Description
Break the
Old, Waterfall Habits that Hinder Agile Success: Drive
Rapid Value and Continuous Improvement When agile
teams don’t get immediate results, it’s tempting for
them to fall back into old habits that make success even less
likely. In Being Agile, Leslie Ekas and Scott Will present
eleven powerful techniques for rapidly gaining substantial value
from agile, making agile methods stick, and launching a
“virtuous circle” of continuous improvement. Drawing on
their experience helping more than 100 teams transition to agile,
the authors review its key principles, identify corresponding
practices, and offer breakthrough approaches for implementing them.
Using their techniques, you can break typical waterfall patterns
and go beyond merely “doing agile” to actually thinking
and being agile. Ekas and Will
help you clear away silos, improve stakeholder interaction,
eliminate waste and waterfall-style inefficiencies, and lead the
agile transition far more successfully. Each of their eleven
principles can stand on its own: when you combine them, they become
even more valuable. Coverage
includes Building “whole teams” that cut across silos and
work together throughout a product’s lifecycle Engaging product stakeholders earlier and far more
effectively Overcoming inefficient “waterations” and “big
batch” waterfall thinking Getting past the curse of multi-tasking Eliminating dangerous technical and project debt Repeatedly deploying “release-ready” software in
real user environments Delivering what customers really need, not what you think they
needn Fixing the root causes of problems so they don’t
recur Learning from experience: mastering continuous improvement Assessing whether you’re just “doing agile”
or actually “being agile” Being
Agile will be indispensable for all software professionals now
adopting agile; for coaches, managers, engineers, and team members
who want to get more value from it and for students discovering it
for the first time.
Books 
IBM Press
Exclusively Paid 
7h 58m 
No Certificate 
224 pages Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”
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TypeBooks
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ProviderIBM Press
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PricingExclusively Paid
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Duration7h 58m
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CertificateNo Certificate
Break the Old, Waterfall Habits that Hinder Agile Success:
Drive Rapid Value and Continuous Improvement
When agile teams don’t get immediate results, it’s tempting for them to fall back into old habits that make success even less likely. In Being Agile, Leslie Ekas and Scott Will present eleven powerful techniques for rapidly gaining substantial value from agile, making agile methods stick, and launching a “virtuous circle” of continuous improvement.
Drawing on their experience helping more than 100 teams transition to agile, the authors review its key principles, identify corresponding practices, and offer breakthrough approaches for implementing them. Using their techniques, you can break typical waterfall patterns and go beyond merely “doing agile” to actually thinking and being agile.
Ekas and Will help you clear away silos, improve stakeholder interaction, eliminate waste and waterfall-style inefficiencies, and lead the agile transition far more successfully. Each of their eleven principles can stand on its own: when you combine them, they become even more valuable.
Coverage includes
Building “whole teams” that cut across silos and work together throughout a product’s lifecycle
Engaging product stakeholders earlier and far more effectively
Overcoming inefficient “waterations” and “big batch” waterfall thinking
Getting past the curse of multi-tasking
Eliminating dangerous technical and project debt
Repeatedly deploying “release-ready” software in real user environments
Delivering what customers really need, not what you think they needn Fixing the root causes of problems so they don’t recur
Learning from experience: mastering continuous improvement
Assessing whether you’re just “doing agile” or actually “being agile”
Being Agile will be indispensable for all software professionals now adopting agile; for coaches, managers, engineers, and team members who want to get more value from it and for students discovering it for the first time.
