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o formal education and certification courses for the selected method(s).

o internal training sessions to walk through and demonstrate these methods.

Proper understanding of these principles and practices will significantly reduce the potential for the misapplication of Agile methods, which, if it occurs, could eliminate the possibility of wider organizational support altogether.

As the adoption of Agile methods grows and matures in your organization, you can further refine your use of Agile by enlisting qualified consultants, attending group training courses and reading industry resources, such as those listed in More Information on Agile.

One final thought: Every time staff members work on an Agile project, the organization is likely to grow more confident in these approaches. Management’s initial gut reaction to resist empowering the team is replaced by the proven knowledge that this is an extremely effective way to achieve successful outcomes. Stakeholders’ inclination to want everything delivered at once is replaced by an appreciation for prioritizing outputs by the business value that they can bring to the organization.

That is why it is so valuable for people who have been through the process before to assist the new areas in the organization who are trialling Agile methods. These experienced Agile resources can act as advisers and facilitators in the process, ensuring that practices are followed correctly, and allaying concerns that staff, managers or stakeholders might have as they move away from

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their traditional ways of working. Furthermore, once these areas have been through a couple of Agile initiatives, they can begin to take on the adviser role for others in the organization. This not only creates a larger (and stronger) network of Agile practitioners within the organization, it decentralizes the responsibility for any one area to be involved in each Agile initiative.

The bottom line is that your organization can achieve real productivity gains using Agile methods. The challenge is to implement Agile in a way that aligns with the specific needs, constraints and dynamics of your organization.

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MORE INFORMATION ON AGILE

General information on Agile

Agile Alliance: www.agilealliance.com AgileCanberra Forum: http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/agilecanberra/ Agile Connection: www.agileconnection.com Agile Kiwi – Practical Agile Software Development: www.agilekiwi.com Agile Manifesto: www.agilemanifesto.org AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com: www.agilesoftwaredevelopment.com Alistair Cockburn: http://alistair.cockburn.us/ Everything You Want to Know About Agile, Jamie Lynn Cooke, IT Governance Publishing (2012): www.itgovernanceusa.com/shop/p-549-everything- youwant-to-know-about-Agile.aspx

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The Power of the Agile Business Analyst: 30 surprising ways a business analyst can add value to your Agile development team, Jamie Lynn Cooke, IT Governance Publishing (2013): www.itgovernanceusa.com/shop/p-1379-the- power-of-the-agile-business-analyst.aspx

Specific Agile methods

Overview

A Practical Guide to Seven Agile methods: www.devx.com/architect/Article/32761 (Part 1) www.devx.com/architect/Article/32836 (Part 2)

Scrum

ScrumAlliance: www.scrumalliance.org Glossary of Scrum Terms, Szalvay V, Scrum Alliance, Inc. (2007): www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2007/ march/glossary-of-scrum-terms Scrum and Agile Presentations by Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software, Cohn M (various dates): www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations

DSDM

What is DSDM? www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/dsdm.aspx DSDM Explained: www.agilexp.com/presentations/DSDMexplained.p df

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FDD™

Feature-Driven Development: An Overview www.tarrani.net/mike/docs/fddoverview.pdf Feature Driven Development (FDD) and Agile Modelling www.agilemodeling.com/essays/fdd.htm

Lean

Lean Primer, Larman C & Vodde B (2009): www.leanprimer.com/downloads/lean_primer.pdf Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point: www.poppendieck.com/pdfs/LLSD_intro.pdf

XP™

Extreme Programming: a gentle introduction: www.extremeprogramming.org

RUP®

What is the Rational Unified Process®?: www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/co ntent/RationalEdge/jan01/WhatIstheRationalUnifi edProcessJan01.pdf Agile Modelling and the Rational Unified Process (RUP): www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileModelingRU P.htm

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AUP

The Agile Unified Process (AUP): www.ambysoft.com/unifiedprocess/agileUP.html

Kanban

Kanban (overview) www.crisp.se/kanban

Scrumban

Scrum-ban: http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum- ban/ Scrumban - Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development, Ladas C, Modus Cooperandi Press (2009) Kanban and Scrum – making the most of both, Kniberg H and Skarin M (2010): www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum- minibook Scrumban: Taking Scrum Outside Its Comfort Zone www.slideshare.net/yyeret/scrumban-taking- scrum-outside-its-comfort-zone

Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®)

Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®): www.scaledagileframework.com

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Introducing the Scaled Agile Framework® www.cio.com/article/2936942/enterprise- software/introducing-the-scaled-agile- framework.html

Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) Framework

Introduction to LeSS http://less.works/less/framework/introduction.html

Nexus

Nexus Framework www.scrum.org/Resources/The-Nexus-Guide

Scrum of Scrums

Agile Can Scale: Inventing and Reinventing SCRUM in Five Companies www.controlchaos.com/storage/scrum- articles/Sutherland%20200111%20proof.pdf

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

The Disciplined Agile Framework www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/agility-at- scale/disciplined-agile-2/

Crystal

Crystal methods http://alistair.cockburn.us/Crystal+methodologies

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Industry research on Agile

9th Annual State of Agile Development Survey, VersionOne: http://info.versionone.com/state-of-agile- development-survey-ninth.html

The state of application development in enterprises and SMBs: business data services North America and Europe, Stone J, Database and Network Journal (1 April 2007): www.thefreelibrary.com/The+state+of+applicatio n+development+in+enterprises+and+SMBs:...- a0162832944

Selected Agile case studies

Agile Coaching in British Telecom, Meadows L & Hanly S (2006): www.agilejournal.com/articles/columns/column- articles/144-agile-coaching-in-british-telecom Rolling out Agile in a Large Enterprise, Benefield G, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (2008): www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/H ICSS.2008.382

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Information on TQM and Kaizen

TQM. Total Quality Management. An Integrated Approach to Quality and Continuous Improvement, Kotelnikov V (last updated January 27, 2011) www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/im_tqm_m ain.html KAIZEN – The Japanese Strategy for Continuous Improvement, Kotelnikov V (last updated November 09, 2010): www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/mgmt_kai zen_main.html

Information on Lean manufacturing

Common Questions Organizations Ask About Lean Manufacturing, Keberdle CF, Lean Solutions Group, LLC (2008): www.leansolutionsgroup.com/images/Common_Q uestions_About_Lean_Mfg.pdf

Lean Principles, Kilpatrick J, Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership (2003): http://www.inmatech.nl/res/pdfs/leanprinciples.pdf

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