{"product_id":"agile-adoption-patterns-book-amr-elssamadisy-9780321514523","title":"Agile Adoption Patterns","description":"Proven Patterns and Techniques for Succeeding with Agile in Your Organization     Agile methods promise to help you create software that delivers far more business value—and do it faster, at lower cost, and with less pain. However, many organizations struggle with implementation and leveraging these methods to their full benefit. In this book, Amr Elssamadisy identifies the powerful lessons that have been learned about successfully moving to agile and distills them into 30 proven agile adoption patterns.      Elssamadisy walks you through the process of defining your optimal agile adoption strategy with case studies and hands-on exercises that illuminate the key points. He systematically examines the most common obstacles to agile implementation, identifying proven solutions. You’ll learn where to start, how to choose the best agile practices for your business and technical environment, and how to adopt agility incrementally, building on steadily growing success.      Next, he presents the definitive agile adoption pattern reference: all the information you need to implement the strategy that you’ve already defined. Utilizing the classic pattern format, he explains each agile solution in its proper context, revealing why it works—and how to make the most of it. The pattern reference prepares you to        Understand the core drivers, principles, and values associated with agile success  Tightly focus development on delivering business value–and recognize the “smells” of a project headed off track  Gain rapid, effective feedback practices: iteration, kickoff and stand-up meetings, demos, retrospectives, and much more  Foster team development: co-location, self-organization, cross-functional roles, and how to bring the customer aboard  Facilitate technical tasks and processes: testing, refactoring, continuous integration, simple design, collective code ownership, and pair programming  Act as an effective coach, learning to engage the community and promote learning  Integrate “clusters” of agile practices that work exceptionally well together     Agile Adoption Patterns will help you whether you’re planning your first agile project, trying to improve your next project, or evangelizing agility throughout your organization. This actionable advice is designed to work with any agile method, from XP and Scrum to Crystal Clear and Lean. The practical insights will make you more effective in any agile project role: as leader, developer, architect, or customer.        Foreword xxiii \u0026amp; xxvi  Preface xxvii  Acknowledgments xxxiii  About the Author xxxvii     Part 1: Thoughts about Software Development 1  Chapter 1: Learning Is the Bottleneck 3  Chapter 2: Personal Agility for Potent Agile Adoption 13     Part 2: Crafting an Agile Adoption Strategy 21  Chapter 3: Business Value 23  Chapter 4: Smells 29  Chapter 5: Adopting Agile Practices 37     Part 3: The Pattern Catalog 53  Chapter 6: The Patterns of Agile Practice Adoption 55  Chapter 7: Goal 61  Chapter 8: Cycle 65     Part 3.1: Feedback Practices 69  Chapter 9: Iteration 71  Chapter 10: Kickoff Meeting 77  Chapter 11: Backlog 81  Chapter 12: Planning Poker 87  Chapter 13: Stand-Up Meeting 93  Chapter 14: Done State 99  Chapter 15: Demo 103  Chapter 16: Retrospective 109  Chapter 17: Release Often 115  Chapter 18: Co-Located Team 119  Chapter 19: Self-Organizing Team 125  Chapter 20: Cross-Functional Team 131  Chapter 21: Customer Part of Team 137  Chapter 22: Evocative Document 143  Chapter 23: User Story 149  Chapter 24: Use Case 153  Chapter 25: Information Radiator 157     Part 3.2: Technical Practices 161  Chapter 26: Automated Developer Tests 163  Chapter 27: Test-Last Development 173  Chapter 28: Test-First Development 177  Chapter 29: Refactoring 183  Chapter 30: Continuous Integration 189  Chapter 31: Simple Design 197  Chapter 32: Functional Tests 203   Chapter 33: Collective Code Ownership 219  Chapter 34: Pair Programming 223     Part 3.3: Supporting Practices 229  Chapter 35: Coach 231  Chapter 36: Engage the Community 235  Chapter 37: Reading Circle 239  Chapter 38: Workshop 245  Chapter 39: Classroom Training 249     Part 3.4: The Clusters 255  Chapter 40: Agile Iteration 257  Chapter 41: Communication Cluster 263  Chapter 42: Evolutionary Design 269  Chapter 43: Test-Driven Development 277  Chapter 44: Test-Driven Requirements 285     Part 4: Case Studies 293  Chapter 45: BabyCenter 295   Chapter 46: Company X 305     Part 5: Appendices 321  Appendix A: Pattern to Business Value Mappings 323  Appendix B: Pattern-to-Smell Mappings 325  Appendix C: Getting the Most from Agile Practice Patterns 327   Appendix D: Further Reading 331     Bibliography 333     Index 339","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49512358773009,"sku":"GOR011814328","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49967018901777,"sku":"GOR007219117","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50233495191825,"sku":"CIN0321514521G","price":7.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0321514521.jpg?v=1751229026","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/agile-adoption-patterns-book-amr-elssamadisy-9780321514523","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}