Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Preface xv
1 Learning Agile 1
What Is Agile? 2
Who Should Read This Book 7
Our Goals for This Book 8
Getting Agile into Your Brain by Any Means Necessary 8
How This Book Is Structured 12
2 Understanding Agile Values 15
A Team Lead, Architect, and Project Manager Walk into a Bar… 16
No Silver Bullet 19
Agile to the Rescue! (Right?) 22
A Fractured Perspective 26
The Agile Manifesto Helps Teams See the Purpose Behind Each Practice 33
Understanding the Elephant 39
Where to Start with a New Methodology 45
3 The Agile Principles 51
The 12 Principles of Agile Software 52
The Customer Is Always Right…Right? 53
Delivering the Project 55
Communicating and Working Together 64
Project Execution-Moving the Project Along 74
Constantly Improving the Project and the Team 78
The Agile Project: Bringing All the Principles Together 81
4 Scrum and Self-Organizing Teams 87
The Rules of Scrum 89
Act I I Can Haz Scrum? 92
Everyone on a Scrum Team Owns the Project 94
Act II Status Updates Are for Social Networks! 109
The Whole Team Uses the Daily Scrum 110
Act III Sprinting into a Wall 119
Sprints, Planning, and Retrospectives 120
Act IV Dog Catches Car 129
5 Scrum Planning and Collective Commitment 137
Act V Not Quite Expecting the Unexpected 138
User Stories, Velocity, and Generally Accepted Scrum Practices 140
Act VI Victory Lap 159
Scrum Values Revisited 160
6 XP and Embracing Change 175
Act I Going into Overtime 176
The Primary Practices of XP 178
Act II The Game Plan Changed, but Were Still Losing 187
The XP Values Help the Team Change Their Mindset 189
An Effective Mindset Starts with the XP Values 195
Act III The Momentum Shifts 200
Understanding the XP Principles Helps You Embrace Change 201
7 XP, Simplicity, and Incremental Design 219
Act IV Going into Overtime, Part 2: Second Overtime 220
Code and Design 222
Make Code and Design Decisions at the Last Responsible Moment 237
Incremental Design and the Holistic XP Practices 245
Act V Final Score 260
8 Lean, Eliminating Waste, and Seeing the Whole 269
Lean Thinking 270
Act I Just One More Thing… 279
Creating Heroes and Magical Thinking 280
Eliminate Waste 283
Gain a Deeper Understanding of the Product 288
Deliver As Fast As Possible 295
9 Kanban, Flow, and Constantly Improving 315
Act II Playing Catch-Up 317
The Principles of Kanban 318
Improving Your Process with Kanban 325
Measure and Manage Flow 339
Emergent Behavior with Kanban 358
10 The Agile Coach 369
Act III Just One More Thing (Again?!)… 371
Coaches Understand Why People Don't Always Want to Change 371
Coaches Understand How People Learn 376
Coaches Understand What Makes a Methodology Work 380
The Principles of Coaching 382
Index 387
