Collaboration Explained

Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders

Jean Tabaka - Collection Agile Software Development Series

410 pages, parution le 09/02/2006

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Résumé

The Hands-On Guide to Effective Collaboration in Agile Projects

To succeed, an agile project demands outstanding collaboration among all its stakeholders. But great collaboration doesn't happen by itself; it must be carefully planned and facilitated throughout the entire project lifecycle. Collaboration Explained is the first book to bring together proven, start-to-finish techniques for ensuring effective collaboration in any agile software project.

Since the early days of the agile movement, Jean Tabaka has been studying and promoting collaboration in agile environments. Drawing on her unsurpassed experience, she offers clear guidelines and easy-to-use collaboration templates for every significant project event: from iteration and release planning, through project chartering, all the way through post-project retrospectives.

Tabaka's hands-on techniques are applicable to every leading agile methodology, from Extreme Programming and Scrum to Crystal Clear. Above all, they are practical: grounded in a powerful understanding of the technical, business, and human challenges you face as a project manager or development team member.

Build collaborative software development cultures, leaders, and teams
Prepare yourself to collaborate-and prepare your team
Define clear roles for each participant in promoting collaboration
Set your collaborative agenda
Master tools for organizing collaboration more efficiently
Run effective collaborative meetings-including brainstorming sessions
Promote better small-group and pair-programming collaboration
Get better information, and use it to make better decisions
Use non-abusive conflict to drive positive outcomes
Collaborate to estimate projects and schedules more accurately
Strengthen collaboration across distributed, virtual teams
Extend collaboration from individual projects to the entire development organization

L'auteur - Jean Tabaka

Jean Tabaka is an Agile Coach with Rally Software Development, specializing in creating, coaching and mentoring collaborative, agile software teams. Jean brings over 25 years of experience in software development to the agile plate in a variety of organizational contexts including internal IT departments, ISVs, government agencies, and consulting organizations. Having implemented both plan-driven and agile development approaches for Sybase, Siebel Systems, and Qwest, as well as a variety of smaller ventures, her work has spanned industries and continents. As an agile mentor, Jean coaches software teams through training and facilitation to adopt agile principles and practices using a hybrid of the leading agile methods. With a passion around collaboration practices through facilitation techniques, she guides organizations in creating high-performance teams. She is the co-author of Physical Database Design for Sybase SQL Server and is a frequent lecturer and contributor on the topic of collaboration practices in agile teams. A Certified Scrum Master as well as Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Professional Facilitator, she holds a Master of Arts from Michigan State University and a Master of Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Sommaire

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword
Preface
Overview
Setting the Collaborative Context
Applying Collaboration
Extending Collaboration
Collaborative Facilitation Guides
Bibliography
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Jean Tabaka
Collection	Agile Software Development Series
Parution	09/02/2006
Nb. de pages	410
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	638g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780321268778
ISBN13	978-0-321-26877-8