Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Agile Software Development with Scrum

by Mike Beedle, Ken Schwaber

eXtreme Programming is an ideal many software shops would love to reach, but with the constant pressures to produce software quickly, they cannot actually implement it. The Agile software process allows a company to implement eXtreme Programming quickly and immediately-and to begin producing software incrementally in as little as 30 days! Implementing eXtreme Programming is easier said than done. The process can... (more)

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

by Mike Cohn

The concept of user stories has its roots as one of the main tenets of Extreme Programming. In simple terms, user stories represent an effective means of gathering requirements from the customer (roughly akin to use cases). This book describes user stories and demonstrates how they can be used to properly plan, manage, and test software development projects. The book highlights both successful and unsuccessful... (more)

Enterprise Scrum

by Ken Schwaber

Get the practical guidance you need to apply Scrum enterprise wide--straight from a leader and innovator in the agile process movement. Agile development methods, such as Scrum, have been shown to produce improvements in speed, quality, and cost. However, the practices within Scrum, such as self-managing teams, are often so different from the norm at most enterprises and cause an organizational reaction.... (more)