The Art of Agile Practice : A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations

Addressing the growing popularity of Agile software development, this book begins by identifying the challenges currently facing organizations in terms of their development and maintenance approaches. It presents a comprehensive Composite Agile Method and Strategy as a carefully constructed combination of process elements. The book creates and applies relevant metrics and measurements to the entire CAMS lifecycle—opening up the possibility of improving estimations by project managers. It includes figures, case studies, and tables that illustrate key concepts.

The Art of Agile Practice: A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations presents a consistent, integrated, and strategic approach to achieving "Agility" in your business. Transcending beyond Agile as a software development method, it covers the gamut of methods in an organization—including business processes, governance standards, project management, quality management, and business analysis—to show you how to use this composite approach to enhance your ability to adapt and respond to evolving business requirements. The book is divided into three parts:

1. Introduces Agility and identifies the challenges facing organizations in terms of development and maintenance approaches
2. Presents Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS) as a carefully constructed combination of process elements and illustrates its application to development, business management, business analysis, project management, and quality
3. Includes two Agile case studies, a comprehensive index, definitions of key acronyms, and appendices with a current list of Agile methods and interview summaries

The book describes relevant metrics for the entire CAMS lifecycle and explains how to embed Agile practices within formal process-maps in projects. Filled with figures, case studies, and tables that illustrate key concepts, the text is ideal for a two- or three-day training course or workshop. It is also suitable for a 13-week education course for higher degree students that includes process discussions and consideration of Agile values at both software and business levels. The chapters are organized to correspond roughly to such lectures with an option to choose from the case study chapters.