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Author Leybourn, Evan

Title Directing the Agile organisation : a lean approach to business management / Evan Leybourn
Published Ely, U.K. : IT Governance Pub., 2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents Introduction; What is Agile?; Scrum; Kanban; Lean Manufacturing; Feature Driven Development; Test-Driven Development; Extreme Programming; Common misconceptions; Governance and Agile Business Management; Successful Agile Business Management; Relationship to other management styles; OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; Process control loops; Deming's 14 points; Theory of Profound Knowledge; CMMI; Chapter 1: You, the Agile Manager; Management responsibilities; The Agile mindset; Embraces change; Accepts failure; Staff and Customer focused; Changing your mind
Chapter 2: Integrated Customer EngagementWhat is a Customer?; The Customer Representative; Requirements and the Requirements Backlog; Chapter 3: The Structure of an Agile Organisation; Internal departments; Human Resources; ICT Support and administration; Sales and Marketing; Finance and Accounting; Media and Communications; Legal; Research and Development; Production and Operations -- Delivery Teams; Other departments; The Board and executive governance bodies; Pair Work; Team Facilitator; Managing Teams; Managing Distributed Teams; Risk management; Chapter 4: Work, the Agile Way
Phases of deliveryPlanning phase; Do phase; Review phase; Release phase; Kanbans; Quality control; The Daily Stand-up and Agile meetings; Effort estimation; Estimating Requirements; Estimating tasks; Estimation process; Measuring progress; Visualising progress; Burndown Charts; Cumulative Flow Diagrams; Cycle Time Run Charts; Chapter 5: The Agile Budget; Funding models; Quoting for Customers; Fixed cost; Fixed time; Fixed scope; Fixed cost and time; Fixed cost and scope; Fixed time and scope; Fixed cost, time and scope; Chapter 6: Reflection, Retrospectives and Kaizen
Chapter 7: The Shape of Things to ComePre-Agile › Learning Agile; Early Agile › Agile management; Agile practitioners › Continuous improvement; Glossary; Bibliography
Summary Directing the Agile Organisation will be of interest to managers and senior executives who want to improve business processes in order to remain competitive in today's market
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed Sept. 19, 2013)
Subject Business logistics.
Management.
Organizational effectiveness.
management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Project Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
Business logistics
Management
Organizational effectiveness
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849284929
184928492X