Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum

✍ Scribed by Craig Larman, Bas Vodde

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 608
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lean and Agile Development for Large-Scale Products: Key Practices for Sustainable Competitive Success

 

Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. Drawing on their long experience leading and guiding lean and agile adoptions for large, multisite, and offshore product development, internationally recognized consultant and best-selling author Craig Larman and former leader of the agile transformation at Nokia Networks Bas Vodde share the key action tools needed for success.

 

Coverage includes

• Frameworks for large-scale Scrum for multihundred-person product groups
• Testing and building quality in
• Product management and the end of the “contract game” between business and R&D
• Envisioning a large release, and planning for multiteam development
• Low-quality legacy code: why it’s created, and how to stop it
• Continuous integration in a large multisite context
• Agile architecting
• Multisite or offshore development
• Contracts and outsourced development

 In a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, the practices inspired by lean thinking and agile principles are ever-more relevant. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development will help people realize a lean enterprise—and deliver on the significant benefits of agility.

 

In addition to the action tools in this text, see the companion book Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum for complementary foundation tools.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
1 Introduction......Page 11
2 Large-Scale Scrum......Page 19
Action Tools......Page 30
3 Test......Page 33
4 Product Management......Page 109
5 Planning......Page 165
6 Coordination......Page 199
7 Requirements & PBIs......Page 225
8 Design & Architecture......Page 291
9 Legacy Code......Page 343
10 Continuous Integration......Page 361
11 Inspect & Adapt......Page 383
12 Multisite......Page 423
13 Offshore......Page 455
14 Contracts......Page 509
Miscellany......Page 557
15 Feature Team Primer......Page 559
Recommended Readings......Page 569
Bibliography......Page 575
List of Experiments......Page 590
B......Page 599
C......Page 600
E......Page 601
J......Page 602
N......Page 603
P......Page 604
R......Page 605
S......Page 606
T......Page 607
X......Page 608