The Little Book On Agile
The Little Book On Agile
How we got here and what came before
About the Book
If you're here, you've probably been told that you need to "learn Scrum", and you need to learn quickly.
Well, we've got some bad news for you - this ain't that kind of book.
To truly understand what Scrum is actually about and the problems it's trying to solve, it's vital to know about the history of software development and how we got to this "agile" thing everyone is talking about.
About the Author
Team Discounts
Get a team discount on this book!
Table of Contents
- The Little Book On Agile
- Preface
- Chapter 1: How Did We Get Here?
- Scientific Management
- Fordism
- Waterfall
- Working in a Waterfall World
- The Feedback Problem
- Chapter 2: Let’s Shorten the Feedback Loop
- What’s a feedback loop?
- The rise of iterative methodologies
- Rapid Application Development (RAD)
- So what was the problem?
- Chapter 3 : We Are Uncovering Better Ways Of Developing Software
- All change
- eXtreme Programming (XP)
- The road to Agile
- Chapter 4: The Light Weight Process Summit
- That’s nice. What does it mean?
- The 12 Principles
- So what the hell is Agile?
- What’s meant by “value”?
- Chapter 5: TL;DR, what’s the difference?
- The differences - an overview
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Agile Frameworks
- The Agile Umbrella
- The One True Way (TM)
- Which one is “best”?
- Chapter 7: Where did Scrum Come From?
- The Genesis of Scrum
- 1995 - “The SCRUM Development Process”
- Wait - Scrum was developed before the Agile Manifesto?
- So is Scrum Agile?
- Chapter 8: Let’s Talk Scrum
- Scrum is simple
- At A Glance
- Theory
- Scrum Team
- Events
- Artifacts
- Looking Back
- Dark Scrum
- Chapter 9: Not Scrum
- Estimating
- Burndown Charts
- User Stories
- Scrum Board
- Sprint Zero, Hardening Sprint, Design Sprint
- Technical Debt
- Chapter 10: Scrumfall - The Rise of Corporate Agile
- SAFe
- LeSS
- Scrum@Scale
- Nexus
- Chapter 11: The DevOps
- The What Now?
- Mistake #1 - DevOps is about tooling
- Mistake #2 - DevOps is about operations
- Mistake #3 - DevOps is a job title
- So What is DevOps
- Chapter 12: Okay, I Give Up! What Should I Use?
- Further Reading
The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.
You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?
See full terms...
Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earnedover $14 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
