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Directing the Agile organisation : a lean approach to business management /

Directing the Agile Organisation will be of interest to managers and senior executives who want to improve business processes in order to remain competitive in today's market.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leybourn, Evan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ely, U.K. : IT Governance Pub., 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; What is Agile?; Scrum; Kanban; Lean Manufacturing; Feature Driven Development; Test-Driven Development; Extreme Programming; Common misconceptions; Governance and Agile Business Management; Successful Agile Business Management; Relationship to other management styles; OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; Process control loops; Deming's 14 points; Theory of Profound Knowledge; CMMI; Chapter 1: You, the Agile Manager; Management responsibilities; The Agile mindset; Embraces change; Accepts failure; Staff and Customer focused; Changing your mind.
  • Chapter 2: Integrated Customer EngagementWhat is a Customer?; The Customer Representative; Requirements and the Requirements Backlog; Chapter 3: The Structure of an Agile Organisation; Internal departments; Human Resources; ICT Support and administration; Sales and Marketing; Finance and Accounting; Media and Communications; Legal; Research and Development; Production and Operations
  • Delivery Teams; Other departments; The Board and executive governance bodies; Pair Work; Team Facilitator; Managing Teams; Managing Distributed Teams; Risk management; Chapter 4: Work, the Agile Way.
  • Phases of deliveryPlanning phase; Do phase; Review phase; Release phase; Kanbans; Quality control; The Daily Stand-up and Agile meetings; Effort estimation; Estimating Requirements; Estimating tasks; Estimation process; Measuring progress; Visualising progress; Burndown Charts; Cumulative Flow Diagrams; Cycle Time Run Charts; Chapter 5: The Agile Budget; Funding models; Quoting for Customers; Fixed cost; Fixed time; Fixed scope; Fixed cost and time; Fixed cost and scope; Fixed time and scope; Fixed cost, time and scope; Chapter 6: Reflection, Retrospectives and Kaizen.
  • Chapter 7: The Shape of Things to ComePre-Agile › Learning Agile; Early Agile › Agile management; Agile practitioners › Continuous improvement; Glossary; Bibliography.