Agile Software Development: Best Practices for Large Software Development Projects

✍ Scribed by Thomas Stober, Uwe Hansmann (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Software Development is moving towards a more agile and more flexible approach. It turns out that the traditional "waterfall" model is not supportive in an environment where technical, financial and strategic constraints are changing almost every day. But what is agility? What are today’s major approaches? And especially: What is the impact of agile development principles on the development teams, on project management and on software architects? How can large enterprises become more agile and improve their business processes, which have been existing since many, many years? What are the limitations of Agility? And what is the right balance between reliable structures and flexibility? This book will give answers to these questions. A strong emphasis will be on real life project examples, which describe how development teams have moved from a waterfall model towards an Agile Software Development approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
The Flaw in the Plan....Pages 1-14
Traditional Software Development....Pages 15-33
Overview of Agile Software Development....Pages 35-59
Tooling....Pages 61-73
Considerations on Teaming and Leadership....Pages 75-92
Considerations on Planning and Architecture....Pages 93-114
Considerations on Project Execution....Pages 115-144
Mix and Match....Pages 145-170
Summary and Wrap-Up....Pages 171-175
Back Matter....Pages 177-179

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering;Computer Communication Networks;Input/Output and Data Communications;Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet);Complexity