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SOFTWARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT Disciplined Agile Delivery Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines. 2012. IBM Press and Pearson Education (http://www.ibmpressbooks.com). 513 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-281013-5 ISBN-10: 0-13-281013-1
CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Quality Management; Project Management; Software Metrics & Analysis
After all of the hundreds of books on agile software development, here is one book that provides a candid perspective on some challenges with agile adoption, benefits realized, and its ability to scale. Ambler and Lines bring their strong background in agile practices, the Rational Unified Process (RUP), and large-scale delivery to make a strong case for reasonable discipline so teams can sustain initial successes and enthusiasm. The authors also dismiss the popular notion (at least in some circles) that teams embracing agile development and delivery can ignore the need for some discipline.
I particularly applaud the authors for demonstrating that a comprehensive structure and framework is important to sustain and scale agile delivery. I have been in meetings where some people assume any mention of a framework and discipline is anti-agile.
This book is organized into five parts, each of which addresses the following broad themes:
1. Introduction to disciplined agile delivery (DAD)
2. People first
3. Initiating a disciplined agile delivery project
4. Building a consumable solution incrementally
5. Releasing the solution
6. Disciplined agile delivery in the enterprise
The last section...