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Bringing Stakeholders to Agreement Around the Vision 142 Concluding Thoughts 145 Additional Resources 145 Chapter 8 Identifying the Initial Scope 147 Choosing the Appropriate Level of Initial Detail 149 Choosing the Right Types of Models 153 Choosing a Modeling Strategy 162 Choosing a Work Item Management Strategy 166 Choosing a Strategy for Nonfunctional Requirements 170 Concluding Thoughts 173 Additional Resources 173 Chapter 9 Identifying an Initial Technical Strategy 175 Choosing the Right Level of Detail 178 Choosing the Right Types of Models 182 Choosing a Modeling Strategy 187 Architecture Throughout the Lifecycle 190 Concluding Thoughts 190 Additional Resources 191 Chapter 10 Initial Release Planning 193 Who Does the Planning? 194 Choosing the Right Scope for the Plan 196 Choosing a General Planning Strategy 197 Choosing Cadences 202 Formulating an Initial Schedule 208 Estimating the Cost and Value 218 Identifying Risks 225 Concluding Thoughts 226 Additional Resources 228 Chapter 11 Forming the Work Environment 229 Forming the Team 230 Choosing Your Toolset 231 Organizing Physical Work Environments 238 Organizing Virtual Work Environments 244 Visual Management 246 Adopting Development Guidelines 247 Concluding Thoughts 248 Additional Resources 249 Chapter 12 Case Study: Inception Phase 251 Introducing the AgileGrocers POS Case Study 251 Developing a Shared Vision 254 Requirements Envisioning 262 Creating the Ranked Work Item List of User Stories to Implement the Solution 264 Architecture Envisioning 265 Release Planning 266 Other Inception Phase Activities 268 Alternative Approach to Running Your Inception Phase 269 Concluding the Inception Phase 270 Concluding Thoughts 272 Part 4: Building a Consumable Solution Incrementally Chapter 13 The Construction Phase 273 How the Construction Phase Works 274 The Typical Rhythm of Construction Iterations 281 The Risk-Value Lifecycle 282 When Are You Ready to Deploy? 283 Construction Patterns 284 Construction Anti-Patterns 285 Concluding Thoughts 287 Chapter 14 Initiating a Construction Iteration 289 Why Agile Planning Is Different 290 Iteration Planning 291 Visualizing Your Plan 304 Look-Ahead Planning and Modeling 306 Concluding Thoughts 307 Additional Resources 308 Chapter 15 A Typical Day of Construction 309 Planning Your Team's Work for the Day 311 Collaboratively Building a Consumable Solution 319 Ongoing Activities Throughout the Day 339 ACloser Look at Critical Agile Practices 348 Stabilizing the Day's Work 359 Concluding Thoughts 360 Additional Resources 360 Chapter 16 Concluding a Construction Iteration 363 Demonstrate the Solution to Key Stakeholders 365 Learn from Your Experiences 368 Assess Progress and Adjust Release Plan if Necessary 373 Assess Remaining Risks 375 Deploy Your Current Build 375 Determine Strategy for Moving Forward 376 Concluding Thoughts 380 Additional Resources 382 Chapter 17 Case Study: Construction Phase 383 Continuing Our Scenario with the AgileGrocers POS Case Study 383 Planning the Iteration's Work 387 Subsequent Construction Iterations 407 Other Construction Phase Activities 414 Concluding the Construction Phase Iterations 414 Concluding Thoughts 415 Part 5: Releasing the Solution Chapter 18 The Transition Phase 417 How the Transition Phase Works 418 Planning the Transition Phase 419 Ensuring Your Production Readiness 421 Preparing Your Stakeholders for the Release 423 Deploying the Solution 424 Are Your Stakeholders Delighted? 426 Transition Phase Patterns 427 Transition Phase Anti-Patterns 429 Concluding Thoughts 430 Additional Resources 431 Chapter 19 Case Study: Transition Phase 433 Planning the Phase 434 Collaborating to Deploy the Solution 438 AgileGrocers' Delight 439 Concluding Thoughts 440 Part 6: Disciplined Agile Delivery in the Enterprise Chapter 20 Governing Disciplined Agile Teams 441 What Should Governance Address? 443 Why Is Governance Important? 447 Why Traditional Governance Strategies Won't Work 448 Agile Governance 451 Agile Practices That Enable Governance 455 Fitting in with the Rest of Your IT Organization 460 Measuring Agile Teams 465 Risk Mitigation 479 Concluding Thoughts 480 Additional Resources 480 Chapter 21 Got Discipline? 483 Agile Practices Require Discipline 484 Reducing the Feedback Cycle Requires Discipline 485 Continuous Learning Requires Discipline 487 Incremental Delivery of Consumable Solutions Requires Discipline 490 Being Goal-Driven Requires Discipline 490 Enterprise Awareness Requires Discipline 491 Adopting a Full Lifecycle Requires Discipline 492 Streamlining Inception Requires Discipline 492 Streamlining Transition Requires Discipline 493 Adopting Agile Governance Requires Discipline 493 Moving to Lean Requires Discipline 493 Concluding Thoughts 494 Additional Resources 495 Index 497

themselves in an ever-growing and complex field." --Nick Clare, agile coach/principal consultant, Ivar Jacobson International "Scott and Mark have compiled an objective treatment of a tough topic. Loaded with insights from successful application under game conditions, this book strikes a good balance between progressive agilists looking to accelerate change and conservative organizational managers looking for scalable solutions." --Walker Royce, chief software economist, IBM "Disciplined Agile Delivery, a hybrid and experience-based approach to software delivery, reflects the growing trend toward pragmatism and away from the anti-syncretism that has plagued the software development industry for over 40 years. I commend Scott and Mark for writing this book and showing the leadership necessary to take our profession to the next level." --Mark Kennaley, CTO, Software-Development-Experts.com; author of SDLC 3.0: Beyond a Tacit Understanding of Agile "I've seen 'certified agile' run rampant in an organization and create more severe problems than it solved. Finally, we have a definitive source on how to apply agile pragmatically with discipline to deliver success. Thanks, Scott and Mark." --Carson Holmes, EVP, service delivery, Fourth Medium Consulting, Inc.