Download or read book An Executive s Guide to Software Quality in an Agile Organization written by Navid Nader-Rezvani and published by Apress. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book An Executive s Guide to Software Quality in an Agile Organization written by Navid Nader-Rezvani and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Download or read book Agile An Executive Guide written by Jamie Lynn Cooke and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile: An Executive Guide describes Agile methods in clear business language specifically written for professionals. It will help you make realistic business-driven decisions on whether Agile methods are appropriate for your organisation; whether you are looking to reduce your IT overheads, provide better software solutions to your clients, or have more control over your IT expenditures. This guide provides practical, proven ways to introduce, incorporate and leverage Agile methods to maximise your business returns.

Download or read book Agile Leadership written by Tony Adams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecting and Orchestrating Agile focuses not only on the day to day agile activities and people interaction, but also focuses on the designing aspects of Agile. And it starts with Program and Portfolio stakeholders alignment of strategic themes, driving clarity with business and architectural Epics and how that fits down to program and team level tactical planning. The leadership must make sure that the technology team understands the business value of a product feature and do anything possible to keep the development cost down. And at the same time, the business and product owners should understand the technology that help them to function better and solve business problems effectively. This emergence is a true gain for an agile organization. So the big question is whether the IT governance in your agile organization is creating desirable IT behavior and helping address your opportunities. In order to make governance effective, it needs to be designed correctly. Transparency, information sharing, communications and performance measurements are some of the key components to establishing governance that ensures business and IT have synergies.

Download or read book An Executive s Guide to Disciplined Agile written by Scott Ambler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agile community has figured out how to build and then continually improve very high-performance software development teams. This is akin to creating a race car engine and then evolving it to get more power, better fuel efficiency, and greater speed. Sadly in many cases we take these great engines, put them into an organizational tractor, and then complain that we're not winning the race. What we need to do is take our great race car engines (our development teams), put them into a race car (a DevOps ecosystem), have a great pit crew and driver (an effective IT organization), and then provide somewhere to race (an organization that can leverage IT to make money). That's what this book is all about - Moving from optimizing team performance to optimizing the entire enterprise. Business agility - being an adaptive, lean, responsive, and learning organization - is the race that enterprises need to win today. Yet there is no quick fix, no silver bullet, to attain business agility. This is a multi-year journey requiring hard work, experimentation, and most importantly a willingness to improve. The Disciplined Agile framework lowers risks and provides a path to accelerate your journey to business agility. The framework is unique in that it is the only one that puts all the pieces together into a cohesive enterprise roadmap for business agility transformation. This book begins with an overview of the challenges and opportunities that organizations face. We then describe seven principles that provide the underpinnings of the Disciplined Agile framework. Then the book works through Disciplined Agile Delivery (how to build a world-class engine), Disciplined DevOps (the race car), Disciplined Agile IT (the race car and its team), and what it means to be a Disciplined Agile Enterprise (the racing business). The book ends with a plan for starting with an Agile transformation and then evolving into a long-term continuous improvement strategy. Do you have the discipline it takes to win the race to business agility?

Download or read book Agile Management for Software Engineering written by David J. Anderson and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2003-09-17 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakthrough approach to managing agile software development, Agile methods might just be the alternative to outsourcing. However, agile development must scale in scope and discipline to be acceptable in the boardrooms of the Fortune 1000. In Agile Management for Software Engineering, David J. Anderson shows managers how to apply management science to gain the full business benefits of agility through application of the focused approach taught by Eli Goldratt in his Theory of Constraints. Whether you're using XP, Scrum, FDD, or another agile approach, you'll learn how to develop management discipline for all phases of the engineering process, implement realistic financial and production metrics, and focus on building software that delivers maximum customer value and outstanding business results.Coverage includes: Making the business case for agile methods: practical tools and disciplines How to choose an agile method for your next project Breakthrough application of Critical Chain Project Management and constraint-driven control of the flow of value Defines the four new roles for the agile manager in software projects—and competitive IT organizations Whether you're a development manager, project manager, team leader, or senior IT executive, this book will help you achieve all four of your most urgent challenges: lower cost, faster delivery, improved quality, and focused alignment with the business.

Download or read book Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Complete Self Assessment Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you determine the key elements that affect Agile Software Development Quality Assurance workforce satisfaction? how are these elements determined for different workforce groups and segments? How will the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance team and the organization measure complete success of Agile Software Development Quality Assurance? Is a fully trained team formed, supported, and committed to work on the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance improvements? Will team members perform Agile Software Development Quality Assurance work when assigned and in a timely fashion? How do we maintain Agile Software Development Quality Assurance's Integrity? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Agile Software Development Quality Assurance assessment. All the tools you need to an in-depth Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Self-Assessment. Featuring 618 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Agile Software Development Quality Assurance improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Agile Software Development Quality Assurance projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Agile Software Development Quality Assurance and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Agile Software Development Quality Assurance areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Self-Assessment downloadable resource, which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book in a ready to use Excel dashboard, including the self-assessment, graphic insights, and project planning automation - all with examples to get you started with the assessment right away. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help.

Download or read book Scaling Software Agility written by Dean Leffingwell and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Companies have been implementing large agile projects for a number of years, but the ‘stigma’ of ‘agile only works for small projects’ continues to be a frequent barrier for newcomers and a rallying cry for agile critics. What has been missing from the agile literature is a solid, practical book on the specifics of developing large projects in an agile way. Dean Leffingwell’s book Scaling Software Agility fills this gap admirably. It offers a practical guide to large project issues such as architecture, requirements development, multi-level release planning, and team organization. Leffingwell’s book is a necessary guide for large projects and large organizations making the transition to agile development.” —Jim Highsmith, director, Agile Practice, Cutter Consortium, author of Agile Project Management “There’s tension between building software fast and delivering software that lasts, between being ultra-responsive to changes in the market and maintaining a degree of stability. In his latest work, Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell shows how to achieve a pragmatic balance among these forces. Leffingwell’s observations of the problem, his advice on the solution, and his description of the resulting best practices come from experience: he’s been there, done that, and has seen what’s worked.” —Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Agile development practices, while still controversial in some circles, offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer requirements, and higher quality. However, agile practices have been defined and recommended primarily to small teams. In Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods can be applied to enterprise-class development. Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective agile methods. Part II describes seven best practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level. Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that companies can master to achieve the full benefits of software agility on an enterprise scale. This book is invaluable to software developers, testers and QA personnel, managers and team leads, as well as to executives of software organizations whose objective is to increase the quality and productivity of the software development process but who are faced with all the challenges of developing software on an enterprise scale.

Download or read book Agile Software Development Quality Assurance a Complete Guide 2019 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the most effective quality metrics (QM) that are being used in agile organizations? What are the most effective quality metrics that are being used in agile organizations? How does your organization measure maturity of agile software development? How does the customer feedback change the test or the development process? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are you really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Agile Software Development Quality Assurance investments work better. This Agile Software Development Quality Assurance All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Self-Assessment. Featuring 894 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Agile Software Development Quality Assurance improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Agile Software Development Quality Assurance projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Agile Software Development Quality Assurance and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Agile Software Development Quality Assurance areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Download or read book Everything you want to know about Agile written by Jamie Lynn Cooke and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything you want to know about Agile comprehensively addresses the issues that IT departments face when they try to implement Agile approaches within the constraints of their traditional organizations, including existing project frameworks, budgeting structures, contracts and corporate reporting. It is an essential resource for IT departments that want to deliver successful Agile results, even in the most challenging environments"--EBL

Download or read book Agile Software Development Quality Assurance written by Stamelos, Ioannis G. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides the research and instruction used to develop and implement software quickly, in small iteration cycles, and in close cooperation with the customer in an adaptive way, making it possible to react to changes set by the constant changing business environment. It presents four values explaining extreme programming (XP), the most widely adopted agile methodology"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Executive Agile written by Tomasz Manugiewicz and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DESCRIPTION Introducing a groundbreaking book designed to bridge the gap between Agile methodologies and executive leadership. This comprehensive guide offers insights for individuals who want to collaborate effectively with CEOs and C-suite executives in steering organizations towards Agile excellence. This book offers a detailed guide to organizational change management, exploring popular models like Kotter’s model, Kubler-Ross grief cycle, Gartner Hype Cycle, and diffusion of innovation. It provides a solid foundation in Agile and DevOps mindsets, focusing on how to support CEOs and lead Agile transformations. The book introduces the Agile Coaching Competency Model, helping you understand the roles and skills needed for Agile leadership. You will also learn how to enhance your executive presence and influence within your organization. Through practical advice, real-world examples, and proven strategies, this book equips you to excel as an executive Agile coach, driving successful transformations and building strong relationships with C-level executives. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to work with executives on implementing Agile practices, offering practical guidance and deep insights into the challenges and opportunities that come with leading change in today's fast-paced business environment. KEY FEATURES ● This book bridges the gap between Agile practices and executive thinking, addressing the differences in their mindsets. ● It offers guidelines on running Agile transformations and supporting executives through the process. ● The book combines expertise in engineering, Agile practices, and executive leadership. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn about the roles and perspectives of C-suite executives like CEO, CFO, and CTO. ● Differentiate between organizational coaching, mentoring, and executive coaching. ● Master Agile foundations and Agile Transformations. ● Understand change management models like Kotter’s 8-step and Kubler-Ross Change Curve. ● Develop skills in executive presence, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management. ● Develop your career in the organization and unlock your talents. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for specialists, professionals, consultants, and leaders aiming to drive organizational transformation. It provides insights into the C-suite perspective on Agile, helping readers influence change at all levels. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Accountabilities and Operating Model of a CEO 2. Types of C-level Roles 3. Cognitive Biases 4. Getting Buy-in from C-level executives 5. C-level Expectations and Needs 6. Coaching Decoded 7. Clear Vision and Tangible Results 8. Supporting the CEOs 9. Orchestrating Agile Transformation 10. Agile Software Development 11. Building the Agile Transformation Team 12. Introducing Agile Change 13. Your Career Roadmap

Download or read book Agile Software Development Quality Assurance A Complete Guide 2020 Edition written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could flexible agile quality metrics exist for the agile software development process and its deliverables? What test tools do you use? What measures or metrics do you collect? What have you done on this project since the last Daily Scrum Meeting? How is software quality measured? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Agile Software Development Quality Assurance investments work better. This Agile Software Development Quality Assurance All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Self-Assessment. Featuring 946 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Agile Software Development Quality Assurance improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Agile Software Development Quality Assurance projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Agile Software Development Quality Assurance and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Agile Software Development Quality Assurance areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Agile Software Development Quality Assurance self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Agile Software Development Quality Assurance Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Download or read book The Power of the Agile Business Analyst second edition written by Jamie Lynn Cooke and published by IT Governance Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, The Power of the Agile Business Analyst has expanded to include new Agile methods that have emerged or gained prominence since the first edition. Buy this book to learn how to revolutionise your Agile development and increase the value and relevancy of your project outcomes.Learn 30 realistic, achievable ways that an Agile business analyst can increase project efficiency, add value and improve quality.Find out how an Agile business analyst bridges the gap between the needs of the business and the resources of the development team.Now updated with current Agile methods, to support emerging and established business analysts to adapt to new trends. 30 ways an Agile business analyst can help Drawing on her extensive experience, Jamie proposes a new role for Agile projects: The Agile business analyst. She details 30 achievable ways that such a role will increase relevance, quality and overall business value, and provide business users with crucial support. The Agile business analyst is also a boon to the development team, being a ready source of business knowledge and ensuring that project outcomes align with requirements. This book has been updated to: Incorporate behaviour-driven development into the work that the business analyst does to support interface design;Align the programme management strategies of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to encourage cross-organisational communication and participation;Include full updates throughout the Qualifications section in ‘Getting the Right Agile Business Analyst for Your Team’; andProvide Agile updates, bringing the book back into line with current methods. Support your Agile business user for better project outcomes.

Download or read book Evolving Software Processes written by Arif Ali Khan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVOLVING SOFTWARE PROCESSES The book provides basic building blocks of evolution in software processes, such as DevOps, scaling agile process in GSD, in order to lay a solid foundation for successful and sustainable future processes. One might argue that there are already many books that include descriptions of software processes. The answer is “yes, but.” Becoming acquainted with existing software processes is not enough. It is tremendously important to understand the evolution and advancement in software processes so that developers appropriately address the problems, applications, and environments to which they are applied. Providing basic knowledge for these important tasks is the main goal of this book. Industry is in search of software process management capabilities. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the industry’s need for software-specific process management capabilities. Most of today’s products and services are based to a significant degree on software and are the results of largescale development programs. The success of such programs heavily depends on process management capabilities, because they typically require the coordination of hundreds or thousands of developers across different disciplines. Additionally, software and system development are usually distributed across geographical, cultural and temporal boundaries, which make the process management activities more challenging in the current pandemic situation. This book presents an extremely comprehensive overview of the evolution in software processes and provides a platform for practitioners, researchers and students to discuss the studies used for managing aspects of the software process, including managerial, organizational, economic and technical. It provides an opportunity to present empirical evidence, as well as proposes new techniques, tools, frameworks and approaches to maximize the significance of software process management. Audience The book will be used by practitioners, researchers, software engineers, and those in software process management, DevOps, agile and global software development.

Download or read book Leading the Transformation written by Gary Gruver and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most technology executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require. Leading-edge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software projects faster than anyone thought possible. But most executives don't understand how to transform their current legacy systems and processes to scale these principles across their organizations. Leading the Transformation is executive guide, providing a clear framework for improving development and delivery. Instead of the traditional Agile and DevOps approaches that focus on improving the effectiveness of teams, this book targets the coordination of work across teams in large organizations—an improvement that executives are uniquely positioned to lead.

Download or read book Quality of Information and Communications Technology written by Martin Shepperd and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2020, held in Faro, Portugal*, in September 2020. The 27 full papers and 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: quality aspects in machine learning, AI and data analytics; evidence-based software quality engineering; human and artificial intelligences for software evolution; process modeling, improvement and assessment; software quality education and training; quality aspects in quantum computing; safety, security and privacy; ICT verification and validation; RE, MDD and agile. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.