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The Agile Developer's Handbook

The Agile Developer's Handbook

By : Paul Flewelling
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The Agile Developer's Handbook

The Agile Developer's Handbook

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By: Paul Flewelling
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Overview of this book

This book will help you overcome the common challenges you’ll face when transforming your working practices from waterfall to Agile. Each chapter builds on the last, starting with easy-to-grasp ways to get going with Agile. Next you’ll see how to choose the right Agile framework for your organization. Moving on, you’ll implement systematic product delivery and measure and report progress with visualization. Then you’ll learn how to create high performing teams, develop people in Agile, manage in Agile, and perform distributed Agile and collaborative governance. At the end of the book, you’ll discover how Agile will help your company progressively deliver software to customers, increase customer satisfaction, and improve the level of efficiency in software development teams.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto
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The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto
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Why the software industry needed to change
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Incremental – adaptive versus waterfall – predictive
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Agile is a mindset
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Summary
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Agile Software Delivery Methods and How They Fit the Manifesto
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Agile Software Delivery Methods and How They Fit the Manifesto
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Understanding Scrum
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XP - Extreme Programming
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Kanban and Lean Software Development
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Choosing the right framework
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Summary
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Introducing Scrum to your Software Team
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Introducing Scrum to your Software Team
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Why Scrum is an excellent place to start
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Starting a new Scrum team
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Summary
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Gathering Agile User Requirements
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Gathering Agile User Requirements
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The pitfalls of traditional big upfront requirements
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Why User Stories produce results
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What a User Story is and how to use it
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Brainstorming a bunch of User Stories
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Estimating Agile user requirements
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References
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Summary
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Bootstrap Teams with Liftoffs
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Bootstrap Teams with Liftoffs
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What's a team liftoff?
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References
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Summary
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Metrics that will Help your Software Team Deliver
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Metrics that will Help your Software Team Deliver
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A brief introduction to measurements for Agile software delivery
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Quantitative metrics
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Qualitative metrics
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Summary
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Software Technical Practices are the Foundation of Incremental Software Delivery
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Software Technical Practices are the Foundation of Incremental Software Delivery
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Building the thing right versus building the right thing
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Refactoring
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Test-Driven Development
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Pair programming
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Emergent design
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The DevOps culture
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Tightening Feedback Loops in the Software Development Life Cycle
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Tightening Feedback Loops in the Software Development Life Cycle
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Implementing incremental delivery in Agile
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Introducing some Lean thinking to improve flow
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Adopting Lean Startup methods to validate ideas
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Seeking Value – How to Deliver Better Software Sooner
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Seeking Value – How to Deliver Better Software Sooner
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Moving from project to product thinking
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Setting objectives to create alignment of purpose
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Seeking value
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Using Product Roadmaps to Guide Software Delivery
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Using Product Roadmaps to Guide Software Delivery
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The importance of Product Roadmaps
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Product Discovery to create roadmaps
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Using Rolling Wave Planning for adaptive delivery
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Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility
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Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility
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How to create high-performing teams
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The stages of team formation
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Stage 1 – forming
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Stage 2 – storming
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Stage 3 – norming
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Stage 4 – performing
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Stage 5 – adjourning/mourning
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Learning by practicing
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Baking Quality into Our Software Delivery
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Baking Quality into Our Software Delivery
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Cross-pollination of skills
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Mob programming
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No more bugs
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No more estimates
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Summary
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The Ultimate Software Team Member
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The Ultimate Software Team Member
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The power of motivation
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The entrepreneurial developer
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The team player
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The growth mindset
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Moving Beyond Isolated Agile Teams
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Moving Beyond Isolated Agile Teams
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How an Agile approach will organically flatten an organizational structure
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Self-selection to create a true-self organization
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Modern leadership
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The art of Agile leadership
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Organizational styles for flatter structures
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Summary
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