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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)

Using Product Roadmaps to Guide Software Delivery

One of the roles of the Product Owner in Scrum is to hold the vision for the team about what needs to be built. This high-level vision statement allows the Product Owner to make decisions about where the product should be heading and what the priorities should be. They will often translate the vision for the product into a Product Roadmap, which can then be used to communicate to the team, including the broader group, where the product is headed and what level of investment is needed to deliver the features specified in the roadmap.

In this chapter, we look at several techniques for Product Discovery—User Story Mapping and Impact Mapping. Both of these methods are used to create an initial feature set which we can then break down into User Stories. We'll then look at several techniques for prioritizing features/User...