Agile For Dummies®, CA Technologies Edition
Mario E. Moreira & Michael Lester & Steve Holzner
Book 2.0 of For Dummies
Language: English
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
Published: Jul 9, 2010
BibTeX:
book
Worte:
22374
Seiten:
75
FRE:
94
GFI:
6
FKGL:
2
Description:
Introduction
Agile is a relatively new strategy that’s proving to be very effective in project development of all kinds. Agile development involves an incremental, iterative approach to projects. It stands in distinction to methods that plan extensively from the start, instead letting the project dictate its own parameters as much as possible.
Although Agile emphasizes leaner governance of development teams than organizations may be used to, that hardly means Agile is less disciplined than other development approaches. Instead of relying on discipline coming from above, in Agile, the team self organizes and internalizes its own discipline and commits to the project.
This eliminates the two-step aspect of many project development models, where management directs the team in a horse-and-cart fashion. In Agile development, governance and development aspects become a seamless whole, eliminating the two-step nature of other development strategies. And when a development team becomes a single highly-motivated self-governing unit, development can become much more streamlined and effective.
About This Book
In this book, you’re going to get a guided tour of Agile development with particular emphasis on the most popular of Agile methodologies — Scrum development.
While Agile is a development philosophy, Scrum offers concrete plans for your project. It contains many well-tested components that have been tuned over the years, and we bring Agile to life using Scrum practices.
Scrum development involves many roles, such as the ScrumMaster, the Scrum Team, the Product Owner; new concrete concepts, such as sprint (product development iterations) product and sprint backlogs; and much more. You see all those terms in this book.
In addition, you get an inside look at a powerful Agile product, CA Agile Vision. It implements the Scrum methodology and lets teams communicate and plan online. CA Agile Vision provides you with the tools you need to implement Scrum quickly and effectively. Throughout this book, you get information on Agile in general, but then we include the CA Agile Vision methods of making your life easier with this software.