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Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile2009,
Agile

Dean describes team practices that scale to the enterprise, including structuring agile teams, mastering the iteration, concurrent testing and continuous integration. Dean also describes intentionally emergent architectures, lean requirements at scale, coordinating releases with the agile release train, agile training and rollout strategies and measuring business performance.

Book Excerpt: Scaling Software Agility

Topics
Introducing Agile,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Methodologies,
Scaling Agile,
Agile,
Programming

"But does Agile scale?" Emerging stories and case studies indicate that it certainly does. InfoQ brings you two excerpts from Dean Leffingwell's book "Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises". Chapter 1 presents how Agile methods respond to the need for competitive advantage, and Chapter 2 revisits "Why the Waterfall Model Doesn’t Work".