Agile: An Executive Guide gives you the bottom-line information that you need to harness the business benefits of Agile within your organization.
All too often, IT solutions are plagued by budget overruns, missed deadlines, low-quality outputs, and dissatisfied users. Agile methods are proven, common-sense approaches for substantially increasing the relevance, quality, flexibility, and bottom-line business value of your software solutions.
Agile methodologies such as Scrum, DSDM, FDD, Lean, XP, and Kanban are proven approaches for applying the finite resources of an organization to deliver high business-value software solutions on time and within allocated budgets.
These methodologies protect organizations from wasting their IT budgets by replacing large upfront financial commitments with incremental investment based on the ongoing business value of the delivered software. They encourage ongoing collaboration with key stakeholders, empower staff to regularly deliver fully functional and fully tested capabilities, and ensure that the IT solutions delivered are responsive to ongoing organizational and market changes.
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At the heart of Agile methods are ten core business benefits that enable organizations to maximize their IT investments, including better risk management, ongoing control of budget expenditure, better alignment with business requirements, and substantially higher quality IT solutions. Agile: An Executive Guide details each of these benefits from a strategic senior management perspective and identifies which of the most popular Agile methods do (and do not) deliver these benefits.
Agile: An Executive Guide provides you with tools to assess your organizational culture, structure, and dynamic in order to determine whether Agile methods are suitable to your specific needs. Plus, it provides you with the tools to select those Agile methods that are the best fit for your organization and your projects.
Agile: An Executive Guide is full of practical advice, including detailed guidelines to help you choose the right kick-off point for Agile within your organization, avoid common traps, monitor and measure your investment, and broaden the use of Agile methods into other areas of your organization. It includes step-by-step guidelines, interactive tools, and targeted questionnaires to help you and your staff successfully implement these methods.
Agile: An Executive Guide describes Agile methods in clear business language written specifically for professionals. It will help you make realistic business-driven decisions on whether Agile methods are appropriate for your organization, whether you are looking to reduce your IT overheads, provide better software solutions to your clients, or have more control over your IT expenditures. This guide provides practical, proven ways to introduce, incorporate, and leverage Agile methods to maximize your business returns.