The Art of Agile Practice: A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations (Hardcover)

The Art of Agile Practice: A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations presents a consistent, integrated, and strategic approach to achieving "Agility" in your business. Transcending beyond Agile as a software development method, it covers the gamut of methods in an organization—including business processes, governance standards, project management, quality management, and business analysis—to show you how to use this composite approach to enhance your ability to adapt and respond to evolving business requirements. The book is divided into three parts:

1. Introduces Agility and identifies the challenges facing organizations in terms of development and maintenance approaches
2. Presents Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS) as a carefully constructed combination of process elements and illustrates its application to development, business management, business analysis, project management, and quality
3. Includes two Agile case studies, a comprehensive index, definitions of key acronyms, and appendices with a current list of Agile methods and interview summaries

The book describes relevant metrics for the entire CAMS lifecycle and explains how to embed Agile practices within formal process-maps in projects. Filled with figures, case studies, and tables that illustrate key concepts, the text is ideal for a two- or three-day training course or workshop. It is also suitable for a 13-week education course for higher degree students that includes process discussions and consideration of Agile values at both software and business levels. The chapters are organized to correspond roughly to such lectures with an option to choose from the case study chapters.

《敏捷實踐的藝術：專案和組織的綜合方法》提供了一種一致、整合和戰略性的方法，以實現您企業的「敏捷性」。超越敏捷作為一種軟體開發方法，它涵蓋了組織中的各種方法，包括業務流程、治理標準、專案管理、品質管理和業務分析，以展示如何使用這種綜合方法來增強您適應和應對不斷變化的業務需求的能力。本書分為三個部分：

1. 介紹敏捷性並確定組織在開發和維護方法方面面臨的挑戰。
2. 提出綜合敏捷方法和策略（CAMS），作為一種精心構建的流程元素組合，並說明其在開發、業務管理、業務分析、專案管理和品質方面的應用。
3. 包括兩個敏捷案例研究、一個全面的索引、關鍵縮寫定義和附錄，其中包含當前敏捷方法的列表和訪談摘要。

本書描述了整個CAMS生命周期的相關指標，並解釋了如何在專案的正式流程圖中嵌入敏捷實踐。充滿圖表、案例研究和表格，以說明關鍵概念，本書非常適合為期兩到三天的培訓課程或研討會。它也適合為期13週的高等學位學生教育課程，包括流程討論和在軟體和業務層面上考慮敏捷價值觀。各章節的組織方式大致對應於此類講座，並提供選擇案例研究章節的選項。