Dimensions
181 x 234 x 12mm
Proven, actionable frameworks and processes for leaders who want to introduce Agile and/or maximize its business value.
* A coherent roadmap for Agile success, designed specifically for software and business leadership.
* Shows how to create a development culture where Agile methods can emerge and flourish.
* Helps developers build the right products and services, and stop wasting money on the wrong ones.
* Includes case studies from Yahoo!, Salesforce.com, CapitalOne, and BMC Software.
Many books focus on the low-level usage of Agile methods. Stand Back and Deliver is unique: it is written from the point of view of the leader who is interested in Agile as a means to the most important ends: reducing costs, leading change, and maximizing business value. This book provides leaders with proven, immediately usable frameworks and processes for successfully implementing Agile development methods -- and making sure they deliver real competitive advantage. Relentlessly practical, it draws on the authors' extensive hands-on experience, as well as detailed case studies from four of the world's leading software development organizations: Yahoo!, Salesforce.com, CapitalOne, and BMC Software. Readers will learn how to align Agile with business strategy, and filter implementation decisions and activities based on their specific goals and priorities. They will learn how to manage product, portfolio, and projects in the Agile context, and master the critical collaborative leadership skills required to make Agile flourish. Along the way, the authors show how to avoid common pitfalls associated with scalability, complexity, and disorder - and use Agile to build the right products and services, while avoiding unnecessary features and wasteful projects.
