Breaking the Addiction to Process will give you a clear understanding of the way Agile works and how it can improve your business practices. It explains how Agile will help you to improve your relationships with your customers, to work more efficiently with your colleagues and to develop more streamlined and successful working practices, saving you time and money. This practical twelve-step guide is clearly written and offers simple solutions to age-old problems. Agile is a flexible, adaptable system and this book will help you to implement it for maximum impact and success for your business. About the author Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas is a member of the Nokia Agile Community and the London Agile Community. She is a documentation manager at Nokia, having begun her career in advertising and marketing before moving into writing in IT.
Charles Araujo is the founder and CEO of the IT Transformation Institute, which is dedicated to helping IT leaders transform their teams into customer-focused, value-driven learning organizations. He is a recognized leader and expert in the areas of IT transformation and IT organizational change. He serves on the boards of itSMF USA and the Executive Next Practices Institute. He has been quoted in or published in magazines, blogs, and websites including ZDNet, IT Business Edge, ITSM Portal, TechRepublic, itSMF USA's Forum, HDI SupportWorld and USA Today. He is presently at work on two new books and speaks frequently on a wide range of subjects related to his vision of the future of IT.
Show moreBreaking the Addiction to Process will give you a clear understanding of the way Agile works and how it can improve your business practices. It explains how Agile will help you to improve your relationships with your customers, to work more efficiently with your colleagues and to develop more streamlined and successful working practices, saving you time and money. This practical twelve-step guide is clearly written and offers simple solutions to age-old problems. Agile is a flexible, adaptable system and this book will help you to implement it for maximum impact and success for your business. About the author Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas is a member of the Nokia Agile Community and the London Agile Community. She is a documentation manager at Nokia, having begun her career in advertising and marketing before moving into writing in IT.
Charles Araujo is the founder and CEO of the IT Transformation Institute, which is dedicated to helping IT leaders transform their teams into customer-focused, value-driven learning organizations. He is a recognized leader and expert in the areas of IT transformation and IT organizational change. He serves on the boards of itSMF USA and the Executive Next Practices Institute. He has been quoted in or published in magazines, blogs, and websites including ZDNet, IT Business Edge, ITSM Portal, TechRepublic, itSMF USA's Forum, HDI SupportWorld and USA Today. He is presently at work on two new books and speaks frequently on a wide range of subjects related to his vision of the future of IT.
Show more1: Satisfy the Customer Through Early and Continuous Delivery
2: Welcome Changing Requirements
3: Deliver Working Software Frequently
4: Business People and Developers Work Together Daily
5: Build Projects Around Motivated People
6: Convey Information via Face-to-Face Conversation
7: Working Software is the Primary Measure of Progress
8: Maintain a Constant Pace Indefinitely
9: Give Continuous Attention to Technical Excellence
10: Simplify - Maximise the Amount of Work Not Done
11: Teams Self-Organise
12: Teams Hold Retrospectives and Tune Their Behaviours
Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas is a creative communication and documentation specialist with 14 years’ experience developing and maintaining user-information products. She is a member of the Nokia Agile Community and the London Agile Community. She works as a documentation manager at Nokia, having begun her career in advertising and marketing before moving into writing in IT.
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