Disciplined Agile Delivery

Description

• Part 1: Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
• Chapter 1 Disciplined Agile Delivery in a Nutshell    
• Chapter 2 Introduction to Agile and Lean    
• Chapter 3 Foundations of Disciplined Agile Delivery   
• Part 2: People First
• Chapter 4 Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities    
• Chapter 5 Forming Disciplined Agile Delivery Teams    
• Part 3: Initiating a Disciplined Agile Delivery Project
• Chapter 6 The Inception Phase     
• Chapter 7 Identifying a Project Vision  
• Chapter 8 Identifying the Initial Scope    
• Chapter 9 Identifying an Initial Technical Strategy    
• Chapter 10 Initial Release Planning    
• Chapter 11 Forming the Work Environment    
• Chapter 12 Case Study: Inception Phase   
• Part 4: Building a Consumable Solution Incrementally
• Chapter 13 The Construction Phase    
• Chapter 14 Initiating a Construction Iteration    
• Chapter 15 A Typical Day of Construction    
• Chapter 16 Concluding a Construction Iteration    
• Chapter 17 Case Study: Construction Phase    
• Part 5: Releasing the Solution
• Chapter 18 The Transition Phase    
• Chapter 19 Case Study: Transition Phase    
• Part 6: Disciplined Agile Delivery in the Enterprise
• Chapter 20 Governing Disciplined Agile Teams   
• Chapter 21 Got Discipline?  
• Index

The authoritative guide to DAD, IBM’s disciplined, end-to-end approach to applying agile practices in enterprise scale projects.

• Integrate enterprise discipline with powerful, widely-used agile practices into a proven solution for the entire software lifecycle
• Scale agile strategies for complex development challenges, without compromising agile’s advantages
• Covers tradeoffs and alternatives wherever needed
• By Scott Ambler, creator of Agile Modeling and other innovative methodologies

Scott W. Ambler is Chief Methodologist for IT with IBM Rational, working with IBM customers around the world to help them to improve their software processes. In addition to Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), he is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies and creator of the Agile Scaling Model (ASM). Scott is the (co-)author of 20 books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer, 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal. His personal home page is www.ambysoft.com.

Mark Lines co-founded UPMentors in 2007. He is a disciplined agile coach and mentors organizations on all aspects of software development. He is passionate about reducing the huge waste in most IT organizations and demonstrates hands-on approaches to speeding execution and improving quality with agile and lean techniques. Mark provides IT assessments and executes course corrections to turn around troubled projects. He writes for many publications and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mark is also an instructor of IBM Rational and UPMentors courses on all aspects of software development. His Web site is www.UPMentors.com.

Master IBM’s Breakthrough DAD Process Framework for Succeeding with Agile in Large, Complex, Mission-Critical IT Projects

It is widely recognized that moving from traditional to agile approaches to build software solutions is a critical source of competitive advantage. Mainstream agile approaches that are indeed suitable for small projects require significant tailoring for larger, complex enterprise projects. In Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines introduce IBM’s breakthrough Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework, which describes how to do this tailoring. DAD applies a more disciplined approach to agile development by acknowledging and dealing with the realities and complexities of a portfolio of interdependent program initiatives.

Ambler and Lines show how to extend Scrum with supplementary agile and lean strategies from Agile Modeling (AM), Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Unified Process (UP), and other proven methods to provide a hybrid approach that is adaptable to your organization’s unique needs. They candidly describe what practices work best, why they work, what the trade-offs are, and when to consider alternatives, all within the context of your situation.

Disciplined Agile Delivery addresses agile practices across the entire lifecycle, from requirements, architecture, and development to delivery and governance. The authors show how these best-practice techniques fit together in an end-to-end process for successfully delivering large, complex systems–from project initiation through delivery.

Coverage includes

• Scaling agile for mission-critical enterprise endeavors
• Avoiding mistakes that drive poorly run agile projects to chaos
• Effectively initiating an agile project
• Transitioning as an individual to agile
• Incrementally building consumable solutions
• Deploying agile solutions into complex production environments
• Leveraging DevOps, architecture, and other enterprise disciplines
• Adapting your governance strategy for agile projects

Based on facts, research, and extensive experience, this book will be an indispensable resource for every enterprise software leader and practitioner–whether they’re seeking to optimize their existing agile/Scrum process or improve the agility of an iterative process.

It is widely recognised that moving from traditional to agile approaches to build software solutions is a critical source of competitive advantage. Mainstream agile approaches that are indeed suitable for small projects require significant tailoring for larger, complex enterprise projects. In Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines introduce IBM’s breakthrough Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework, which describes how to do this tailoring. DAD applies a more disciplined approach to agile development by acknowledging and dealing with the realities and complexities of a portfolio of interdependent program initiatives.

Ambler and Lines show how to extend Scrum with supplementary agile and lean strategies from Agile Modeling (AM), Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Unified Process (UP), and other proven methods to provide a hybrid approach that is adaptable to your organisation’s unique needs. They candidly describe what practices work best, why they work, what the trade-offs are, and when to consider alternatives, all within the context of your situation.

Disciplined Agile Delivery addresses agile practices across the entire lifecycle, from requirements, architecture, and development to delivery and governance. The authors show how these best-practice techniques fit together in an end-to-end process for successfully delivering large, complex systems–from project initiation through delivery.

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