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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)

Agile Software Delivery Methods and How They Fit the Manifesto

Some people like a bit of background before they get started, if that's you then you're in the right place. In this chapter, we're going to take a look at the various strands of the modern Agile movement and see how they've come together.

Alternatively, if you're the kind of person who likes to get stuck in first and then get some context later, once you've tried a few things out, skip this chapter and go directly to the next one. In it, we'll discover how to get your team up-and-running using the most popular Agile framework, Scrum. If that's you, see you there.

Here we're going to take a look at several Agile methods, including their backgrounds and how they fit the Agile Manifesto. Or perhaps, more importantly, how the Manifesto fits them because many Agile methods were...