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Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise
Publisher: IBM Press
Pub. Date: May 23, 2012
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-281013-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-281013-5
Web ISBN-10: 0-13-281009-3
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-13-281009-8
Pages in Print Edition: 544
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Overview
Master IBM’s Breakthrough DAD Process Framework for Succeeding with Agile in Large, Complex, Mission-Critical IT Projects
It is widely recognized that moving from traditional to agile approaches to build software solutions is a critical source of competitive advantage. Mainstream agile approaches that are indeed suitable for small projects require significant tailoring for larger, complex enterprise projects. In Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines introduce IBM’s breakthrough Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework, which describes how to do this tailoring. DAD applies a more disciplined approach to agile development by acknowledging and dealing with the realities and complexities of a portfolio of interdependent program initiatives.
Ambler and Lines show how to extend Scrum with supplementary agile and lean strategies from Agile Modeling (AM), Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Unified Process (UP), and other proven methods to provide a hybrid approach that is adaptable to your organization’s unique needs. They candidly describe what practices work best, why they work, what the trade-offs are, and when to consider alternatives, all within the context of your situation.
Disciplined Agile Delivery addresses agile practices across the entire lifecycle, from requirements, architecture, and development to delivery and governance. The authors show how these best-practice techniques fit together in an end-to-end process for successfully delivering large, complex systems--from project initiation through delivery.
Coverage includes
Scaling agile for mission-critical enterprise endeavors
Avoiding mistakes that drive poorly run agile projects to chaos
Effectively initiating an agile project
Transitioning as an individual to agile
Incrementally building consumable solutions
Deploying agile solutions into complex production environments
Leveraging DevOps, architecture, and other enterprise disciplines
Adapting your governance strategy for agile projects
Based on facts, research, and extensive experience, this book will be an indispensable resource for every enterprise software leader and practitioner--whether they’re seeking to optimize their existing agile/Scrum process or improve the agility of an iterative process.
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"Agile for teams up to 25,000-the definitive guide" - by ChrisFCarroll on 15-APR-2013
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Scott Ambler has been working on Agile methodologies since about the time the agile manifesto was published. He was chief methodologist at IBM/Rational during the period that IBM/Rational defined their "agile@scale" approach.
Many organisations struggle to evolve their own way of scaling agile, often by modifying xp or scrum. But other agile methodologies already address issues of larger scale agile, notably the Unified Process derived approaches openUP and agileUP. Beyond that, Ambler & Lines identify the scaling factors you need to consider; not only team size but also geographic distribution and factors relating to risk, governance and complexity.
The book is straightforward and logical. If you must co-ordinate more than one agile team, it represents the authoritative guide on the issues you face and how to address them.
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"Nothing new here" - by ER on 05-APR-2013
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Essentially it's agile, explained in bits of XP, SCRUM, Lean, Unified Process, and SDLC. It's another attempt to fit agile into enterprise.
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