Integrating Agile Development In The Real World (Programming Series)

Agile development represents a significant and strategic shift in how some industry pros are addressing the age-old "crisis" in software quality and delivery. This crisis is characterized by slipped schedules, ballooning budgets, and myriad failed and canceled budgets. Agile development emphasizes individuals, interaction, collaboration, quick response to change, and working software more than the traditional methods of processes, tools, documentation, and hard fast contracts and plans. Integrating AgileDevelopment in the Real World provides developers and managers with specific and implementable ways to infuse these agile processes into everyday software development projects. It transcends many of the self-imposed boundaries of agile development by addressing the use of agile practices in a fixed cost setting, synthesis of agile processes and a waterfall development environment, and the integration of traditional project management tools with agile ones. The book begins with an...