The Art of Agile Practice : A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations

The Art of Agile Practice: A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations presents a consistent, integrated, and strategic approach to achieving "Agility" in your business. Transcending beyond Agile as a software development method, it covers the gamut of methods in an organization—including business processes, governance standards, project management, quality management, and business analysis—to show you how to use this composite approach to enhance your ability to adapt and respond to evolving business requirements. The book is divided into three parts:

• Introduces Agility and identifies the challenges facing organizations in terms of development and maintenance approaches
• Presents Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS) as a carefully constructed combination of process elements and illustrates its application to development, business management, business analysis, project management, and quality
• Includes two Agile case studies, a comprehensive index, definitions of key acronyms, and appendices with a current list of Agile methods and interview summaries

The book describes relevant metrics for the entire CAMS lifecycle and explains how to embed Agile practices within formal process-maps in projects. Filled with figures, case studies, and tables that illustrate key concepts, the text is ideal for a two- or three-day training course or workshop. It is also suitable for a 13-week education course for higher degree students that includes process discussions and consideration of Agile values at both software and business levels. The chapters are organized to correspond roughly to such lectures with an option to choose from the case study chapters.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introducing Agile in Practice
Chapter 2 : Landscape of Agile and Planned Methods
Chapter 3 : Landscape of Agile and Planned Methods
Chapter 4 : Agile Challenges in Practice

Part I : Composite Agile Method and Strategy and Its Application in Practice
Chapter 5 : Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS)
Chapter 6 : Composite Agile and IT : Enablement, Development, and Maintenance
Chapter 7 : Collaborative-Agile Business Management
Chapter 8 : Business Analysis and Composite Agile
Chapter 9 : CAMS Project Management and ICT Governance
Chapter 10 : Composite Agile : Quality, Testing, and Metrics
Chapter 11 : AGILE Adoption in Organizations

Part II : Case Studies in CAMS
Chapter 12 : Case Study : Outsourced Project
Chapter 13 : Case Study : Organizational CAMS in an Insurance Business

Appendix I : Agile Interview Summaries
Appendix II : Business-Analysis-Related Associations and Standards
Appendix III : Role-Based CAMS Metrics
Appendix IV : Telecom User Stories in Tabular Format

Index