Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum [Paperback]

Craig Larman (Author), Bas Vodde (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321636406 | ISBN-13: 978-0321636409 | Publication Date: February 5, 2010 | Edition: 1

Lean and Agile Development for Large-Scale Products: Key Practices for Sustainable Competitive Success

 

Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. Drawing on their long experience leading and guiding lean and agile adoptions for large, multisite, and offshore product development, internationally recognized consultant and best-selling author Craig Larman and former leader of the agile transformation at Nokia Networks Bas Vodde share the key action tools needed for success.

 

Coverage includes

• Frameworks for large-scale Scrum for multihundred-person product groups
• Testing and building quality in
• Product management and the end of the “contract game” between business and R&D
• Envisioning a large release, and planning for multiteam development
• Low-quality legacy code: why it’s created, and how to stop it
• Continuous integration in a large multisite context
• Agile architecting
• Multisite or offshore development
• Contracts and outsourced development

 In a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, the practices inspired by lean thinking and agile principles are ever-more relevant. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development will help people realize a lean enterprise—and deliver on the significant benefits of agility.

 

In addition to the action tools in this text, see the companion book Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrumfor complementary foundation tools.

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About the Author

Craig Larman is a management and product development consultant in enterprise-level adoption and use of lean development, agile principles and practices, and large scale Scrum in large, multisite, and offshore development. He served as chief scientist at Valtech, an international consulting and agile offshore outsourcing company. His books include the best-sellers Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and Applying UML and Patterns, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 2005).

 

Bas Vodde works as an independent product development consultant and large scale Scrum coach. For several years he led the agile and Scrum enterprise-wide adoption initiative at Nokia Networks. He is passionate about improving product development, and an avid student of organizational, team management, and product development research, and remains an active developer. Bas is the coauthor (with Craig) of the companion book Scaling Lean & Agile Development (Addison-Wesley, 2009).

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (February 5, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321636406
• ISBN-13: 978-0321636409
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book but, August 30, 2010

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This review is from: Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum (Paperback)

The content is rich and covers almost everything about scrum.
This is a very good book on agile development, unfortunately, inappropriately named.

1) Readers who bought this book, probably are interested in the additional stuff on multisite and offshore, and not the everything about Agile Development. Thus, this book can be, should be a lot thinner.

2) The book contains lots of good examples. Unfortunately, I have to jump around the book to read them. Thus, the organization of the content can be improved.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum, August 17, 2010

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This review is from: Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum (Paperback)

I am disappointed with this book. The main reason is the book continuously references the author's first book, so if you don't own the first book there are lots of holes in the reading material. I would not recommend this book.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overall a Must-Read for Agile Development Leaders, June 23, 2010

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This review is from: Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum (Paperback)

I was blown away by "Scaling Lean & Agile Development". Some time has passed since then but I still feel that it's one of the most important development books I've read. That book alluded to the companion volume, "Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development", and as you can imagine I awaited its publication eagerly. It came out in February - I've worked my way through it now. It's most definitely a worthy successor.

The first book presents theoretical and philosophical underpinnings for agile and lean development. The second book presents a survey of practices relevant to all aspects of the process of developing software at scale, presented by two guys who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table.

The above was taken from a longer review on the Rally Agile blog - you can see the rest of it there ([...] and then follow the links for the agile blog).