Directing the agile organisation a lean approach to business management
Improve business adaptability, staff engagement and quality for the benefit of your customers Business systems do not always end up the way that we first plan them. Requirements can change to accommodate a new strategy, a new target or a new competitor. In these circumstances, conventional business...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ely, Cambridgshire :
IT Governance Publishing
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629331206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Introduction
- What is Agile?
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Lean Manufacturing
- Feature Driven Development
- Test-Driven Development
- Extreme Programming
- Common misconceptions
- Governance and Agile Business Management
- Successful Agile Business Management
- Relationship to other management styles
- OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
- Process control loops
- Deming's 14 points
- Theory of Profound Knowledge
- CMMI
- Chapter 1: You, the Agile Manager
- Management responsibilities
- The Agile mindset
- Embraces change
- Accepts failure
- Staff and Customer focused
- Changing your mind
- Chapter 2: Integrated Customer Engagement
- What is a Customer?
- The Customer Representative
- Requirements and the Requirements Backlog
- Chapter 3: The Structure of an Agile Organisation
- Internal departments
- Human Resources
- ICT Support and administration
- Sales and Marketing
- Finance and Accounting
- Media and Communications
- Legal
- Research and Development
- Production and Operations - Delivery Teams
- Other departments
- The Board and executive governance bodies
- Pair Work
- Team Facilitator
- Managing Teams
- Managing Distributed Teams
- Risk management
- Chapter 4: Work, the Agile Way
- Phases of delivery
- Planning phase
- Do phase
- Review phase
- Release phase
- Kanbans
- Quality control
- The Daily Stand-up and Agile meetings
- Effort estimation
- Estimating Requirements
- Estimating tasks
- Estimation process
- Measuring progress
- Visualising progress
- Burndown Charts
- Cumulative Flow Diagrams
- Cycle Time Run Charts
- Chapter 5: The Agile Budget
- Funding models
- Quoting for Customers
- Fixed cost
- Fixed time
- Fixed scope
- Fixed cost and time
- Fixed cost and scope
- Fixed time and scope
- Fixed cost, time and scope.
- Chapter 6: Reflection, Retrospectives and Kaizen
- Chapter 7: The Shape of Things to Come
- Pre-Agile › Learning Agile
- Early Agile › Agile management
- Agile practitioners › Continuous improvement
- Glossary
- Bibliography.
