Directing the Agile organisation
Subtitle: a lean approach to business management
By: Evan Leybourn
Publisher: IT Governance Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ely, U.K
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781849284929; 9781849284912
Subjects: Business logistics; Management; Organizational effectiveness; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Project Management; Industrial Management; Management Science; Organizational Behavior
Description: Directing the Agile Organisation will be of interest to managers and senior executives who want to improve business processes in order to remain competitive in today's market.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; What is Agile?; Scrum; Kanban; Lean Manufacturing; Feature Driven Development; Test-Driven Development; Extreme Programming; Common misconceptions; Governance and Agile Business Management; Successful Agile Business Management; Relationship to other management styles; OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; Process control loops; Deming's 14 points; Theory of Profound Knowledge; CMMI; Chapter 1: You, the Agile Manager; Management responsibilities; The Agile mindset; Embraces change; Accepts failure; Staff and Customer focused; Changing your mind.; title: Chapter 2: Integrated Customer EngagementWhat is a Customer?; The Customer Representative; Requirements and the Requirements Backlog; Chapter 3: The Structure of an Agile Organisation; Internal departments; Human Resources; ICT Support and administration; Sales and Marketing; Finance and Accounting; Media and Communications; Legal; Research and Development; Production and Operations; title: Delivery Teams; Other departments; The Board and executive governance bodies; Pair Work; Team Facilitator; Managing Teams; Managing Distributed Teams; Risk management; Chapter 4: Work, the Agile Way.; title: Phases of deliveryPlanning phase; Do phase; Review phase; Release phase; Kanbans; Quality control; The Daily Stand-up and Agile meetings; Effort estimation; Estimating Requirements; Estimating tasks; Estimation process; Measuring progress; Visualising progress; Burndown Charts; Cumulative Flow Diagrams; Cycle Time Run Charts; Chapter 5: The Agile Budget; Funding models; Quoting for Customers; Fixed cost; Fixed time; Fixed scope; Fixed cost and time; Fixed cost and scope; Fixed time and scope; Fixed cost, time and scope; Chapter 6: Reflection, Retrospectives and Kaizen.; title: Chapter 7: The Shape of Things to ComePre-Agile &#x203A; Learning Agile; Early Agile &#x203A; Agile management; Agile practitioners &#x203A; Continuous improvement; Glossary; Bibliography.