The Agile Software Development Series Series

Brings the best thinking in the agile development community to street-level in the form of implementable strategy and tactics. This title is of interest to those who share the passion for creating quality software.

Scrumban is a powerful approach to supercharging team and organizational performance, by integrating the best elements of Scrum, Kanban, and many other models and frameworks. Now, there's a complete guide to Scrumban for every IT, software, and knowledge professional who wants to apply it. Whatever your role -- even if you're not a team leader -- you'll learn how to use Scrumban to help your organization thrive. Pioneering Scrumban consultants Ajay Reddy and Jack Speranza introduce the technical principles of Scrumban, offering a firm foundation for applying it in your environment. Next, they present a start-to-finish case study demonstrating Scrumban at work. You'll learn how to use Scrumban to drive consistent business performance improvements, year after year -- and find key takeaways for implementing it more effectively. Exceptionally readable and actionable, Scrumban empowers you to gain more influence by delivering better results.

The chapters in this book cover managing software debt, technical debt, sustaining internal quality, quality debt, design debt, technology evaluation styles, and much more.

Larman and Vodde share the key thinking and organizational tools needed to plant the seeds of product development success in a fertile lean and agile enterprise.

Beyond Requirements shows how to use business analysis practices and techniques to identify key business problems, find optimal solutions, and successfully implement them. Unlike most business analysis texts, it places analysis techniques in context, positioning them as a "means to the end" of solving organisational problems, not as an end in themselves.