Value-Driven Agile

High Performance Playbook

eBookA concise, practical and comprehensive guide to start or enhance an Agile development process through Lean-Agile values and principles. With so much academic information on Agile and Scrum available, this eBook is intended to “cut to the chase” and be a quick read and reference to help software development professionals start or enhance their Agile software development approach.  The eBook describes a complete working framework so teams can maximize their performance potential – based on Agile Scrum and borrowing concepts from SAFe 5.0, with fresh, real-life perspectives and techniques on Agile principles in practice. 

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Table Of Contents

  • Preface
    • Maximizing Productivity
  • Core 4 Attributes of High Performance
    • Reliability
    • Speed
    • Quality
    • Customer Focus
  • Lean-Agile Principles
  • Agile Manifesto
    • Agile Manifesto Values
    • Individuals and interactions
    • Working software
    • Customer Collaboration
    • Responsive to Change
    • 12 Agile Principles
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
    • House of Lean
      • Leadership
      • Value
      • People
      • Flow
      • Innovation
      • Relentless Improvement
    • SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
  • Summary of Values and Principles
    • Value Team Over The Individual
    • Iterate vs. Conquer
    • Design for the Now, Not the Later
    • Finding Organizational Balance
  • Composing Work Items
    • Defining User Stories (Work Items)
    • Work Item Hierarchy
    • Framework for Creating Work Items
      • Three Tiers of Grooming
      • Three C’s
      • INVEST
      • Horizontal Slicing
      • Vertical Slicing
    • Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
      • What’s Behind the Curtain?
  • Technical Debt
  • Handling Bugs
  • Process Guidelines
    • The 3-5-3 of Scrum
    • Defining the Rules and Roles
    • Team Roles
      • Product Owner
      • Scrum Master
      • Developers/Engineers
      • Stakeholders
      • Dev Manager
      • Coach
    • Size and Structure of Teams
    • Sprints
    • Team Ceremonies
      • Daily Stand Up
      • Grooming Sessions
      • Sizing Sessions
      • Sprint Planning
      • Tasking
      • Sprint Reviews
      • Retrospective Meetings
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
    • Sizing Framework
    • Keeping Retrospectives on Track

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