Proyecto

Do It Yourself Agile

Damon B. Poole

September 29th, 2009

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Copyright © 2008-2009 Damon B. Poole
All Rights Reserved
Portions of this book appeared previously in the following publications: “Developers Can Learn a lot
From Salespeople” CMC Media, “Breaking the Major Release Habit” Copyright 2006 ACM, “Think
Globally, Code Locally” Copyright 2007 Dr. Dobbs.

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Table ofContents
Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
About the Author .......................................................................................................................... 10
Notes To theReader...................................................................................................................... 11
Updates In This Version ............................................................................................................... 11
Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 12
Introduction................................................................................................................................... 13
We’ve Heard it All Before ........................................................................................................ 13
Evaluating Agile Development ................................................................................................. 15
Think of Your Software Development Process as a Software Product.................................... 15
Agile for Mainstream Adoption ................................................................................................ 16
From Mainstream to Standard .................................................................................................. 17
Keeping Things in Perspective................................................................................................. 17
A Quick Overview .................................................................................................................... 18
The Primary Benefits of Agile Development ............................................................................... 20
What is Agile Development?.................................................................................................... 20
Defining Agile via Benefits ...................................................................................................... 20
Six Features in Six Months ....................................................................................................... 21
Problems with Quality.............................................................................................................. 21
The Misperception of the Value of Traditional Testing ........................................................... 21
Low Visibility ........................................................................................................................... 22
The Agile Approach.................................................................................................................. 22
Agile Allows for More Flexibility and Options ........................................................................ 22
Agile Provides Faster Realization of ROI ................................................................................ 23
Agile Delivers the Highest Business Value and ROI ............................................................... 23Agile Produces Higher Quality ................................................................................................. 23
Agile Gives High Visibility ...................................................................................................... 24
Sustainable Pace: Supply and Demand ..................................................................................... 24...