Being Agile : Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile

__Being Agile__is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement. __Agile__ is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many content themselves with half-baked approximations such as Fragile (fragile Agile), ScrumBut (Scrum but not the practices), and Scrum Fall (mini-waterfalls in the sprints). Moreira shows maturing early adopters how to bridge the chasm between going through the motions of __doing__ Agile and genuinely __being__ Agile. After a high-level synopsis of Agile’s values and principles, methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Leam, VFQ, and XP), and roles, Moreira plunges into the nitty-gritty of how to apply the __ready, implement, coach, and hone__ (RICH) deployment model to all phases of a project in such a way as to embody and inculcate agile values and principles at the team level and promote agile transformation across your organization's culture. What you’ll learnAgile professionals, project managers, and middle, senior, and executive management in software engineering and development divisions and enterprises who read this book will learn how to: * Evaluate team candidates for traits, skills, behavior, and attitudes diagnostic of an Agile mindset * Set up Agile planning tools and framework * Map stakeholder engagement * Validate ongoing application of Agile best practices * Adapt Scrum teams and techniques for various needs and conditions Who this book is for The primary readership for this book comprises Agile professionals, product managers, and middle, senior, and executive management in software engineering and development divisions and enterprises. The secondary readership includes business analysts agile and software configuration managers. Table of Contents1. Getting Started 2. Crossing the Agile Chasm 3. Business Benefits of Being Agile 4. Importance of Customer Engagement 5. Importance of Employee Engagement 6. Foundations of Agile 7. Ready, Implement, Coach, Hone (RICH) Deployment Framework 8. Motivations for Moving to an Agile Culture 9. Achieving an Agile Mindset 10. Evaluating Executive Support and Team Willingness 11. Treating Agile as a Transformation Project 12. Adapting to Agile Roles and Responsibilities 13. Evaluating Agile, Engineering, and Team Capability 14. Establishing Agile Measures of Success 15. Constructing a Scalable Agile Framework 16. Establishing an Agile Education Program 17. Creating a Customer Validation Vision 18. Writing User Stories and Grooming the Backlog 19. Working with Story Points, Velocity, and Burndowns 20. Constructing Done Criteria to Promote Quality 21. Considering Agile Tools within an ALM Framework 22. Implementing, Coaching, and Honing Activities 23. Adapting Governance and Performance Reviews 24. Three Case Studies in Adopting Agile Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement. Agile is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many content themselves with half-baked approximations such as Fragile (fragile Agile), ScrumBut (Scrum but not the practices), and Scrum Fall (mini-waterfalls in the sprints). Moreira shows maturing early adopters how to bridge the chasm between going through the motions of doing Agile and genuinelybeing Agile. After a high-level synopsis of Agiles values and principles, methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Leam, VFQ, and XP), and roles, Moreira plunges into the nitty-gritty of how to apply the ready, implement, coach, and hone (RICH) deployment model to all phases of a project in such a way as to embody and inculcate agile values and principles at the team level and promote agile transformation across your organization's culture.;Chapter 1. Getting started -- chapter 2. Crossing the agile chasm -- chapter 3. Business benefits of being agile -- chapter 4. Importance of customer engagement -- chapter 5. Importance of employee engagement -- chapter 6. Foundations of agile -- chapter 7. Ready, implement, coach, and hone (RICH) deployment model -- chapter 8. Motivations for moving to an agile culture -- Chapter 9. Achieving an agile mindset -- chapter 10. Evaluating executive support and team willingness -- chapter 11. Treating agile as a transformation project -- chapter 12. Adapting to agile roles and responsibilities -- chapter 13. Evaluating agile, engineering, and team capability -- chapter 14. Establishing agile measures of success -- chapter 15. Constructing a scalable agile framework -- chapter 16. Establishing an agile education program -- chapter 17. Creating a customer validation vision -- chapter 18. Writing user stories and grooming the backlog -- chapter 19. Working with story points, velocity, and burndowns -- chapter 20. Constructing done criteria to promote quality -- chapter 21. Considering agile tools within an ALM framework -- chapter 22. Implementing, coaching, and honing activities -- chapter 23. Adapting governance and performance reviews -- chapter 24. Three case studies in adopting agile. Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement. Agile is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many content themselves with half-baked approximations such as Fragile (fragile Agile), ScrumBut (Scrum but not the practices), and Scrum Fall (mini-waterfalls in the sprints). Moreira shows maturing early adopters how to bridge the chasm between going through the motions of doing Agile and genuinely being Agile. After a high-level synopsis of Agile’s values and principles, methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Leam, VFQ, and XP), and roles, Moreira plunges into the nitty-gritty of how to apply the ready, implement, coach, and hone (RICH) deployment model to all phases of a project in such a way as to embody and inculcate agile values and principles at the team level and promote agile transformation across your organization's culture.