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The Agile Developer's Handbook

By : Paul Flewelling
Book Image

The Agile Developer's Handbook

By: Paul Flewelling

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)

Self-selection to create a true-self organization

There will undoubtedly be some challenges in an Agile transformation, regardless of size. One of those is how to reorganize the teams around the work that we have to do while fitting into the template of small, cross-functional units that can operate both independently and interdependently.

As teams grow in size, and we have multiple teams working on various inter-related products or parts of a product, it gets harder for leadership to work out who goes where and be best placed to solve the challenges we have.

Many people will be affected by the decisions that leaders make as to how the company is going be organized from here on out. There is a degree of powerlessness that everyone at the team level will feel as they try to come to terms with their new roles and team reorganization. If we make them an active part of the process...