Agile Software Development with Scrum

Auteur

Ken Schwaber is president of Advanced Development Methods (ADM), a company dedicated to improving the software development practice. He is an experienced software developer, product manager, and industry consultant. Schwaber initiated the process management product revolution of the early 1990's and also worked with Jeff Sutherland to formulate the initial versions of the Scrum development process.

Mike Beedle, an experienced software development practitioner, is the founder and CEO of e-Architects, Inc., a management and technical consulting company that helps its clients develop software in record time. Beedle has contributed to thousands of software projects for the last 20 years, and has used, recommended, and guided others to implement Scrum since 1995.

Texte du rabat

Arguably the most important book about managing technology and systems development efforts, this book describes building systems using the deceptively simple process, Scrum. Readers will come to understand a new approach to systems development projects that cuts through the complexity and ambiguity of complex, emergent requirements and unstable technology to iteratively and quickly produce quality software. BENEFITS

• Learn how to immediately start producing software incrementally regardless of existing engineering practices or methodologies
• Learn how to simplify the implementation of Agile processes
• Learn how to simplify XP implementation through a Scrum wrapper
• Learn why Agile processes work and how to manage them
• Understand the theoretical underpinnings of Agile processes

Résumé
Shows readers how to use Scrum to quickly and seamlessly implement extreme programming while producing software. This Agile software process allows companies to implement programming quickly and immediately and to begin producing software incrementally in as little as 30 days.

Contenu

1. Introduction.

2. Great Ready for Scrum!

3. Scrum Practices.

4. Applying Scrum.

5. Why Scrum?

6. Why Does Scrum Work?

7. Advanced Scrum Applications.

8. Scrum and the Organization.

9. Scrum Values.