Schwaber / Sutherland Software in 30 Days

How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-24090-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, E-Book

A radical approach to getting IT projects done faster andcheaper than anyone thinks possible
Software in 30 Days summarizes the Agile and Scrumsoftware development method, which allows creation of game-changingsoftware, in just 30 days. Projects that use it are three timesmore successful than those that don't. Software in 30 Daysis for the business manager, the entrepreneur, the productdevelopment manager, or IT manager who wants to develop softwarebetter and faster than they now believe possible. Learn how thisunorthodox process works, how to get started, and how to succeed.Control risk, manage projects, and have your people succeed withsimple but profound shifts in the thinking.
The authors explain powerful concepts such as the art of thepossible, bottom-up intelligence, and why it's good to failearly--all with no risk greater than thirty days.
* The productivity gain vs traditional "waterfall" methods hasbeen over 100% on many projects
* Author Ken Schwaber is a co-founder of the Agile softwaremovement, and co-creator, with Jeff Sutherland, of the "Scrum"technique for building software in 30 days
* Coauthor Jeff Sutherland was cosigner of the Agile Manifesto,which marked the start of the Agile movement
Software in 30 Days is a must-read for all managers andbusiness owners who use software in their organizations or in theirproducts and want to stop the cycle of slow, expensive softwaredevelopment. Programmers will want to buy copies for their managersand their customers so they will know how to collaborate to get thebest work possible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwaber, Ken

Sutherland, Jeff

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I: Why Every Business In The World Can Produce Software In Thirty Days
This sections reviews how many organization struggle to develop software and how Software in Thirty Day's approach can eliminate the underlying problem.
Chapter 1: The Crisis in Software: The Wrong Process Produces The Wrong Results
Find out why so many software projects fail and why traditional methods are ill-suited to software development.
Chapter 2: Scrum: The Right Process Produces the Right Results
Understand the shift in thinking necessary to eliminate software project failure and deliver software in 30 days.
Chapter 3: Try It Yourself: The Pilot
You are interested. Learn how to run a pilot project that will successfully help you determine what to do next.
Chapter 4: What Can I Do?
Learn what you, as a manager, can do to make Software in 30 Days successful.
Section II: Why Every Business In The World Can Produce Software In Thirty Days
This section address how you can implement and embed Software in Thirty Days in your organization.
Chapter 5: Getting Started with Scrum
Understand how Scrum works.
Chapter 6: Scrum at the Project Level
Learn how to launch Scrum on a single project.
Chapter 7: Develop a Scrum Capability
Learn how to develop a Scrum capability in your organization.
Chapter 8: Scrum at the Enterprise Level
Consider spreading Scrum throughout the enterprise.
Appendices
1: Terminology
Look up terminology used in this book
2: Scrum Guide
Read the canonical guide to Scrum
3: A Playbook for Achieving Enterprise Agility
A Scrum enterprise adoption playbook in use since 1995.

Über Autor(innen)

KEN SCHWABER is a cofounder of the worldwide Agile software movement and cocreator, with Jeff Sutherland, of the "Scrum" technique for building software in 30 days. He is president of Scrum.org, a software consulting firm, and led the process management product revolution of the early 1990s.
JEFF SUTHERLAND is the cocreator of Scrum, and was cosigner of the Agile Manifesto, which marked the start of the Agile movement. He has served as vice president of engineering or CTO at eleven software companies, managing the last seven entirely using Scrum, and achieved industry-leading, hyper-productive results. Jeff is the CEO of Scrum Inc., a consulting and training company.