Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential

Robert Webber 지음

Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr 2022년 07월 06일 출간

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UNLOCKING AGILE'S MISSED POTENTIAL Agile has not delivered on its promises. The business side expected faster time to market, but they still experience the long delays of bloated releases. Engineers thought they would be given time to build the product right the first time, but they are rushed under pressure to deliver new features within impossible schedules. What went wrong? The culprit is feature-based waterfall release planning perpetuated in a vain attempt to achieve business predictability. Agile didn't address the business need for multi-year financial predictability. The Agile community's answer was the naïve response, "The business needs to be more Agile." Waterfall release planning with fixed schedules undercuts a basic tenet of Agile development &n- the need to adjust content delivered within a timebox to account for evolving requirements and incorporation of feedback. Agile without flexible content is not Agile. This book introduces a novel solution that enables product teams to deliver higher value within shorter cycle times while meeting the predictability needs of the business. Organizations today want product teams that break down walls between product management and engineering to achieve schedule and financial objectives. Until now they haven&'t had a way to implement product teams within the rigid constraints of traditional organizational structures. The Investment planning approach described in this book supports small development increments planned and developed by product teams aligned by common schedule and financial goals. It uses Cost of Delay principles to prioritize work with the highest value and shortest cycle times. Investments provide a vehicle for collaboration and innovation and fulfill the promise of highly motivated self-directed Agile development teams. This book is for engineers, product managers and project managers who want to finally do Agile the way it was envisioned. This b

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Foreword 11 Preface 13 Introduction 16 The Lost Potential of Agile Development 16 Missed Business Expectations 18 A New Approach to Agile Planning 19 Addressing Traditional Software Development Challenges 21 Motivation and Innovation 22 Your Organization 22 Chapter 1: The Persistence of Waterfall Planning 23 Introduction to AccuWiz 23 The New COO 24 Product Management 24 PMO 25 Engineering 25 Customer Perspective 26 Synopsis 26 Summary 27 Chapter 2 &n- Why Agile has Struggled 29 Agile Development Fundamentals 30 The Agile Revolution 30 Scrum 31 Kanban 34 Barriers to Real Agile 35 Schedule Pressure 35 The “Motivation” Factor 37 The Mythical Product Owner 39 Feature Planning 40 Agile Scaling Frameworks 41 Summary 42 Chapter 3: Embracing Software Development Variance 43 The Cone of Uncertainty 43 Software Development Estimation Variance Explained 44 Making and Meeting Feature Commitments 45 How Other Departments Meet Commitments 47 Agile Development Implications 48 Summary 48 Chapter 4: Cost of Delay 49 Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) 50 Cost of Delay Basics 50 Example 52 WSJF Proof 54 CoD and Net Present Value (NPV) Prioritization Methods 56 Non-linear Income Profiles 57 CoD for Non-Linear Cumulative Income Profiles 58 Payback Period CoD Method 58 Third-year Income Slope CoD Method 58 CoD NPV Method 63 CoD Computation Method 64 WSJF and Traditional Finance 66 ROI 66 Investment Rate of Return (IRR) 67 WSJF versus ROI Prioritization 67 Summary 69 Chapter 5: Investment Fundamentals 70 Investments, Initiatives and Programs 70 Inves

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저자(글) Robert Webber

ROBERT WEBBER'S executive experience as VPs of engineering and product management and as a CEO, combined with years of consulting with Fortune 500 companies, provide the broad perspective to create a win-win solution for business and product development that finally achieves the promises of Agile development. Organizations can increase RD ROI by over 25% using existing Agile development capabilities. Break the chains of waterfall planning!