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The Agile Developer's Handbook

You're reading from   The Agile Developer's Handbook Get more value from your software development: get the best out of the Agile methodology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280205
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Flewelling Paul Flewelling
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto 2. Agile Software Delivery Methods and How They Fit the Manifesto FREE CHAPTER 3. Introducing Scrum to your Software Team 4. Gathering Agile User Requirements 5. Bootstrap Teams with Liftoffs 6. Metrics that will Help your Software Team Deliver 7. Software Technical Practices are the Foundation of Incremental Software Delivery 8. Tightening Feedback Loops in the Software Development Life Cycle 9. Seeking Value – How to Deliver Better Software Sooner 10. Using Product Roadmaps to Guide Software Delivery 11. Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility 12. Baking Quality into Our Software Delivery 13. The Ultimate Software Team Member 14. Moving Beyond Isolated Agile Teams 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Seeking value

OKRs, HDD, and DIBBs are all ways to create alignment with our organization's purpose by setting objectives that tie back to its strategic intent. Alignment helps establish the mission, but how do we choose the things that are of the highest priority/value to work on?

All are data-driven approaches, which help us focus on our customer. By setting measurements by which we can determine our success, we can inspect and adapt our approach. In essence, this allows us to optimize the value that we return to the organization.

When we talk about seeking value in a software product development context, we mean maximizing our customer or organization's return on investment. We can do this by prioritizing the delivery of features and User Stories so that we get the best return on investment for our customer (or company, if they are the same thing).

Adaptive planning...

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