| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction; What is Agile?; Scrum; Kanban; Lean Manufacturing; Feature Driven Development; Test-Driven Development; Extreme Programming; Common misconceptions; Governance and Agile Business Management; Successful Agile Business Management; Relationship to other management styles; OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; Process control loops; Deming's 14 points; Theory of Profound Knowledge; CMMI; Chapter 1: You, the Agile Manager; Management responsibilities; The Agile mindset; Embraces change; Accepts failure; Staff and Customer focused; Changing your mind. |
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Chapter 2: Integrated Customer EngagementWhat is a Customer?; The Customer Representative; Requirements and the Requirements Backlog; Chapter 3: The Structure of an Agile Organisation; Internal departments; Human Resources; ICT Support and administration; Sales and Marketing; Finance and Accounting; Media and Communications; Legal; Research and Development; Production and Operations -- Delivery Teams; Other departments; The Board and executive governance bodies; Pair Work; Team Facilitator; Managing Teams; Managing Distributed Teams; Risk management; Chapter 4: Work, the Agile Way. |
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Phases of deliveryPlanning phase; Do phase; Review phase; Release phase; Kanbans; Quality control; The Daily Stand-up and Agile meetings; Effort estimation; Estimating Requirements; Estimating tasks; Estimation process; Measuring progress; Visualising progress; Burndown Charts; Cumulative Flow Diagrams; Cycle Time Run Charts; Chapter 5: The Agile Budget; Funding models; Quoting for Customers; Fixed cost; Fixed time; Fixed scope; Fixed cost and time; Fixed cost and scope; Fixed time and scope; Fixed cost, time and scope; Chapter 6: Reflection, Retrospectives and Kaizen. |
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Chapter 7: The Shape of Things to ComePre-Agile › Learning Agile; Early Agile › Agile management; Agile practitioners › Continuous improvement; Glossary; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Directing the Agile Organisation will be of interest to managers and senior executives who want to improve business processes in order to remain competitive in today's market. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Business logistics.
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Business logistics. |
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Management.
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Management. |
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Organizational effectiveness.
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Organizational effectiveness. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781849284929 (electronic book) |
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184928492X (electronic book) |
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1849284911 |
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9781849284912 |
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