The Agile Developer's Handbook

Paul Flewelling

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781787280731
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming
• Index: Computer Science

A pragmatic companion guide to your Agile journeyAbout This Book• Make your team Agile by implementing industry-standard Agile techniques• Assess scope, scale up efficiently• Create the correct roles and identify the right candidates for your team• Finish your projects faster and stay ahead of the curveWho This Book Is ForIf you're a software developer or a project manager with little to no experience of Agile, but you want to efficiently implement it, this is the book for you.What You Will Learn• Create a solid foundation that gives your team an Agile jumpstart• Understand how to select and evolve practices to increase your team's agility• Use experiments to accelerate your team's understanding• Fine-tune your approach by incorporating aspects of Lean and Lean Startup• Know how to foster an environment of continuous improvement and learning that will become self-sustainingIn DetailThis 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.Style and approachThink of this book like a manual, rather than a theoretical textbook. It's packed full of visual ways to understand Agile, helpful tips to get you set up quickly, tried and tested solutions when challenges arise, and heaps of support to get the day-to-day tasks in Agile done. You'll want to keep a copy on your desk, right next to your coffee cup.

Contributors

About the author

Paul Flewelling began looking for a better way to build software after one fateful project that ticked all the boxes, yet failed to deliver what the customer needed. That search led him to help grow one of NZ's first Agile software teams. As word of the team's success spread, he also began training others. He currently coaches the product teams who are transforming NZ's largest newspaper company for the digital economy. He speaks nationally and internationally on all things Agile, shares coaching insights on his blog, co-hosts monthly meet-ups, and is often seen wisely stroking his beard.

I want to thank all the teams I've coached for coming on the journey with me. Your willingness to try out many of our crazy ideas and make them work inspires me to be a better coach.

Thank you to the many coaches I've worked and shared ideas with. You've always stretched me to think beyond my horizons; I'm humbled to work with such great humans.

Finally, I want to express my gratitude to my wife; I wouldn't be on this journey if it weren't for her.

About the reviewer

Kamal Prasad Bansod has around 15 yrs of experience in IT. He has spent around 8 years exploring and experimenting with Agile/Scrum. He has worked with different team dynamics and transformation of Agile teams. He strongly believes in the Agile principles and engineering practices. If they are followed properly then value-based delivery can be done to the market with expected quality. He loves to share his knowledge and ideas with companies that adopt and improve their use of Agile processes and techniques to build high-performing teams.

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Packt Upsell
• Contributors
• Preface
• The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto
• Agile Software Delivery Methods and How They Fit the Manifesto
• Introducing Scrum to your Software Team
• Gathering Agile User Requirements
• Bootstrap Teams with Liftoffs
• Metrics that will Help your Software Team Deliver
• Software Technical Practices are the Foundation of Incremental Software Delivery
• Tightening Feedback Loops in the Software Development Life Cycle
• Seeking Value – How to Deliver Better Software Sooner
• Using Product Roadmaps to Guide Software Delivery
• Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility
• Baking Quality into Our Software Delivery
• The Ultimate Software Team Member
• Moving Beyond Isolated Agile Teams
• Other Books You May Enjoy