Agile Software Development: Incremental-Based Work Benefits Developers and Customers

by Anthony Baah

Overview

The most widely adopted Agile methods in software development have been shown to: improve time to mission value; reduce project risk; reduce cost; improve visibility and better adapt to changing needs. For many organizations that are considering Agile approaches, the need to understanding the absence of detailed requirements as in the waterfall methodology and the presence of user stories and acceptance criteria development is overemphasized. In Agile Software Development, Anthony Baah shows clear evidence of the benefits for using the agile software development concept and the Quality Assurance involvement in the transformation. • PART I: Overview: Transitioning into Agile Transformation  Chapter 1 Practical Experience Gained in Agile Software ……  Chapter 2 Agile Software Development Approach Transformation  Chapter 3 Choosing Between Agile Methodologies  Chapter 4 Agile Tips  Chapter 5 Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Process • PART II: Agile Methodology: QA Team Involvement • Chapter 6 QA team’s involvement in the agile transformation • Chapter 7 Case Study: Application Testing • Chapter 8 Reasons for Many Production Defects • Chapter 9 Case Study 2: The Acceptance Criteria Issues Initiative • Chapter 10 Accomplishment This book will help you clearly understand the benefits obtained from implementing Agile. You will find proven solutions you can apply to manage changing priorities, improved project visibility, improved team morale, incremental delivery, faster time to market, better team and business collaboration, software quality enhancement, development process simplification, risk and cost reduction, software maintainability and extensibility enhancement. Whether you’re a developer, tester, QA analyst, scrum master, IT project or program manager, executive, product owner, IT/Business instructor or student, you will find this book very useful.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483566238
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	05/31/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	100
File size:	763 KB

About the Author

Anthony Baah, a 16-plus year software engineering Principal Consultant, has spent most of his career helping end user services division, brought professional expertise to support software teams for providing outstanding services to the end user community by providing expert knowledge, professionalism, and a commitment to excellence for change. As a renowned methodologist and principal information systems engineer, he brought technical expertise for development processes for the user stories earned value management. He supported certification life cycle and agile (scrum) processes; compliance data management and review, provided technical expertise in the use of an enterprise service bus (ESB) as a software architecture model for designing and implementing communication between mutually interacting one application with other software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As QA Analyst, he has provided technical and quality assurance assessment of configuration and change records for software and infrastructure and agile practices employed by software development teams. He speaks fluently English, Russian, French and currently learning Spanish and Portuguese.

Table of Contents

Foreword i

Preface iii

Acknowledgement v

Dedication vii

About the Author ix

Part I Transitioning into Agile Transformation 1

Chapter 1 Beginning with Waterfall-like approach 3

Chapter 2 Agile software development approach transformation 7

Chapter 3 Choosing between Agile methodologies 13

Chapter 4 Agile Tips 23

Chapter 5 Independent verification and validation (IV&V) process 31

Part II Agile Methodology: QA Team Involvement 35

Chapter 6 Quality Assurance team's role in agile transformation 37

Chapter 7 Case Study 1: Application testing 43

Chapter 8 Reasons for many production defects 47

Chapter 9 Case Study 2: The acceptance criteria issues initiative 49

Chapter 10 Accomplishment 65

Conclusion 71

Bibliography 73

Index 75