Agile Software Development Evaluating the Methods for Your Organization -- Contents vii -- Foreword by Kent Beck xxi -- Foreword by Mark Paulk xxiii -- Preface xxvii -- Part I Adoption Considerations 1 -- Chapter 1 Introducing the Agile Methods 3 -- Historical and background information 3 -- The Agile methods, generally 4 -- The Agile methods, specifically 7 -- Chapter 2 Considering Your Organizational Culture 9 -- Hierarchical versus cooperative organizations 9 -- Controlling change versus reacting to it 11 -- The role of organizational culture 13 -- Chapter 3 Considering Your Customers 15 -- Contracts and statements of work 15 -- Establishing and changing requirements 16 -- Expectations about collaboration 18 -- Your customers 19 -- Chapter 4 Considering Your Projects 21 -- Size of project teams 21 -- Colocation of team members 22 -- Criticality of projects 23 -- Safety and security requirements 24 -- Multiple teams 25 -- Subcontractors 26 -- Integration with hardware and other software components 26 -- Chapter 5 Considering Your Tools and Processes 29 -- Requirements Management 29 -- Project Management 31 -- Configuration Management 32 -- Your tools and processes 35 -- Chapter 6 Considering Your Staff 37 -- Superstars 37 -- Changing work patterns 38 -- Making changes stick 39 -- Changing the reward system 41 -- Your staff 41 -- Chapter 7 Using This Book to Make Your Adoption Decisions 43 -- Structure of this book 43 -- The "Evaluating Agile Methods" Workbook 45 -- Final steps 49 -- Part II Value: "Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools" 51 -- Chapter 8 About People, Processes, and Tools 53 -- People versus processes versus tools 53 -- The role of people 54 -- The role of processes 55 -- The role of tools 57 -- Balancing people, process, and tools 58 -- Chapter 9 Motivated Individuals and Self-Organizing Teams 61.

Agile Principles 61 -- Agile practices 62 -- Adaptive Software Development (ASD) 63 -- Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) 64 -- Extreme Programming (XP) 64 -- Feature-Driven Development (FDD) 65 -- Lean Software Development (LD) 66 -- Scrum 66 -- Adoption implications 67 -- Motivated individuals and self-organizing teams 71 -- Chapter 10 Face-to-Face Communication 73 -- Agile Principle 73 -- Agile practices 74 -- Extreme Programming 74 -- Scrum 76 -- Adoption implications 77 -- Communication 81 -- Chapter 11 Sustainable Pace 83 -- Agile Principle 83 -- Agile practices 84 -- Extreme Programming (XP) 84 -- Adoption implications 84 -- A sustainable pace 88 -- Chapter 12 The Unstated Principle: Appropriate Processes and Tools 89 -- Agile practices 90 -- Feature-Driven Development (FDD) 90 -- Lean Software Development (LD) 90 -- Adoption implications 93 -- Processes and tools 97 -- Reference 97 -- Part III Value: "Working Software Over Comprehensive Documentation" 99 -- Chapter 13 The Role of Documentation in a Software Project 101 -- Purpose of a document 101 -- Audience for a document 102 -- Value of a document versus its cost 103 -- Avoiding waste in documentation 104 -- Chapter 14 Incremental Delivery of Working Software 105 -- Agile Principles 105 -- Agile practices 107 -- Adaptive Software Development (ASD) 107 -- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) 109 -- Extreme Programming (XP) 110 -- Feature-Driven Development (FDD) 111 -- Lean Software Development (LD) 112 -- Scrum 113 -- Adoption implications 114 -- Incremental development 118 -- Reference 118 -- Part IV Value: "Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation" 119 -- Chapter 15 Defining the Customer Relationship 121 -- Types of customers 121 -- Role of contracts 122 -- Role of ongoing collaboration 123 -- Balancing contracts and collaboration 124.

Chapter 16 Daily Collaboration of All Stakeholders 127 -- Agile Principle 127 -- Agile practices 128 -- Adaptive Software Development (ASD) 128 -- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) 129 -- Extreme Programming (XP) 130 -- Lean Software Development (LD) 131 -- Scrum 131 -- Adoption implications 132 -- Customer collaboration 137 -- Reference 137 -- Part V Value: "Responding to Change over Following a Plan" 139 -- Chapter 17 Understanding Change in Software Projects 141 -- The nature of change 141 -- External changes 142 -- Internal change: customers learn 143 -- Internal change: developers learn 143 -- Capitalizing on what we learn 144 -- Planning for change 144 -- Change happens 145 -- Chapter 18 Welcome Changing Requirements 147 -- Agile Principle 147 -- Agile practices 148 -- Adaptive Software Development (ASD) 148 -- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) 148 -- Extreme Programming (XP) 150 -- Feature-Driven Development (FDD) 151 -- Lean Software Development (LD) 151 -- Scrum 153 -- Adoption implications 153 -- Welcoming change 156 -- Reference 157 -- PART VI The Unstated Value: Keeping the Process Agile 159 -- Chapter 19 Maintaining the Process 161 -- Agile is not antiprocess 161 -- You are using a process 162 -- Process efficiency and effectiveness 162 -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your [process] grow? 163 -- Continuous process improvement 164 -- Chapter 20 Technical Excellence 165 -- Agile Principle 165 -- Agile practices 166 -- Adaptive Software Development (ASD) 166 -- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) 167 -- Extreme Programming (XP) 168 -- Feature-Driven Development (FDD) 170 -- Lean Software Development (LD) 170 -- Scrum 172 -- Adoption implications 172 -- Technical excellence 174 -- Reference 175 -- Chapter 21 Simplicity 177 -- Agile Principle 177 -- Agile practices 177 -- Extreme Programming (XP) 178.

Lean Software Development (LD) 178 -- Adoption implications 180 -- Simplicity 182 -- Reference 182 -- Chapter 22 Retrospectives 183 -- Agile Principle 183 -- Agile practice 184 -- Adaptive Software Development (ASD) 184 -- Adoption implications 185 -- Conclusion 187 -- PART VII The Adoption Decision 189 -- Chapter 23 Making the Adoption Decision 191 -- Compiling your "Evaluating Agile Methods" workbook data 191 -- Conclusions about Agile Values and Principles 192 -- Conclusions about the Agile Methods and Practices 200 -- The Agile Methods in your organization 205 -- Marketing your conclusions in your organization 206 -- Agreeing together on an action plan 207 -- Chapter 24 Adopting New Practices 209 -- Three critical things to do: communicate, communicate, communicate 209 -- Crafting your custom Agile Method 212 -- Training those who will be affected 213 -- Pilot testing the new method 214 -- Rolling it out to the whole organization 215 -- Chapter 25 Evaluating the Effects of Your Agile Method 217 -- Project performance 217 -- Management acceptance 219 -- Customer relationship 220 -- Team satisfaction 221 -- Continuously improving your Agile Method 222 -- Appendix Introduction 223 -- Appendix A The Agile Manifesto 225 -- Reference 226 -- Appendix B The 12 Principles of Agile Methods 227 -- The 12 Principles of Agile Methods 227 -- Agile Principles 231 -- Appendix C Adaptive Software Development 233 -- The Adaptive Life Cycle 223 -- ASD's conceptual framework 236 -- ASD 238 -- References 238 -- Appendix D Dynamic Systems Development Method 239 -- The DSDM process 239 -- Nine principles of DSDM 241 -- Reference 243 -- Appendix E Extreme Programming 245 -- XP's 12 practices 245 -- The XP Facilities Strategy 248 -- References 248 -- Appendix F Feature-Driven Development 249 -- FDD practices 249 -- References 252.

Appendix G Lean Software Development 253 -- Lean Software Development principles and tools 253 -- References 256 -- Appendix H Scrum 257 -- Scrum practices 257 -- References 260 -- Glossary 261 -- About the Author 267 -- Index 269.