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Driving Value With Sprint Goals - Humble Plans, Exceptional Results

by Maarten Dalmijn

52,99€ + 10% CARD

 Leverage Sprint Goals to Supercharge Teamwork and Build Winning Products There are many books on Scrum and how to do Scrum the right way. This isn''t one of those books. Driving Value with Sprint Goals will teach you how to deliver exceptional value. To build great products, all teams and participants must align behind clear goals that deliver real value (outcomes)--not just more features (output). Sprint Goals are your most powerful tool for achieving this alignment, but many teams avoid, misuse, or struggle with them. Maarten Dalmijn guides you through defining, creating, and executing on Sprint Goals that deliver outstanding value to customers and the business. This concise guide is packed with strategies and concepts for building high-performing teams that accelerate the delivery of value. As you reconsider critical Scrum and product management processes through the lens of the Sprint Goal, you can transform your entire organization from being low-value "feature factories" to delivering high-value outcomes. <ul> <li>Understand how making plans doesn''t start with planning but with intent</li> <li>Use humble planning together with intent to deal with surprises as you discover and learn what''s necessary while you do the work</li> <li>Establish a laser-like focus on driving the outputs that lead to the most valuable outcomes</li> <li>Learn how to use Sprint Goals throughout the Sprint, at Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and for the ongoing work of building high-performing teams</li> <li>Learn what happens when Sprint Goals are absent or misapplied, and how to avoid those pitfalls</li> </ul> Driving Value with Sprint Goals will reshape the way you think about delivering value by offering a fresh and cohesive perspective invaluable to every Product Owner, Product Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, and tech executive. "Maarten masterfully bridges the gap between Scrum and product management. If you want to create products that truly make a difference, you need to read this book." --Pawel Huryn, Author, Product Coach Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
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Agile Game Development With Scrum

by Clinton Keith

34,77€ + 10% CARD

 Deliver Better Games Faster, On Budget-And Make Game Development Fun Again! Game development is in crisis-facing bloated budgets, impossible schedules, unmanageable complexity, and death march overtime. It's no wonder so many development studios are struggling to survive. Fortunately, there is a solution. Scrum and Agile methods are already revolutionizing development outside the game industry. Now, long-time game developer Clinton Keith shows exactly how to successfully apply these methods to the unique challenges of game development. Keith has spent more than fifteen years developing games, seven of them with Scrum and agile methods. Drawing on this unparalleled expertise, he shows how teams can use Scrum to deliver games more efficiently, rapidly, and cost-effectively; craft games that offer more entertainment value; and make life more fulfilling for development teams at the same time. You'll learn to form successful agile teams that incorporate programmers, producers, artists, testers, and designers-and promote effective collaboration within and beyond those teams, throughout the entire process. From long-range planning to progress tracking and continuous integration, Keith offers dozens of tips, tricks, and solutions-all based firmly in reality and hard-won experience. Coverage includes Understanding Scrum's goals, roles, and practices in the context of game development Communicating and planning your game's vision, features, and progress Using iterative techniques to put your game into a playable state every two to four weeks- even daily Helping all team participants succeed in their roles Restoring stability and predictability to the development process Managing ambiguous requirements in a fluid marketplace Scaling Scrum to large, geographically distributed development teams Getting started: overcoming inertia and integrating Scrum into your studio's current processes Increasingly, game developers and managers are recognizing that things can't go on the way they have in the past. Game development organizations need a far better way to work. Agile Game Development with Scrum gives them that-and brings the profitability, creativity, and fun back to game development.
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Coaching Agile Teams - A Companion For Scrummasters, Agile Coaches, And Project Managers In Transition

by Lyssa Adkins

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from "command and control" to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes <ul> <li>Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach</li> <li>Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach</li> <li>Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge</li> <li>Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration </li> <li>Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes</li> <li>Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth</li> <li>Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching</li> <li>Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey</li> </ul> Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?

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Management 3.0 - Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Adobe Reader)

by Jurgen Appelo

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 In many organizations, management is the biggest obstacle to successful Agile development. Unfortunately, reliable guidance on Agile management has been scarce indeed. Now, leading Agile manager Jurgen Appelo fills that gap, introducing a realistic approach to leading, managing, and growing your Agile team or organization. Writing for current managers and developers moving into management, Appelo shares insights that are grounded in modern complex systems theory, reflecting the intense complexity of modern software development. Appelo’s Management 3.0 model recognizes that today’s organizations are living, networked systems; and that management is primarily about people and relationships. Management 3.0 doesn’t offer mere checklists or prescriptions to follow slavishly; rather, it deepens your understanding of how organizations and Agile teams work and gives you tools to solve your own problems. Drawing on his extensive experience as an Agile manager, the author identifies the most important practices of Agile management and helps you improve each of them. Coverage includes • Getting beyond "Management 1.0" control and "Management 2.0" fads • Understanding how complexity affects your organization • Keeping your people active, creative, innovative, and motivated • Giving teams the care and authority they need to grow on their own • Defining boundaries so teams can succeed in alignment with business goals • Sowing the seeds for a culture of software craftsmanship • Crafting an organizational network that promotes success • Implementing continuous improvement that actually works Thoroughly pragmatic-and never trendy-Jurgen Appelo’s Management 3.0 helps you bring greater agility to any software organization, team, or project.
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Essential Scrum - A Practical Guide To The Most Popular Agile Process

by Kenneth S. Rubin

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 This book brings together all the non-technical information managers and practitioners need to evaluate and get started with Scrum, today's no.1 Agile process. It demystifies Scrum and Agile with simple, fast-paced explanations, over 100 easy-to-follow illustrations, and quick paragraph summaries.
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Agile Product Management With Scrum - Creating Products That Customers Love (Adobe Reader)

by Roman Pichler

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 In Scrum projects, product owners play a pivotal role, but few have been trained in the unique skills, techniques, & attitudes needed to succeed in this role. 'Agile Product Management with Scrum' offers the start-to-finish guidance & practical insights you need to become an outstanding product owner & to deliver software that customers love.
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Succeeding With Agile - Software Development Using Scrum (Adobe Reader)

by Mike Cohn

49,01€ + 10% CARD

 Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any Organization This is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile-and then succeeding over the long haul. Leading agile consultant and practitioner Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work. Succeeding with Agile is for pragmatic software professionals who want real answers to the most difficult challenges they face in implementing Scrum. Cohn covers every facet of the transition: getting started, helping individuals transition to new roles, structuring teams, scaling up, working with a distributed team, and finally, implementing effective metrics and continuous improvement. Throughout, Cohn presents "Things to Try Now" sections based on his most successful advice. Complementary "Objection" sections reproduce typical conversations with those resisting change and offer practical guidance for addressing their concerns. Coverage includes Practical ways to get started immediately-and "get good" fast Overcoming individual resistance to the changes Scrum requires Staffing Scrum projects and building effective teams Establishing "improvement communities" of people who are passionate about driving change Choosing which agile technical practices to use or experiment with Leading self-organizing teams Making the most of Scrum sprints, planning, and quality techniques Scaling Scrum to distributed, multiteam projects Using Scrum on projects with complex sequential processes or challenging compliance and governance requirements Understanding Scrum's impact on HR, facilities, and project management Whether you've completed a few sprints or multiple agile projects and whatever your role-manager, developer, coach, ScrumMaster, product owner, analyst, team lead, or project lead-this book will help you succeed with your very next project. Then, it will help you go much further: It will help you transform your entire development organization.
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Agile Testing - A Practical Guide For Testers And Agile Teams

by Janet Gregory e Lisa Crispin

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 Testing is a key component of agile development. The widespread adoption of agile methods has brought the need for effective testing into the limelight, and agile projects have transformed the role of testers. Much of a tester’s function, however, remains largely misunderstood. What is the true role of a tester? Do agile teams actually need members with QA backgrounds? What does it really mean to be an "agile tester?" Two of the industry’s most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, have teamed up to bring you the definitive answers to these questions and many others. In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help. The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors of agile testing. Readers will come away from this book understanding <ul> <li>How to get testers engaged in agile development </li> <li>Where testers and QA managers fit on an agile team </li> <li>What to look for when hiring an agile tester </li> <li>How to transition from a traditional cycle to agile development </li> <li>How to complete testing activities in short iterations </li> <li>How to use tests to successfully guide development </li> <li>How to overcome barriers to test automation</li> </ul>This book is a must for agile testers, agile teams, their managers, and their customers.
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Agile Testing Collection, The

by Janet Gregory e Lisa Crispin

86,11€ + 10% CARD

 A Comprehensive Collection of Agile Testing Best Practices: Two Definitive Guides from Leading Pioneers Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin haven’t just pioneered agile testing, they have also written two of the field’s most valuable guidebooks. Now, you can get both guides in one indispensable eBook collection: today’s must-have resource for all agile testers, teams, managers, and customers. Combining comprehensive best practices and wisdom contained in these two titles, The Agile Testing Collection will help you adapt agile testing to your environment, systematically improve your skills and processes, and strengthen engagement across your entire development team. The first title, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, defines the agile testing discipline and roles, and helps you choose, organize, and use the tools that will help you the most. Writing from the tester’s viewpoint, Gregory and Crispin chronicle an entire agile software development iteration, and identify and explain seven key success factors of agile testing. The second title, More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, addresses crucial emerging issues, shares evolved practices, and covers key issues that delivery teams want to learn more about. It offers powerful new insights into continuous improvement, scaling agile testing across teams and the enterprise, overcoming pitfalls of automation, testing in regulated environments, integrating DevOps practices, and testing mobile/embedded and business intelligence systems. The Agile Testing Collection will help you do all this and much more. <ul> <li>Customize agile testing processes to your needs, and successfully transition to them</li> <li>Organize agile teams, clarify roles, hire new testers, and quickly bring them up to speed</li> <li>Engage testers in agile development, and help agile team members improve their testing skills</li> <li>Use tests and collaborate with business experts to plan features and guide development </li> <li>Design automated tests for superior reliability and easier maintenance</li> <li>Plan "just enough," balancing small increments with larger feature sets and the entire system</li> <li>Test to identify and mitigate risks, and prevent future defects</li> <li>Perform exploratory testing using personas, tours, and test charters with session- and thread-based techniques</li> <li>Help testers, developers, and operations experts collaborate on shortening feedback cycles with continuous integration and delivery</li> </ul> Both guides in this collection are thoroughly grounded in the authors’ extensive experience, and supported by examples from actual projects. Now, with both books integrated into a single, easily searchable, and cross-linked eBook, you can learn from their experience even more easily.
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Scrum Field Guide, The - Agile Advice For Your First Year And Beyond

by Mitch Lacey

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 Thousands of organizations are adopting Scrum to transform the way they execute complex projects, in software and beyond. This guide will give you the skills and confidence needed to deploy Scrum, resulting in high-performing teams and satisfied customers. Drawing on years of hands-on experience helping companies succeed, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Mitch Lacey helps you overcome the major challenges of Scrum adoption and the deeper issues that emerge later. Extensively revised to reflect improved Scrum practices and tools, this edition adds an all-new section of tips from the field. Lacey covers many new topics, including immersive interviewing, collaborative estimation, and deepening business alignment. In 35 engaging chapters, you’ll learn how to build support and maximize value across your company. Now part of the renowned Mike Cohn Signature Series on agile development, this pragmatic guide addresses everything from establishing roles and priorities to determining team velocity, setting sprint length, and conducting customer reviews. Coverage includes <ul> <li>Bringing teams and new team members on board</li> <li>Creating a workable definition of "done"</li> <li>Planning for short-term wins, and removing impediments to success</li> <li>Balancing predictability and adaptability in release planning</li> <li>Running productive daily scrums</li> <li>Fixing failing sprints</li> <li>Accurately costing projects, and measuring the value they deliver</li> <li>Managing risks in dynamic Scrum projects</li> <li>Prioritizing and estimating backlogs</li> <li>Working with distributed and offshore teams</li> <li>Institutionalizing improvements, and extending agility throughout the organization</li> </ul> Packed with real-world examples straight from Lacey’s experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone transitioning to Scrum, seeking to improve their early results, or trying to get back on track.
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More Agile Testing - Learning Journeys For The Whole Team

by Janet Gregory e Lisa Crispin

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin pioneered the agile testing discipline with their previous work, Agile Testing. Now, in More Agile Testing, they reflect on all they’ve learned since. They address crucial emerging issues, share evolved agile practices, and cover key issues agile testers have asked to learn more about. Packed with new examples from real teams, this insightful guide offers detailed information about adapting agile testing for your environment; learning from experience and continually improving your test processes; scaling agile testing across teams; and overcoming the pitfalls of automated testing. You’ll find brand-new coverage of agile testing for the enterprise, distributed teams, mobile/embedded systems, regulated environments, data warehouse/BI systems, and DevOps practices. You’ll come away understanding • How to clarify testing activities within the team • Ways to collaborate with business experts to identify valuable features and deliver the right capabilities • How to design automated tests for superior reliability and easier maintenance • How agile team members can improve and expand their testing skills • How to plan "just enough," balancing small increments with larger feature sets and the entire system • How to use testing to identify and mitigate risks associated with your current agile processes and to prevent defects • How to address challenges within your product or organizational context • How to perform exploratory testing using "personas" and "tours" • Exploratory testing approaches that engage the whole team, using test charters with session- and thread-based techniques • How to bring new agile testers up to speed quickly-without overwhelming them The eBook edition of More Agile Testing also is available as part of a two-eBook collection, The Agile Testing Collection (9780134190624).
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Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners - Agile Tactics, Tools, & Tips

by Ilan Goldstein

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Practical, Step-by-Step Scrum Techniques for Improving Processes, Actions, and Outcomes The widespread adoption and success of Scrum can be attributed in large part to its perceived intuitiveness and simplicity. But when new Scrum practitioners attempt to apply Scrum theory and high-level approaches in actual projects, they often find it surprisingly difficult. In Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Scrum expert Ilan Goldstein helps you translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum challenges your formal training never warned you about. Drawing on his extensive agile experience in a wide range of projects and environments, Goldstein presents thirty proven, flexible shortcuts for optimizing Scrum processes, actions, and outcomes. Each shortcut walks you through applying a Scrum approach to achieve a tangible output. These easy-to-digest, actionable patterns address a broad range of topics including getting started, quality and metrics, team members and roles, managing stakeholders, estimation, continuous improvement and much more. Whatever your role, Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners will help you take your Scrum skills to the next level and achieve better results in any project you participate in.
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Agile Game Development With Scrum

by Clinton Keith

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Deliver Better Games Faster, On Budget-And Make Game Development Fun Again! Game development is in crisis-facing bloated budgets, impossible schedules, unmanageable complexity, and death march overtime. It's no wonder so many development studios are struggling to survive. Fortunately, there is a solution. Scrum and Agile methods are already revolutionizing development outside the game industry. Now, long-time game developer Clinton Keith shows exactly how to successfully apply these methods to the unique challenges of game development. Keith has spent more than fifteen years developing games, seven of them with Scrum and agile methods. Drawing on this unparalleled expertise, he shows how teams can use Scrum to deliver games more efficiently, rapidly, and cost-effectively; craft games that offer more entertainment value; and make life more fulfilling for development teams at the same time. You'll learn to form successful agile teams that incorporate programmers, producers, artists, testers, and designers-and promote effective collaboration within and beyond those teams, throughout the entire process. From long-range planning to progress tracking and continuous integration, Keith offers dozens of tips, tricks, and solutions-all based firmly in reality and hard-won experience. Coverage includes Understanding Scrum's goals, roles, and practices in the context of game development Communicating and planning your game's vision, features, and progress Using iterative techniques to put your game into a playable state every two to four weeks- even daily Helping all team participants succeed in their roles Restoring stability and predictability to the development process Managing ambiguous requirements in a fluid marketplace Scaling Scrum to large, geographically distributed development teams Getting started: overcoming inertia and integrating Scrum into your studio's current processes Increasingly, game developers and managers are recognizing that things can't go on the way they have in the past. Game development organizations need a far better way to work. Agile Game Development with Scrum gives them that-and brings the profitability, creativity, and fun back to game development.
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Coaching Agile Teams - A Companion For Scrummasters, Agile Coaches, And Project Managers In Transition

by Lyssa Adkins

38,41€ + 10% CARD

 The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from "command and control" to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes <ul> <li>Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach</li> <li>Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach</li> <li>Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge</li> <li>Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration </li> <li>Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes</li> <li>Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth</li> <li>Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching</li> <li>Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey</li> </ul> Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?
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Unlocking Agility - An Insider''S Guide To Agile Enterprise Transformation

by Jorgen Hesselberg

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 Practical Guidance and Inspiration for Launching, Sustaining, or Improving Any Agile Enterprise Transformation Initiative As long-time competitive advantages disappear, astute executives and change agents know they must achieve true agile transformation. In Unlocking Agility, Jorgen Hesselberg reveals what works, what doesn’t, and how to overcome the daunting obstacles. Distilling 10+ years of experience leading agile transformation in the enterprise, Hesselberg guides you on jumpstarting change, sustaining momentum, and executing superbly on customer commitments as you move forward. He helps you identify appropriate roles for consultants, optimize organizational structures, set realistic expectations, and measure against them. He shares first-hand accounts from pioneering transformation leaders at firms including Intel, Nokia, Salesforce.com, Spotify, and many more. • Balance building the right thing, the right way, at the right speed • Design a holistic transformation strategy using five dimensions of agility: Technology, Organizational Design, People, Leadership, and Culture • Promote agile skills, knowledge, and abilities throughout your workforce • Incorporate powerful leadership models, including Level 5, Teal, and Beyond Budgeting • Leverage business agility metrics to affect norms and change organizational culture • Establish your Agile Working Group, the engine of agile transformation • Define operating models and strategic roadmaps for unlocking agility, and track your progress You already know agile transformation is essential. Now, discover how to customize your strategy, execute on it in your environment, and achieve it.
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Unlocking Agility - An Insider''S Guide To Agile Enterprise Transformation

by Jorgen Hesselberg

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 Practical Guidance and Inspiration for Launching, Sustaining, or Improving Any Agile Enterprise Transformation Initiative As long-time competitive advantages disappear, astute executives and change agents know they must achieve true agile transformation. In Unlocking Agility, Jorgen Hesselberg reveals what works, what doesn’t, and how to overcome the daunting obstacles. Distilling 10+ years of experience leading agile transformation in the enterprise, Hesselberg guides you on jumpstarting change, sustaining momentum, and executing superbly on customer commitments as you move forward. He helps you identify appropriate roles for consultants, optimize organizational structures, set realistic expectations, and measure against them. He shares first-hand accounts from pioneering transformation leaders at firms including Intel, Nokia, Salesforce.com, Spotify, and many more. • Balance building the right thing, the right way, at the right speed • Design a holistic transformation strategy using five dimensions of agility: Technology, Organizational Design, People, Leadership, and Culture • Promote agile skills, knowledge, and abilities throughout your workforce • Incorporate powerful leadership models, including Level 5, Teal, and Beyond Budgeting • Leverage business agility metrics to affect norms and change organizational culture • Establish your Agile Working Group, the engine of agile transformation • Define operating models and strategic roadmaps for unlocking agility, and track your progress You already know agile transformation is essential. Now, discover how to customize your strategy, execute on it in your environment, and achieve it.
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Improving Agile Retrospectives - Helping Teams Become More Efficient

by Marc Loeffler

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Agile retrospectives help you get to the root of your real problems, so you can solve them quickly and effectively. They’re the cornerstone of a successful continuous improvement process, and one of your best tools for triggering positive cultural change. In Improving Agile Retrospectives, leading agile coach/trainer Marc Loeffler combines practical guidance, proven practices, and innovative approaches for maximizing the value of retrospectives for your team—and your entire organization. You can apply his powerful techniques in any project, agile or otherwise. These techniques offer exceptional value wherever continuous improvement is needed: from "lessons-learned" workshops in traditional project management to enterprise-wide change management. Loeffler’s detailed, results-focused examples help you recognize and overcome common pitfalls, adapt retrospectives to your unique needs, and consistently achieve tangible results. Throughout, he integrates breakthrough concepts, such as using experimentation and learning from system thinking. He presents small ideas that make a big difference—because they’re deeply grounded in real experience. • Learn from failures and successes, and make good things even better • Master facilitation techniques that help you achieve your goals (and have fun doing it) • Prepare your retrospective so it runs smoothly • Practice techniques for generating actionable insights • Keep your retrospectives fresh and interesting • Perform retrospectives that address the entire system, not just your team • Focus on your "better future" with solution-focused retrospectives • Learn how to avoid typical pitfalls when facilitating retrospectives • Lead retrospectives across multiple distributed teams • Use retrospectives to support large-scale change
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Developer Testing - Building Quality Into Software

by Alexander Tarlinder

37,09€ + 10% CARD

  How do successful agile teams deliver bug-free, maintainable software—iteration after iteration? The answer is: By seamlessly combining development and testing. On such teams, the developers write testable code that enables them to verify it using various types of automated tests. This approach keeps regressions at bay and prevents "testing crunches"—which otherwise may occur near the end of an iteration—from ever happening. Writing testable code, however, is often difficult, because it requires knowledge and skills that cut across multiple disciplines. In Developer Testing, leading test expert and mentor Alexander Tarlinder presents concise, focused guidance for making new and legacy code far more testable. Tarlinder helps you answer questions like: When have I tested this enough? How many tests do I need to write? What should my tests verify? You’ll learn how to design for testability and utilize techniques like refactoring, dependency breaking, unit testing, data-driven testing, and test-driven development to achieve the highest possible confidence in your software. Through practical examples in Java, C#, Groovy, and Ruby, you’ll discover what works—and what doesn’t. You can quickly begin using Tarlinder’s technology-agnostic insights with most languages and toolsets while not getting buried in specialist details. The author helps you adapt your current programming style for testability, make a testing mindset "second nature," improve your code, and enrich your day-to-day experience as a software professional. With this guide, you will <ul> <li>Understand the discipline and vocabulary of testing from the developer’s standpoint</li> <li>Base developer tests on well-established testing techniques and best practices</li> <li>Recognize code constructs that impact testability</li> <li>Effectively name, organize, and execute unit tests</li> <li>Master the essentials of classic and "mockist-style" TDD</li> <li>Leverage test doubles with or without mocking frameworks</li> <li>Capture the benefits of programming by contract, even without runtime support for contracts</li> <li>Take control of dependencies between classes, components, layers, and tiers</li> <li>Handle combinatorial explosions of test cases, or scenarios requiring many similar tests</li> <li>Manage code duplication when it can’t be eliminated</li> <li>Actively maintain and improve your test suites</li> <li>Perform more advanced tests at the integration, system, and end-to-end levels</li> <li>Develop an understanding for how the organizational context influences quality assurance</li> <li>Establish well-balanced and effective testing strategies suitable for agile teams</li> </ul>
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Developer Testing - Building Quality Into Software

by Alexander Tarlinder

37,09€ + 10% CARD

  How do successful agile teams deliver bug-free, maintainable software—iteration after iteration? The answer is: By seamlessly combining development and testing. On such teams, the developers write testable code that enables them to verify it using various types of automated tests. This approach keeps regressions at bay and prevents "testing crunches"—which otherwise may occur near the end of an iteration—from ever happening. Writing testable code, however, is often difficult, because it requires knowledge and skills that cut across multiple disciplines. In Developer Testing, leading test expert and mentor Alexander Tarlinder presents concise, focused guidance for making new and legacy code far more testable. Tarlinder helps you answer questions like: When have I tested this enough? How many tests do I need to write? What should my tests verify? You’ll learn how to design for testability and utilize techniques like refactoring, dependency breaking, unit testing, data-driven testing, and test-driven development to achieve the highest possible confidence in your software. Through practical examples in Java, C#, Groovy, and Ruby, you’ll discover what works—and what doesn’t. You can quickly begin using Tarlinder’s technology-agnostic insights with most languages and toolsets while not getting buried in specialist details. The author helps you adapt your current programming style for testability, make a testing mindset "second nature," improve your code, and enrich your day-to-day experience as a software professional. With this guide, you will <ul> <li>Understand the discipline and vocabulary of testing from the developer’s standpoint</li> <li>Base developer tests on well-established testing techniques and best practices</li> <li>Recognize code constructs that impact testability</li> <li>Effectively name, organize, and execute unit tests</li> <li>Master the essentials of classic and "mockist-style" TDD</li> <li>Leverage test doubles with or without mocking frameworks</li> <li>Capture the benefits of programming by contract, even without runtime support for contracts</li> <li>Take control of dependencies between classes, components, layers, and tiers</li> <li>Handle combinatorial explosions of test cases, or scenarios requiring many similar tests</li> <li>Manage code duplication when it can’t be eliminated</li> <li>Actively maintain and improve your test suites</li> <li>Perform more advanced tests at the integration, system, and end-to-end levels</li> <li>Develop an understanding for how the organizational context influences quality assurance</li> <li>Establish well-balanced and effective testing strategies suitable for agile teams</li> </ul>
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Large-Scale Scrum - More With Less

by Bas Vodde e Craig Larman

30,91€ + 10% CARD

  The Go-To Resource for Large-Scale Organizations to Be Agile Rather than asking, "How can we do agile at scale in our big complex organization?" a different and deeper question is, "How can we have the same simple structure that Scrum offers for the organization, and be agile at scale rather than do agile?" This profound insight is at the heart of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum). In Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde have distilled over a decade of experience in large-scale LeSS adoptions towards a simpler organization that delivers more flexibility with less complexity, more value with less waste, and more purpose with less prescription. Targeted to anyone involved in large-scale development, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, offers straight-to-the-point guides for how to be agile at scale, with LeSS. It will clearly guide you to <ul> <li>Adopt LeSS</li> <li>Structure a large development organization for customer value</li> <li>Clarify the role of management and Scrum Master</li> <li>Define what your product is, and why</li> <li>Be a great Product Owner</li> <li>Work with multiple whole-product focused feature teams in one Sprint that produces a shippable product</li> <li>Coordinate and integrate between teams</li> <li>Work with multi-site teams</li> </ul>
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Large-Scale Scrum - More With Less

by Bas Vodde e Craig Larman

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. The Go-To Resource for Large-Scale Organizations to Be Agile Rather than asking, "How can we do agile at scale in our big complex organization?" a different and deeper question is, "How can we have the same simple structure that Scrum offers for the organization, and be agile at scale rather than do agile?" This profound insight is at the heart of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum). In Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde have distilled over a decade of experience in large-scale LeSS adoptions towards a simpler organization that delivers more flexibility with less complexity, more value with less waste, and more purpose with less prescription. Targeted to anyone involved in large-scale development, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, offers straight-to-the-point guides for how to be agile at scale, with LeSS. It will clearly guide you to <ul> <li>Adopt LeSS </li> <li>Structure a large development organization for customer value </li> <li>Clarify the role of management and Scrum Master </li> <li>Define what your product is, and why </li> <li>Be a great Product Owner </li> <li>Work with multiple whole-product focused feature teams in one Sprint that produces a shippable product </li> <li>Coordinate and integrate between teams </li> <li>Work with multi-site teams</li> </ul>
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Scrum Field Guide, The - Agile Advice For Your First Year And Beyond

by Mitch Lacey

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 Thousands of organizations are adopting Scrum to transform the way they execute complex projects, in software and beyond. This guide will give you the skills and confidence needed to deploy Scrum, resulting in high-performing teams and satisfied customers. Drawing on years of hands-on experience helping companies succeed, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Mitch Lacey helps you overcome the major challenges of Scrum adoption and the deeper issues that emerge later. Extensively revised to reflect improved Scrum practices and tools, this edition adds an all-new section of tips from the field. Lacey covers many new topics, including immersive interviewing, collaborative estimation, and deepening business alignment. In 35 engaging chapters, you’ll learn how to build support and maximize value across your company. Now part of the renowned Mike Cohn Signature Series on agile development, this pragmatic guide addresses everything from establishing roles and priorities to determining team velocity, setting sprint length, and conducting customer reviews. Coverage includes <ul> <li>Bringing teams and new team members on board</li> <li>Creating a workable definition of "done"</li> <li>Planning for short-term wins, and removing impediments to success</li> <li>Balancing predictability and adaptability in release planning</li> <li>Running productive daily scrums</li> <li>Fixing failing sprints</li> <li>Accurately costing projects, and measuring the value they deliver</li> <li>Managing risks in dynamic Scrum projects</li> <li>Prioritizing and estimating backlogs</li> <li>Working with distributed and offshore teams</li> <li>Institutionalizing improvements, and extending agility throughout the organization</li> </ul> Packed with real-world examples straight from Lacey’s experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone transitioning to Scrum, seeking to improve their early results, or trying to get back on track.
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Agile Testing Collection, The

by Janet Gregory e Lisa Crispin

86,11€ + 10% CARD

 A Comprehensive Collection of Agile Testing Best Practices: Two Definitive Guides from Leading Pioneers Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin haven’t just pioneered agile testing, they have also written two of the field’s most valuable guidebooks. Now, you can get both guides in one indispensable eBook collection: today’s must-have resource for all agile testers, teams, managers, and customers. Combining comprehensive best practices and wisdom contained in these two titles, The Agile Testing Collection will help you adapt agile testing to your environment, systematically improve your skills and processes, and strengthen engagement across your entire development team. The first title, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, defines the agile testing discipline and roles, and helps you choose, organize, and use the tools that will help you the most. Writing from the tester’s viewpoint, Gregory and Crispin chronicle an entire agile software development iteration, and identify and explain seven key success factors of agile testing. The second title, More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, addresses crucial emerging issues, shares evolved practices, and covers key issues that delivery teams want to learn more about. It offers powerful new insights into continuous improvement, scaling agile testing across teams and the enterprise, overcoming pitfalls of automation, testing in regulated environments, integrating DevOps practices, and testing mobile/embedded and business intelligence systems. The Agile Testing Collection will help you do all this and much more. <ul> <li>Customize agile testing processes to your needs, and successfully transition to them</li> <li>Organize agile teams, clarify roles, hire new testers, and quickly bring them up to speed</li> <li>Engage testers in agile development, and help agile team members improve their testing skills</li> <li>Use tests and collaborate with business experts to plan features and guide development </li> <li>Design automated tests for superior reliability and easier maintenance</li> <li>Plan "just enough," balancing small increments with larger feature sets and the entire system</li> <li>Test to identify and mitigate risks, and prevent future defects</li> <li>Perform exploratory testing using personas, tours, and test charters with session- and thread-based techniques</li> <li>Help testers, developers, and operations experts collaborate on shortening feedback cycles with continuous integration and delivery</li> </ul> Both guides in this collection are thoroughly grounded in the authors’ extensive experience, and supported by examples from actual projects. Now, with both books integrated into a single, easily searchable, and cross-linked eBook, you can learn from their experience even more easily.
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More Agile Testing - Learning Journeys For The Whole Team

by Janet Gregory e Lisa Crispin

50,34€ + 10% CARD

 Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin pioneered the agile testing discipline with their previous work, Agile Testing. Now, in More Agile Testing, they reflect on all they’ve learned since. They address crucial emerging issues, share evolved agile practices, and cover key issues agile testers have asked to learn more about. Packed with new examples from real teams, this insightful guide offers detailed information about adapting agile testing for your environment; learning from experience and continually improving your test processes; scaling agile testing across teams; and overcoming the pitfalls of automated testing. You’ll find brand-new coverage of agile testing for the enterprise, distributed teams, mobile/embedded systems, regulated environments, data warehouse/BI systems, and DevOps practices. You’ll come away understanding • How to clarify testing activities within the team • Ways to collaborate with business experts to identify valuable features and deliver the right capabilities • How to design automated tests for superior reliability and easier maintenance • How agile team members can improve and expand their testing skills • How to plan "just enough," balancing small increments with larger feature sets and the entire system • How to use testing to identify and mitigate risks associated with your current agile processes and to prevent defects • How to address challenges within your product or organizational context • How to perform exploratory testing using "personas" and "tours" • Exploratory testing approaches that engage the whole team, using test charters with session- and thread-based techniques • How to bring new agile testers up to speed quickly-without overwhelming them The eBook edition of More Agile Testing also is available as part of a two-eBook collection, The Agile Testing Collection (9780134190624).
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