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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)

Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility

Agile Software teams often work closely together and the communication lines between the team members are open and of high bandwidth. For team members new to Agile, they can often find this daunting because they aren’t used to the level of scrutiny and transparency from their peers. If team members previously worked independently or in different teams, when they come together as a new team, they may find that their individual ways of working may not fit with the team norm.

There will often be a period where the team has to iron out their differences before they can start working harmoniously together. As discussed in Chapter 5, Bootstrap Teams with Liftoffs, liftoffs can help teams get off to a good start, but eventually, teams will begin to go through a “storming” phase with different degrees of conflict...