Agile Principles Unleashed

Synopsis

Agile Principles Unleashed: Proven approaches for achieving real productivity gains in any organisationAn essential tool for anyone whose job it is to deliver high quality results on time and to budget! Agile approaches are business practices with a proven track record for helping organisations achieve greater efficiency, higher quality outputs and increased customer satisfaction. They enable organisations to avoid the trappings of extensive up-front planning and up-front budget commitments by encouraging staff to regularly produce high quality business outputs; and by basing ongoing financial and resource commitments on the delivered outcomes. This focus on responsive planning based on tangible outputs is why Agile approaches have been successfully used in selected industries for over two decades. Agile Principles Unleashed: Proven approaches for achieving real productivity gains in any organisation introduces every industry sector to the Agile approaches that have dramatically improved the IT, product development and manufacturing sectors over the past two decades. The book clearly explains how the key principles of Agile approaches can be used to significantly increase productivity, quality and customer satisfaction in any organisation. Written in non-technical language specifically for business professionals, this book is an essential tool for anyone whose job it is to deliver high quality results on time and to budget. Benefits of introducing Agile . . . * Minimise waste If a project is heavily planned in advance, but its results are only tested after the work has been completed, then any flaw will be very expensive to put right. Instead, Agile approaches promote stakeholder engagement, and encourage feedback at successive stages of the development process. This means that problems can be detected earlier on, and put right at a much lower cost to the organisation. * Improve communication No matter how precise the blueprint, it is never going to be a substitute for the close co-operation between people of different skills that is required to bring a project to fruition. This book shows you how to achieve results that are aligned with business needs by keeping the technical team in close contact with the business area as the project progresses. * Empower the team Agile approaches allow a delivery team to determine the volume of work that they are capable of delivering within the individual phases of a project. In this way, delivery teams are given a sense of responsibility for completing the assignment within the timeframe they have set themselves, and feel motivated to deliver work of a quality that will continue to satisfy the stakeholders. * Meet deadlines Agile is designed to avoid the business risks involved in 'all-at-once' delivery, where a glitch during one stage of the project throws the entire effort out of kilter, and results in serious delays in completion. This book shows how you can accommodate inevitable internal and external changes through responsive planning. By following Agile principles, staff members no longer have to wait several weeks or months for an updated plan to be agreed, but can quickly adjust their working in line with the new priorities. In this way, Agile will help you to avoid project overrun and to make good your commitments. Over the past two decades, Agile approaches have had a revolutionary impact on software development in many small- and medium-sized IT companies, as well as big corporations like Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google. Thanks to their focus on responsive planning and tangible outputs, Agile approaches have also led to dramatic improvements in the product development and manufacturing sectors. Agile Principles Unleashed presents common-sense methods that will help your organisation to complete projects faster and to a higher standard.

Copyright:

2010

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781849281379

Publisher:

IT Governance Publishing

Date of Addition:

08/05/13

Copyrighted By:

Jamie Lynn Cooke

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.