Improve and Accelerate Software Delivery for Large, Distributed, Complex Projects The Nexus Framework is the simplest, most effective approach to applying Scrum at scale across multiple teams, sites, and time zones. Created by Scrum.org–the pioneering Scrum training and certification organization founded by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber–Nexus draws on decades of experience to address the unique challenges teams face in coming together, sharing work, and managing and minimizing dependencies. The Nexus™ Framework for Scaling Scrum is a concise book that shows how Nexus helps teams to deliver a complex, multi-platform, software-based product in short, frequent cycles, without sacrificing consistency or quality, and without adding unnecessary complexity or straying from Scrum’s core principles. Using an extended case study, the authors illustrate how Nexus helps teams solve common scaling challenges like reducing cross-team dependencies, preserving team self-organization and transparency, and ensuring accountability. <ul>
<li>Understand the challenges of delivering working, integrated product increments with multiple teams, and how Nexus addresses them</li> <li>Form a Nexus around a new or existing product and learn how that Nexus sets goals and plans its work</li> <li>Run Sprints within a Nexus, provide transparency into progress, conduct effective Nexus Sprint reviews, and use Nexus Sprint Retrospectives to continuously improve</li> <li>Overcome the distributed team collaboration challenges</li> </ul>

Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, The: Continuously Delivering an Integrated Product with Multiple Scrum Teams (The Professional Scrum Series)

Computers & Technology

Bittner, Kurt

West, Dave

Kong, Patricia

Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional

The Practical Guide to Optimizing Product Value through Better Teamwork with Scrum "Professional Scrum is hard, not because the ideas are hard, but because it requires persistence, focus, and dedication to not let the day-to-day realities get in the way. In this book, Peter, Uwe, and Kurt have provided a collection of materials to help the Scrum Team deliver value and feel happy doing it." --Dave West, CEO and Product Owner, Scrum.org Teams and individuals find the rules of the Scrum Framework to be easy to describe but challenging to implement. The Professional Scrum Team helps you bring the Scrum Framework rules to life in your everyday work, optimizing both team and individual performance and creating more value. Three leading Scrum experts bring together proven practices based on decades of real-life experience participating in, leading, and supporting Scrum Teams. They introduce a team as it starts out with Scrum and follow it as it gains hard-won practical experience, gradually mastering the intense collaboration that Scrum demands. As you share the team's experience--facing and overcoming realistic challenges--you'll discover better ways to work together, enhance your practices, leverage tools, continuously improve, and deliver functionality in ever-shorter cycles. <ul> <li>Understand how Scrum Teams work, collaborate, and promote transparency</li> <li>Explore common problems that lead less experienced Scrum Teams to give up</li> <li>Find your Scrum Team's best approach to solving complex adaptive problems</li> <li>Integrate DevOps practices with Scrum to improve effectiveness</li> <li>Productively and professionally resolve conflicts that arise from close collaboration</li> <li>Help your organization learn how to improve its results by better supporting its Scrum Teams</li> </ul> This guide is for anyone who works with Scrum Teams or wants to become more effective as a Scrum Team member or leader. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Professional Scrum Team, The (The Professional Scrum Series)

Business & Money

Götz, Peter

Schirmer, Uwe

Management & Leadership

About the Author\nRon Eringa is a Leadership Developer. His mission is to create organizations where people love to work and where real customer value is created. In the last 20 years he has built expertise on how to lead IT organizations that use Agile and Scrum. After an initial education in electrical engineering and software engineering he ended up in different leadership roles. In these roles he discovered the leadership capabilities that are essential to create autonomous teams with a high level of maturity and creativity. He believes that autonomous teams are the fundament of a modern organization that thrives in this complex and ever-changing world.\nKurt Bittner has been delivering working products in short, feedback-driven cycles for nearly 40 years, and has helped many organizations do the same. He is particularly interested in helping people form strong, self-organizing, high-performance teams that deliver solutions that customers love, and helping organizations use empirical feedback to achieve customer outcome-focused goals. He is an author or editor of many books on agile product development, including Mastering Professional Scrum, The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide, The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, The Professional Scrum Team, and Professional Agile Leadership, as well as The Guide to Evidence-Based Management, and The Nexus Guide. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.\nLaurens Bonnema is an Agile Trainer and Management Consultant and a mentor to leaders creating resilient organizations at any scale. He has a strong background in IT with experience in almost every role. As a Professional Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified Agile Master, Agile Master Assessor, IPMA Agile Assessor, and PRINCE2 Practitioner, Laurens strives to merge classic and agile management in the conviction that it is the future of professional management. As a Professional Scrum Trainer and SAFe Program Consultant, he helps to improve the profession of software delivery as well as marketing, human resources, and finance. Laurens brings his experience in enterprise IT since 1999 and on Scrum Teams since 2006 to his teaching, is a driving force in the agile community, and a sought-after speaker at conferences and events.\nHone Your Agile Leadership Skills to Help Your Organization Transform and Thrive 
To leverage the immense opportunities associated with accelerating change, organizations need teams capable of trying new ideas quickly, learning from their experiences, and adapting based on that learning. Helping these teams to grow and thrive requires agile leaders who support, inspire, and encourage, and who can leave behind the management skills of directing, monitoring, and rewarding or punishing. 
The Professional Agile Leader is a realistic, practical guide, written by experienced agile leaders who share their collective experiences in helping agile leaders to grow responsive and adaptive teams. They structure powerful lessons around a case study based on decades of experience helping agile leaders achieve and sustain agile transformation. Best of all, they never settle for high-level hand-waving--they show you how it's really done. Reignite once-successful organizations that have lost their way Form cross-functional teams and empower them with purpose Learn to let go, as your teams start taking more responsibility Overcome forces that want to reel you back into the "old rules" Realign the whole organization, since agile and traditional models can't coexist forever Achieve the most challenging goal of all: changing culture 
Great agile leaders aren't born that way--they're regular people who care deeply about helping others achieve shared goals and have discovered a better way to lead. Whatever your role in the organization, this guide will help you master those skills and mindsets a whole lot faster. 
"Drawing on vast experience, Ron, Kurt, and Laurens tease out practical tips and

The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations (The Professional Scrum Series)

Eringa, Ron

Bonnema, Laurens

Leverage Evidence-Based Management, a scientific method, to enable organizations to achieve goals under conditions of uncertainty. &nbsp; Organizations often believe in the certainty of their plans and see every deviation from the plan as a sign of failure. They view the organization as a machine for creating and executing plans instead of looking at it as a responsive organism, attentive to the changes in its environment. In a world of uncertainties, organizations need to be capable of reinventing themselves every day based on new information. &nbsp; In Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management, authors Patricia Kong, Todd Miller, Kurt Bittner, and Ryan Ripley use the framework developed by Scrum.org called Evidence-Based Management (EBM). EBM is an empirical approach that helps organizations use experimentation and rapid feedback to progress toward goals. This path is not always obvious or straightforward, but that is a benefit: in a complex and changing world, the path toward goals will always be uncertain. EBM helps organizations use new data to adapt their plan toward their goals. &nbsp; Throughout the book, the authors present stories and experiences that illustrate how EBM can be applied to set better goals and then leverage empiricism to achieve those goals using feedback, learning, and evidence. This definitive guide will help your organization identify its true purpose, improve its ability to reach goals, and build a culture of trust, transparency, and growth. <ul> <li>Clarify goals and demonstrate value, success, and progress using agile metrics</li> <li>Progress toward goals in uncertain and rapidly changing circumstances</li> <li>Embrace empiricism and experimentation to find solutions for complex problems</li> <li>Find real-world anonymized case studies on how to articulate goals and measurements in a way that fosters self-management and business agility</li> </ul> &nbsp; Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness (The Professional Scrum Series)

Miller, Todd

Ripley, Ryan

-- A ready reference for the use case practitioner.
-- Reviews the fundamentals of use cases, and then explores the details of writing better use cases.
-- Based on real-world issues, and how project teams overcame them.
Use cases are a simple, straightforward -- yet very powerful -- way to express the functional requirements (or behaviors) of a system. Use cases have gained widespread acceptance because they make requirements less ambiguous by specifying exactly when and under what conditions certain behaviors occur. As a result, those who effective employ use cases to model their systems can better deliver projects on time, within budget, and with fewer defects. However, use case modeling is not that easy; it is a practice that comes with characteristics that can impact a project. In this new book, the authors allow you to benefit from their considerable experience making use cases work well in a number of different environments. With the advice, tips, and tricks presented herein, the reader will be further along the path to understanding and exploiting the power of use cases, and ultimately constructing better applications. In writing this book, the authors have worked closely with use case founder Ivar Jacobson, and the book is unique in that it presents a Rational Software Corporation-centric examination of this topic.

Use Case Modeling

AddisonWesley Professional

The practical, start-to-finish guide to planning and leading iterative software projects iterative processes have gained widespread acceptance because they help software developers reduce risk and cost, manage change, improve productivity, and deliver more effective, timely solutions. But conventional project management techniques don't work well in iterative projects, and newer iterative management techniques have been poorly documented. Managing Iterative Software Development Projects is the solution: a relentlessly practical guide to planning, organizing, estimating, staffing, and managing any iterative project, from start to finish. Leading iterative development experts, Kurt Bittner and Ian Spence introduce a proven, scalable approach that improves both agility and control at the same time, satisfying the needs of developers, managers, and the business alike. Their techniques are easy to understand, and easy to use with any iterative methodology, from Rational Unified Process to Extreme Programming to the Microsoft Solutions Framework. sponsor, or user representative - this book will help you: understand the key drivers of success in iterative projects; leverage time boxing to define project lifecycles and measure results; use Unified Process phases to facilitate controlled iterative development; master core concepts of iterative project management, including layering and evolution; create project roadmaps, including release plans; discover key patterns of risk management, estimation, organization, and iteration planning; understand what must be controlled centrally, and what you can safely delegate; transition smoothly to iterative processes; scale iterative project management from the smallest to the largest projects; and align software investments with the needs of the business. Whether you are interested in software development using RUP, OpenUP, or other agile processes, this book will help you reduce the anxiety and cost associated with software improvement by providing an easy, non-intrusive path toward improved results - without overwhelming you and your team.

Managing Iterative Software Development Projects

Results-Based Software Management: Achieve Better Outcomes with Finite Resources Effective software development is no longer merely an IT concern: today, it is crucial to the entire enterprise. However, most businesspeople are not ready to make informed decisions about software initiatives. The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results will prepare them. Drawing on decades of software development and business experience, the authors demonstrate how to utilize practical, economics-based techniques to plan and manage software projects for maximum return on technology investments. The authors begin by dispelling widespread myths about software costs, explaining why traditional, “engineering-based” software management introduces unacceptable inefficiencies in today’s development environments. Next, they show business and technical managers how to combine the principles of economics and iterative development to achieve optimal results with limited resources. Using their techniques, readers will learn how to build systems that enable maximum business innovation and process improvement–and implement software processes that allow them to do so consistently. Highlights include <ul>
<li> How to repeatedly quantify the value a project is delivering and quickly adjust course as needed </li> <li> How to reduce software project size, complexity, and other “project killers” </li> <li> How to identify and eliminate software development processes that don’t work </li> <li> How to improve development processes, reduce rework, mitigate risk, and identify inefficiencies </li> <li> How to create more proficient teams by improving individual skills, team interactions, and organizational capability </li> <li> Where to use integrated, automated tools to improve effectiveness </li> <li> What to measure, and when: specific metrics for project inception, elaboration, construction, and transition </li> </ul>
 The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results will help both business and technical managers make better decisions throughout the software development process–and it will help team and project leaders keep any project or initiative on track, so they can deliver more value faster.

The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results

Royce, Walker

Perrow, Mike

Computer Science

Results-Based Software Management: Achieve Better Outcomes with Finite Resources    Effective software development is no longer merely an IT concern: today, it is crucial to the entire enterprise. However, most businesspeople are not ready to make informed decisions about software initiatives.   The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results   will prepare them. Drawing on decades of software development and business experience, the authors demonstrate how to utilize practical, economics-based techniques to plan and manage software projects for maximum return on technology investments.   The authors begin by dispelling widespread myths about software costs, explaining why traditional, “engineering-based” software management introduces unacceptable inefficiencies in today’s development environments. Next, they show business and technical managers how to combine the principles of economics and iterative development to achieve optimal results with limited resources. Using their techniques, readers will learn how to build systems that enable maximum business innovation and process improvement–and implement software processes that allow them to do so consistently.   Highlights include   How to repeatedly quantify the value a project is delivering and quickly adjust course as needed   How to reduce software project size, complexity, and other “project killers”   How to identify and eliminate software development processes that don’t work   How to improve development processes, reduce rework, mitigate risk, and identify inefficiencies   How to create more proficient teams by improving individual skills, team interactions, and organizational capability   Where to use integrated, automated tools to improve effectiveness    What to measure, and when: specific metrics for project inception, elaboration, construction, and transition      The Economics of Iterative Software Development: Steering Toward Better Business Results   will help both business and technical managers make better decisions throughout the software development process–and it will help team and project leaders keep any project or initiative on track, so they can deliver more value faster.

The Economics of Iterative Software Development (Paperback): Steering Toward Better Business Results

Perrow, Michael

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