaders of the Agile movement, and including interviews with Agile gurus Kent Beck, Robert Charette, Alistair Cockburn, Martin Fowler, Ken Schwaber, and Ward Cunningham, Agile Software Development Ecosystems crystallizes the current understanding of this flexible and highly successful approach to software development. It presents the key practices of all Agile development approaches, offers overviews of specific techniques, and shows how you can choose the approach that best suits your organization.

This book describes—in depth—the most important principles of Agile development: delivering value to the customer, focusing on individual developers and their skills, collaboration, an emphasis on producing working software, the critical contribution of technical excellence, and a willingness to change course when demands shift. All major Agile methods are presented:

Scrum
Dynamic Systems Development Method
CrystalMethods
Feature-Driven Development
Lean Development
Extreme Programming
Adaptive Software Development

Throughout the book, case stories are used to illustrate how Agile practices empower success around the world in today's chaotic software development industry. Agile Software Development Ecosystems also examines how to determine your organization's Agile readiness, how to design a custom Agile methodology, and how to transform your company into a truly Agile organization.

Contents

Preface.
Introduction.

Part I : Problems and Solutions

1. The Change-Driven Economy.
2. IDX Systems Corporation.
3. Agility.

Part II : Principles and People

4. Kent Beck.
5. Deliver Something Useful.
6. Alistair Cockburn.
7. Rely on People.
8. Ken Schwaber.
9. Encourage Collaboration.
10. Martin Fowler.
11. Technical Excellence.
12. Ward Cunningham.
13. Do the Simplest Thing Possible.
14. Jim Highsmith.
15. Be Adaptable.
16. Bob Charette.

Part III : Agile Software Development Ecosystems

17. Scrum.
18. Dynamic Systems Development Method.
19. Crystal Methods.
20. Feature-Driven Development.
21. Lean Development.
22. Extreme Programming.
23. Adaptive Software Development.

Part IV : Developing an ASDE

24. Agile Readiness.
25. Design Your Agile Methodology.
26. The AGILE Metamorphosis.

Final Thoughts.
Bibliography.
Index.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Jim Highsmith
Parution	12/04/2002
Nb. de pages	404
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	874g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201760439
ISBN13	978-0-201-76043-9