Risk to Reason
Risk to Reason
Managing Project Risk with Agile
About the Book
Agile: pragmatic tools for managing risk in projects
With Agile now the de facto approach for software development, it is essential to understand how we can use Agile approaches and tools to manage and mitigate risk.
Worldwide it has become clear that software projects have high rates of failure and even when ostensibly successful often don't deliver the value that was promised at project inception.
When we talk to organisations about the benefits of Agile software development, all too often we get the response that the current priority - Big Project X - is too important to fail and that Agile is too risky.
In this book we will look at:
- the Agile Risk Management Model
- the four different kinds of risk faced by software development projects
- how we can use the Agile Risk Management Model to manage risk.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Managing software development risk with Agile
- Agile: pragmatic tools for managing risk in projects
- The 4 risks common to most software projects
- Managing risk in software development projects using Agile
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Reducing risk with prioritisation
- What is the problem?
- What is prioritisation?
- Why is prioritisation important?
- Prioritisation evaluation
- Practical tools for prioritisation
- How does prioritisation reduce risk?
- Summary
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Case Study: IntuitionHQ iPad application
- The project
- The goal
- Getting started
- The power of the inspect and adapt cycle
- What had happened?
- Conclusion
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Reducing risk by increasing transparency
- What is the problem?
- What is transparency?
- Why is transparency important?
- Transparency evaluation
- Practical tools for increasing transparency
- How does increased transparency reduce risk?
- Summary
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Case study: Smells, meteors and upgrades board
- The project
- The problem
- Experiment to find a solution
- Why a whiteboard?
- What impact did the System Board have?
- How did the experiment progress?
- Conclusion
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Reducing Work In Progress to reduce risk
- What is the problem?
- What does limiting Work In Progress mean?
- Why is limiting Work In Progress important?
- Work In Progress evaluation
- Practical tools for limiting Work In Progress
- Constrain global WIP by applying local WIP limits
- How does limiting Work In Progress reduce risk?
- Summary
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Conclusion
- The tyranny of wishful thinking - the greatest risk of all
- Next steps
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About the author
- Nathan Donaldson
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