Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise Author: Dean Leffingwell | Language: English | ISBN:
B004JLMUJU | Format: EPUB
Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise Description
“We need better approaches to understanding and managing software requirements, and Dean provides them in this book. He draws ideas from three very useful intellectual pools: classical management practices, Agile methods, and lean product development. By combining the strengths of these three approaches, he has produced something that works better than any one in isolation.”
–From the Foreword by Don Reinertsen, President of Reinertsen & Associates; author of Managing the Design Factory; and leading expert on rapid product development
Effective requirements discovery and analysis is a critical best practice for serious application development. Until now, however, requirements and Agile methods have rarely coexisted peacefully. For many enterprises considering Agile approaches, the absence of effective and scalable Agile requirements processes has been a showstopper for Agile adoption. In Agile Software Requirements, Dean Leffingwell shows exactly how to create effective requirements in Agile environments.
Part I presents the “big picture” of Agile requirements in the enterprise, and describes an overall process model for Agile requirements at the project team, program, and portfolio levels
Part II describes a simple and lightweight, yet comprehensive model that Agile project teams can use to manage requirements
Part III shows how to develop Agile requirements for complex systems that require the cooperation of multiple teams
Part IV guides enterprises in developing Agile requirements for ever-larger “systems of systems,” application suites, and product portfolios
This book will help you leverage the benefits of Agile without sacrificing the value of effective requirements discovery and analysis. You’ll find proven solutions you can apply right now–whether you’re a software developer or tester, executive, project/program manager, architect, or team leader.
- File Size: 7205 KB
- Print Length: 560 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (December 27, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004JLMUJU
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I still remember the first few pages of Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series). I was in BWI waiting on my daughter's flight to arrive. The book opened with such a great beginning I knew I was going to love it. In a nutshell what I heard the authors say was we have years of experience that you don't, let us show you what we have learned so you don't have to repeat our mistakes. That is my number one reason for reading books. The message at the beginning of this book is the same.
I feel this is the first complete book on what an enterprise level agile process should look like. What baffles me is the number of enterprises I have been in that have not come close to implementing 10% of the process this book outlines, yet they call themselves agile and lean. The one thing this book brings to light is just how complex and advanced agile processes are. Like the book says, "it is not easy, it is agile".
This book has the caveat that certain skills are required for the agile teams to be successful. I agree with that completely. The thing I have a hard time with is the fact that agile processes assume such skill sets are readily available. They aren't. That is why I see such a mess in 90% of the attempts I have seen when enterprises attempt to go agile. Almost all of them will claim to be successful at implementing their agile processes, but budgets and bugs don't lie. Agile does not equate to simple or easy, actually the opposite is true.
So then does that mean agile methods should be avoided and this book is not worth reading? Absolutely not. It is one of the few books that may just help you implement a successful agile enterprise environment.
Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise does a fantastic job of addressing the overall structure required to truly develop software in a manner that ultimately meets the end vision in mind while also establishing the proper transparency and visibility for internal stakeholders and external clients. There are many Agile books do a good job of defining the "process" behind the methodology or the right "technical" philosophy to enable Agile driven development. Several of these books will get folks new to Agile or folks without stakeholder pressure started quickly.
While Lean Requirements for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise will also give you a good grounding on Agile, it's focus is really on establishing the right vision, roadmap, requirements and execution structure to enable large scale development (large number of teams and/or long duration product investments) while remaining Agile from a development team standpoint.
For the longest time, Agile has suffered from myths / challenges including:
* Can't scale to meet a large # of practitioners or teams
* Won't enable software companies to communicate feature availability to clients in future releases
* Won't work for projects requiring upfront intentional / robust architecture
* Can't transform existing Product Management organizations to be effective Product Owners
* Can't enable the right level of visibility and understanding for senior executives
* Etc.
As a result, many large software development efforts have struggled to remain Agile. Lean Requirements for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise finally addresses these challenges and many others.
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