An Executive's Guide to Software Quality in an Agile Organization

A Continuous Improvement Journey
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4842-3750-2
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

Utilize a set of practical guidelines to help your Agile organization elevate software design quality as an important business driver to achieve customer satisfaction and, ultimately, higher revenue for your company. This is the first book to focus on a holistic quality view—what it is and how it links to overall business enhancements.

The real-world examples used in this book allow you to learn and apply similar strategies and guidelines to help create a quality blueprint for your organization. Five pillars of quality are defined that can be used for any industry and, once internalized, can serve as a set of tools to continuously improve and measure the key factors impacting quality.

What You’ll Learn

• Be aware of the key elements in any transformation that involves culture
• Link quality and business outcomes
• Understand quality and its holistic definition and why continuous improvement is still a relevant approach in enhancing quality
• Follow guidelines with specific examples that can be applied to any product release in any type of industry to improve quality and enhance Agile processes
• Utilize relevant metrics to measure and continuously improve to make incremental positive changes

Who This Book Is For

Individuals at various levels in organizations—from Agile scrum teams, all the way up to executive leadership

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nader-Rezvani, Navid

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Quality in Agile.- Chapter 2: Worldview and Integral Map.- Chapter 3: Perception of Quality.- Chapter 4: Quality Challenges in an Agile team.- Chapter 5: Quality Framework.- Chapter 6: Assessment Against NQP (Navid's Quality Pillars).- Chapter 7: Agile Quality Test Strategy.- Chapter 8: Quality Excellence Journey.- Chapter 9: Quality at Scale.- Chapter 10: Conclusion and Summary.-

Über Autor(innen)

Navid Nader-Rezvani  is a passionate executive engineering leader with a proven track record as a change agent, results oriented, and a customer advocate. She has successfully led multiple global Development and Agile Quality organizations and has spent her career breaking down silos, reducing redundant effort, and building collaborative teams. She has a rare set of leadership skills and a unique way of working across organizations and time zones to achieve productivity. Navid has been instrumental in delivering releases on time, on budget, with high-quality outcomes. She has a strong passion for diversity, mentoring, and volunteering activities and has presented at various conferences. She holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from VA Tech, is a certified Scrum Master, a SAFe Program Consultant, and is PMP certified.