Mario E. Moreira

Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams

Balancing Sustainability and Speed

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Agile is a blossoming field in the technology and software development industry. When using Agile correctly, it allows you to move fast and efficiently, helping you to evolve your business needs in short iterations, allowing continuous change until the needs are transformed into a working product. CM provides the smooth road and controls needed to move and maintain such a fast pace.

Most professionals find the alignment of Configuration Management (CM) for Agile a challenge, however Adaptive CM for Agile doesn't mean throwing out the CM principles of identification, control, audit and report. Instead it means that CM should be adapted to allow the lean nature of Agile. The question is how do we do this? Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams provides insightful concepts and concrete guidance on tailoring CM for Agile methods while maintaining CM principles and allowing minimal structure needed for Agile projects to continue to run fast.

Aimed at all levels of professionals in the Agile, Configuration Management, Project Management and Product Management field., this book will provide:
Introductory level information on both CM and Agile
Extensive and insightful information on how CM and Agile can work together.
Intermediate to advanced level information on how to adapt CM to best support projects using the Agile methodology.

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Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams provides very tangible approaches on how Configuration Management with its practices and infrastructure can be adapted and managed in order to directly benefit agile teams. Written by Mario E. Moreira, author of Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap , columnist for CM Crossroads online community and writer for the Agile Journal , this unique book provides concrete guidance on tailoring CM for Agile projects without sacrificing the principles of Configuration Management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14574663000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 190mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780470746639
• ISBN-10: 0470746637
• Artikelnr.: 26879312

Autorenporträt

Mario Moreira has been working in the configuration management (CM) field since 1987, and the agile field since 1999. He's a certified ScrumMaster and author of Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap published by Wiley in 2004. Mario is also columnist/writer for CM Crossroads, online community and resource for configuration management with 40 articles written to date ranging from topics on CM, Agile requirements engineering to release management. He has led various agile initiatives with his employer Fidelity Investments as well as leading an agile coaching forum, he is an experienced conference and webinar speaker.

Inhaltsangabe

Publisher's Acknowledgements. Preface. Acknowledgements. About the Author.
Contributor Biography. 1 Introduction: Racing with Confidence. 1.1 Focus of
this Book. 1.2 Who should Use this Book. 1.3 Navigation through this Book.
1.4 Value of this Book. 2 CMPrimer. 2.1 Brief History of CM. 2.2 CM Values.
2.3 CM Practices. 2.4 Benefits of CM. 2.5 CM Roles. 2.6 CM Mindset. 2.7
Relationship of CM to Culture, Methods, & Governance. 2.8 CM Resource
Guide. 3 Agile Primer. 3.1 Brief History of Agile. 3.2 Agile Values
(a.k.a., Manifesto). 3.3 Agile Methods. 3.4 Benefits of Agile. 3.5 Agile
Personality Types. 3.6 Agile Roles. 3.7 Agile Mindset. 3.8 Moving to an
Agile Culture. 3.9 Agile Resource Guide. 4 How CM and Agile Values Work
Together. 4.1 Aligning Agile and CM Mindsets. 4.2 Supporting Agile and CM
Values without Sacrifice. 4.3 Value of Retrospective to CM. 4.4 Agile
Perspective of CM Practices. 5 Approaching Infrastructure for Agile. 5.1
Guiding Principles for Approaching Infrastructure. 5.2 Considerations for
Approaching Infrastructure. 5.3 Infrastructure Envisioning. 5.4
Infrastructure Refactoring. 5.5 Owning on Premises or Renting in the
Clouds. 6 Approaching the CM Implementation for Agile. 6.1 CM Envisioning.
6.2 CM Refactoring. 6.3 Automate, Automate, Automate for Agile. 7 Adapting
CM Practices for Agile. 7.1 Adapting to Continuous Integration and Build.
7.2 Adapting CM Planning. 7.3 Adapting to Support Refactoring. 7.4 Adapting
to Support Pair Programming. 7.5 Adapting to Support Test Driven
Development (TDD). 7.6 Adapting to Support Agile Distributed Teams. 7.7
Adapting Change Control, Traceability, and Baselines. 7.8 Adapting CM
Audit. 7.9 Adapting Problem Management. 7.10 Adapting CM Report and Review.
8 CM Tool as a Strategic Agile Partner. 8.1 CM Tool Support for Software
Development. 8.2 The Agile Practices that Impact a CM Tool. 8.3 Evaluating
Your Situation. 8.4 CM Tool Features that Facilitate Agile Development. 8.5
Integration with Your Agile Ecosystem. 8.6 Conclusion. 9 Evaluating Tools
Suited for Agile. 9.1 Looking for Tools out there and in here. 9.2 Levels
of Technology Evaluation. 9.3 Perform a Technology Evaluation. 10 Using CM
Standards and Frameworks to Support Agile. 10.1 Importance of CM. 10.2
Compliance and IT Governance Requirements. 10.3 Communicating Your Approach
to Senior Management. 10.4 Which Standards Should Be Considered? 10.5
Configuration Management Functions that are most Essential. 10.6 How do
Frameworks such as Cobit, ITIL, CMMI, and RUP support Agile? 10.7 Achieving
Synergy through Harmonization and Tailoring. 10.8 Conclusion. Bibliography.
Index.