Agile: An Executive Guide: Real results from IT budgets
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This guide will help you make realistic decisions on whether Agile methodologies are appropriate for your organisation; it also suggests ways of introducing, incorporating and leveraging these methodologies.
Jamie Lynn Cooke
Jamie Lynn Cooke has 27 years of experience as a senior business analyst and solutions consultant, working with more than 130 public and private sector organisations throughout Australia, Canada, and the United States. Her background includes business case development; strategic and operational reviews; business process modeling, mapping, and optimization; product and project management on small to multi-million-dollar initiatives; quality management; risk analysis and mitigation; developing/conducting training courses; workshop delivery; and refining e-business strategies. She is the author of Agile Principles Unleashed, a book written specifically to explain Agile in non-technical business terms to managers and executives outside of the IT industry; Agile: An Executive Guide: Real results from IT budgets, which gives IT executives the tools and strategies needed for bottom-line business decisions on using Agile methodologies; Everything you want to know about Agile: How to get Agile results in a less-than-Agile organisation, which gives readers strategies for aligning Agile work within the reporting, budgeting, staffing, and governance constraints of their organisation; and PRINCE2 Agile™ An Implementation Pocket Guide: Step-by-step advice for every project type, a hands-on guide for successfully delivering projects within the PRINCE2 Agile™ framework.
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CHAPTER 1: AN EXECUTIVE BRIEF ON AGILE²
What is Agile?
‘Agile’ is a collective term for methodologies (and practices) that have emerged over the past two decades to increase the relevance, flexibility and business value of software solutions. These methodologies are specifically intended to address the problems that have historically plagued software development activities in the IT industry, including budget overruns, missed deadlines, low quality outputs, and dissatisfied users.
Agile methodologies are common-sense approaches for applying the finite resources of an organisation to deliver high business-value software solutions.
Although there are a broad range of Agile methodologies in the IT industry – from software development and project delivery approaches to strategies for software maintenance – all of these methodologies share the same basic