Master IBM’s Breakthrough DAD Process Framework for Succeeding with Agile in Large, Complex, Mission-Critical IT Projects It is widely recognized that moving from traditional to agile approaches to build software solutions is a critical source of competitive advantage. Mainstream agile approaches that are indeed suitable for small projects require significant tailoring for larger, complex enterprise projects. In Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines introduce IBM’s breakthrough Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework, which describes how to do this tailoring. DAD applies a more disciplined approach to agile development by acknowledging and dealing with the realities and complexities of a portfolio of interdependent program initiatives. Ambler and Lines show how to extend Scrum with supplementary agile and lean strategies from Agile Modeling (AM), Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Unified Process (UP), and other proven methods to provide a hybrid approach that is adaptable to your organization’s unique needs. They candidly describe what practices work best, why they work, what the trade-offs are, and when to consider alternatives, all within the context of your situation. Disciplined Agile Delivery addresses agile practices across the entire lifecycle, from requirements, architecture, and development to delivery and governance. The authors show how these best-practice techniques fit together in an end-to-end process for successfully delivering large, complex systems--from project initiation through delivery. Coverage includes <ul>
<li>Scaling agile for mission-critical enterprise endeavors</li> <li>Avoiding mistakes that drive poorly run agile projects to chaos</li> <li>Effectively initiating an agile project</li> <li>Transitioning as an individual to agile</li> <li>Incrementally building consumable solutions</li> <li>Deploying agile solutions into complex production environments</li> <li>Leveraging DevOps, architecture, and other enterprise disciplines</li> <li>Adapting your governance strategy for agile projects</li> </ul> Based on facts, research, and extensive experience, this book will be an indispensable resource for every enterprise software leader and practitioner--whether they’re seeking to optimize their existing agile/Scrum process or improve the agility of an iterative process.

Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise (IBM Press)

Computers & Technology

Lines, Mark

Ambler, Scott

Programming

Ibm Press

Refactoring has proven its value in a wide range of development projects–helping software professionals improve system designs, maintainability, extensibility, and performance. Now, for the first time, leading agile methodologist Scott Ambler and renowned consultant Pramodkumar Sadalage introduce powerful refactoring techniques specifically designed for database systems. Ambler and Sadalage demonstrate how small changes to table structures, data, stored procedures, and triggers can significantly enhance virtually any database design–without changing semantics. You’ll learn how to evolve database schemas in step with source code–and become far more effective in projects relying on iterative, agile methodologies. This comprehensive guide and reference helps you overcome the practical obstacles to refactoring real-world databases by covering every fundamental concept underlying database refactoring. Using start-to-finish examples, the authors walk you through refactoring simple standalone database applications as well as sophisticated multi-application scenarios. You’ll master every task involved in refactoring database schemas, and discover best practices for deploying refactorings in even the most complex production environments. The second half of this book systematically covers five major categories of database refactorings. You’ll learn how to use refactoring to enhance database structure, data quality, and referential integrity; and how to refactor both architectures and methods. This book provides an extensive set of examples built with Oracle and Java and easily adaptable for other languages, such as C#, C++, or VB.NET, and other databases, such as DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and Sybase. Using this book’s techniques and examples, you can reduce waste, rework, risk, and cost–and build database systems capable of evolving smoothly, far into the future.

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

Sadalage, Pramod

Networking & Cloud Computing

Addison-Wesley Professional

The first book to cover Agile Modeling, a new modeling technique created specifically for XP projects eXtreme Programming (XP) has created a buzz in the software development community-much like Design Patterns did several years ago. Although XP presents a methodology for faster software development, many developers find that XP does not allow for modeling time, which is critical to ensure that a project meets its proposed requirements. They have also found that standard modeling techniques that use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) often do not work with this methodology. In this innovative book, Software Development columnist Scott Ambler presents Agile Modeling (AM)-a technique that he created for modeling XP projects using pieces of the UML and Rational's Unified Process (RUP). Ambler clearly explains AM, and shows readers how to incorporate AM, UML, and RUP into their development projects with the help of numerous case studies integrated throughout the book. 
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<li>AM was created by the author for modeling XP projects-an element lacking in the original XP design</li> <li>The XP community and its creator have embraced AM, which should give this book strong market acceptance</li> </ul>
Companion Web site at www.agilemodeling.com features updates, links to XP and AM resources, and ongoing case studies about agile modeling.

Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

wiley

<ul>
<li>Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniques</li> <li>Agile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) technology together and as a result must overcome the impedance mismatch</li> <li>The author covers techniques for mapping objects to RDBs and for implementing concurrency control, referential integrity, shared business logic, security access control, reports, and XML</li> <li>An agile foundation describes fundamental skills that all agile software developers require, particularly Agile DBAs</li> <li>Includes object modeling, UML data modeling, data normalization, class normalization, and how to deal with legacy databases</li> <li>Scott W. Ambler is author of Agile Modeling (0471202827), a contributing editor with Software Development (www.sdmagazine.com), and a featured speaker at software conferences worldwide</li> </ul>

Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer

The Unified Process Construction Phase: Best Practices in Implementing the UP

Is the Unified Process the be all and end all standard for developing object-oriented component-based software? This book is the second in a four volume series that presents a critical review of the Unified Process. The authors present a survey of the alt

Computer Science

CRC-Press

The Unified Process Elaboration Phase: Best Practices in Implementing the UP

Is the Unified Process the be all and end all standard for developing object-oriented component-based software? Scott Ambler doesn't think so. This book is one in a four-volume series that presents a critical review of the Unified Process -- designed to p

<div>Hundreds of organizations around the world have already benefited from Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). Disciplined Agile (DA) is the only comprehensive tool kit available for guidance on building high-performance agile teams and optimizing your way of working (WoW). As a hybrid of all the leading agile and lean approaches, it provides hundreds of strategies to help you make better decisions within your agile teams, balancing self-organization with the realities and constraints of your unique enterprise context. The highlights of this handbook include: greatly improved and enhanced strategies with a revised set of goal diagrams based upon learnings from applying DAD in the field;&nbsp;a wealth of ideas for experimenting with agile and lean techniques while providing specific guidance and trade-offs for those "it depends" questions; and a perfect study guide for Disciplined Agile certification. Why "fail fast" (as our industry likes to recommend) when you can learn quickly on your journey to high performance? With this handbook, you can make better decisions based upon proven, context-based strategies, leading to earlier success and better outcomes.</div>

Choose your WoW: A Disciplined Agile Delivery Handbook for Optimizing Your Way of Working

Project Management Institute

<div>How does a small development team in an established enterprise apply Disciplined Agile (DA) strategies to successfully improve their agility and provide real value to their stakeholders? Find out how in Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery-- Second Edition. This guide to Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) provides the foundation from which to scale agile and lean software development strategies, enabling teams to succeed in the unique situations they face--remembering that context counts. Starting with a Scrum-based approach, we'll show you how the team learns from their experiences and evolves into a lean life cycle, then to a continuous delivery life cycle within a DevOps environment. We begin with an overview of DAD and work through a case study that describes a team's learnings through several releases of a mission-critical solution. You'll find out how DAD: gives you the flexibility to use various approaches while covering gaps not addressed by mainstream agile practices;&nbsp;describes proven strategies that show how programming, design, testing, architecture, analysis, deployment, and many more aspects of solution delivery fit together in a streamlined whole; and shows you how to turn the agile software development dial all the way up!</div>

Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery - Second Edition

Business Culture

About the Author\nScott W. Ambler and Mark Lines are cocreators of PMI Disciplined Agile and authors of several books about agile approaches. They have decades of experience implementing agile and lean approaches at organizations around the world and are both sought-after keynote speakers.\nThis book:\n• Provides a foundation for enterprise agility, value streams, and a disciplined approach to DevOps; 
• Is a pragmatic application of agile, lean, and traditional techniques for your enterprise-class environment; 
• Overviews a strategy for teams to evolve a fit-for-purpose, flexible WoW that still supports a consistent governance strategy for leadership; 
• Makes a perfect study guide for Disciplined Agile certification.

Choose your WoW - Second Edition: A Disciplined Agile Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working

Choose your WoW - Second Edition (FRENCH): A Disciplined Agile Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working

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