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Lean and Agile Development for Large-Scale Products: Key Practices for Sustainable Competitive Success
Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. Drawing on their long experience leading and guiding lean and agile adoptions for large, multisite, and offshore product development, internationally recognized consultant and best-selling author Craig Larman and former leader of the agile transformation at Nokia Networks Bas Vodde share the key action tools needed for success.
Coverage includes
- Frameworks for large-scale Scrum for multihundred-person product groups
- Testing and building quality in
- Product management and the end of the “contract game” between business and R&D
- Envisioning a large release, and planning for multiteam development
- Low-quality legacy code: why it’s created, and how to stop it
- Continuous integration in a large multisite context
- Agile architecting
- Multisite or offshore development
- Contracts and outsourced development
In a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, the practices inspired by lean thinking and agile principles are ever-more relevant. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development will help people realize a lean enterprise—and deliver on the significant benefits of agility.
In addition to the action tools in this text, see the companion book Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrumfor complementary foundation tools.
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Lean and Agile Development for Large-Scale Products: Key Practices for Sustainable Competitive Success
Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. Drawing on their long experience leading and guiding lean and agile adoptions for large, multisite, and offshore product development, internationally recognized consultant and best-selling author Craig Larman and former leader of the agile transformation at Nokia Networks Bas Vodde share the key action tools needed for success.
Coverage includes
- Frameworks for large-scale Scrum for multihundred-person product groups
- Testing and building quality in
- Product management and the end of the “contract game” between business and R&D
- Envisioning a large release, and planning for multiteam development
- Low-quality legacy code: why it’s created, and how to stop it
- Continuous integration in a large multisite context
- Agile architecting
- Multisite or offshore development
- Contracts and outsourced development
In a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, the practices inspired by lean thinking and agile principles are ever-more relevant. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development will help people realize a lean enterprise—and deliver on the significant benefits of agility.
In addition to the action tools in this text, see the companion book Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrumfor complementary foundation tools.
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This is a very good book on agile development, unfortunately, inappropriately named.
1) Readers who bought this book, probably are interested in the additional stuff on multisite and offshore, and not the everything about Agile Development. Thus, this book can be, should be a lot thinner.
2) The book contains lots of good examples. Unfortunately, I have to jump around the book to read them. Thus, the organization of the content can be improved.
Larman, C. and Vodde B.; Addison-Wesley 2010; 598 pages
Not recommended (except for a bit on Agile contracts with suppliers).
This is the second volume of Larman and Vodde's on Agile. It weighs in at almost twice the size of part one, "Scaling Lean and Agile Development". My views on that book were not enthusiastic and although this volume is more practical, there is a lot to get through to find the interesting bits.
Those working in government or public services may find this other book useful instead: Agile Project Management for Government.
Detail:
This is not an introductory text to Agile in general or to Scrum in particular. The general reader is referred to the Internet for that. The authors rather patchily analyse "what is noteworthy in the context of scaling", and this analysis is only 5 pages long! The premise is that "Large-scale Scrum is just Scrum". If this were really the case, I wonder, why is this book needed at all?
I was hoping that the authors would present a convincing argument for uptake of Agile in government (and industry). Scalability is possible and Agile approaches should be more widely used on larger, more complex projects. However, the confused and tortuous prose does not convince.
Lots of interesting ideas are discussed, such as having a hierarchy of a "Scrum of Scrums". Working on multi-sites versus co-locating teams is described, but without analysis or guidance as to when these approaches should be used.
As with Volume 1, some key ideas are introduced late. There is a useful 50 page discussion on contracts towards the end of the book, but the importance of suppliers on large-scale developments should have been discussed up-front.
Important aspects of large scale development are missing (such as implementation, business change and benefits management).
The first book presents theoretical and philosophical underpinnings for agile and lean development. The second book presents a survey of practices relevant to all aspects of the process of developing software at scale, presented by two guys who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table.
The above was taken from a longer review on the Rally Agile blog - you can see the rest of it there ([...] and then follow the links for the agile blog).
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