Agile Answered

In software development, the agile paradigm has become synonymous with creativity and business value - but that doesn't mean agile is easy to implement.

In "Agile Answered," two leading practitioners offer concrete, dependable and practical answers that can help any software professional or stakeholder adopt agile more successfully, and achieve better results with it.

They bring together specific, useful solutions for practitioners across diverse skill levels and corporate responsibilities, paying special attention to Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and lean-agile.

This single source for actionable solutions is organized by levels of difficulty: * Walk: Answers to general agile questions, including: creating user stories, scheduling, running sprint planning sessions and daily stand-ups, and defining roles * Jog: Answers to harder agile questions, including: defining metrics, conducting retrospectives, integrating quality analysts into agile teams, tracking velocity, and managing change * Run: Answers to the toughest agile questions, including: running agile in SDLC/Waterfall environments; extending/distributing agile enterprise-wide;overcoming myths Each section brings together related topics, and offers discussions that explore the issues in real-world context.

Informative and fun, this book introduces topics with quotes from figures ranging from Yogi Berra and J.P.

Getty, and spices its insights with examples from fields far beyond technology.