Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0131424602 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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David is currently Director of Emerging Technology with 4thpass Inc., a Motorola subsidiary based in Seattle, WA.. DAVID J. ANDERSON has been in the software business for more than 20 years, with experience as a developer and manager in start-up environments and in three of the world's largest compani
A Management Book that Developers Should Read Too A Customer This book is essential reading for IT managers, but senior developers should read it too. While some things in this book will make engineers say "I know that, but just didn't know how to say it", other things are real eye openers. Engineers will find some of the management theory to be dry reading, but it is relevant.If you ask engineers who have used both traditional (i.e. waterfall) . Simple and easy to apply My professor required this book for my software project planning course. Being from a science background, I've never been very interested in business-related subject matter. However, in this book, Anderson provides simple models and strategies that seem simple and easy to apply. I've even had a somewhat hostile view of management in the past. This book has made me re-evaluate my attitu. IF Earl Beede Abraham Lincoln once asked something like, "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?" The answer is four. "Just because you call a tail a leg doesn't make it so." Just because you want to call some development practice "Agile" doesn't make it so. In this book, David Anderson makes a case for calling Theory of Constraints the underlying definition of Agile software devel
This text explains how agile software development methods produce better business results. It aims to help managers combat the biggest business complaints about software (for example, late, doesn't deliver as promised, over-budget and so forth).
Relf, Chief Marketing Officer, Sprint PCS"A tremendous contribution to the literature in the field. However, agile development must scale in scope and discipline to be acceptable in the boardrooms of the Fortune 1000. This should be required reading for all development teams going forward." --John F. From the Back Cover"This book does a good job of describing the methods employed at Sprintpcs over 250 people practicing Feature Driven Development and reporting their progress to me at the monthly operations review." --Scott B. Yuzdepski, VP & GM, Openwave SystemsA breakthrough approach to managing agile software development, Agile methods might ju