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Book Description

Lean and Agile Development for Large-Scale Products: Key Practices for Sustainable Competitive Success

Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. Drawing on their long experience leading and guiding lean and agile adoptions for large, multisite, and offshore product development, internationally recognized consultant and best-selling author Craig Larman and former leader of the agile transformation at Nokia Networks Bas Vodde share the key action tools needed for success.

Coverage includes

  • Frameworks for large-scale Scrum for multihundred-person product groups

  • Testing and building quality in

  • Product management and the end of the “contract game” between business and R&D

  • Envisioning a large release, and planning for multiteam development

  • Low-quality legacy code: why it’s created, and how to stop it

  • Continuous integration in a large multisite context

  • Agile architecting

  • Multisite or offshore development

  • Contracts and outsourced development

  •  In a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, the practices inspired by lean thinking and agile principles are ever-more relevant. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development will help people realize a lean enterprise—and deliver on the significant benefits of agility.

    In addition to the action tools in this text, see the companion book Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrumfor complementary foundation tools.

    Table of Contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Table of Contents
    4. Preface
    5. Chapter 1. Introduction
    6. Chapter 2. Large-Scale Scrum
    7. Action Tools
      1. Chapter 3. Test
      2. Chapter 4. Product Management
      3. Chapter 5. Planning
      4. Chapter 6. Coordination
      5. Chapter 7. Requirements & PBIs
      6. Chapter 8. Design & Architecture
      7. Chapter 9. Legacy Code
      8. Chapter 10. Continuous Integration
      9. Chapter 11. Inspect & Adapt
      10. Chapter 12. Multisite
      11. Chapter 13. Offshore
      12. Chapter 14. Contracts
    8. Miscellany
      1. Chapter 15. Feature Team Primer
    9. Recommended Readings
    10. Bibliography
    11. List of Experiments
    12. Index
    13. Inside Front Cover
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