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1. AgileAlliance
- www.agilealliance.org
- Q: Who is the Agile Alliance? .
- The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization that supports individuals and organizations who use agile approaches to develop software. Driven by the simple priorities articulated in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, agile development approaches deliver value to organizations and end users faster and with higher quality. ...
- If you're wondering what agile software development is, start here.
- If you'd like to join 871 other supporters of agile development, become a member.
- The Agile Open conference is the first international Open Space conference on agile software development. ...
- DSDM has often been viewed as being "just common sense", but it is apparent to anyone trying to control agile developments just how uncommon "common sense" can be. ...
- See other books by Agile Alliance members. ...
- Agile Events:.
- The Dublin Agile Seminar, a free event, features two cases, one from global investment bank BNP Paribas and another from Irish SME, 3Q Solutions. ...
- The London Agile Seminar, a free event, will have talks titled "Introduction to Agile Software" and "Distributed Agile Software Development". ...
- Due date for submissions to Agile Business Conference 2005. The focus is on providing the forum for discussing the pragmatic issues that affect the introduction and use of Agile Methods and how we within the Agile Community can ensure the long term viability of Agile approaches. ...
- Presenters from the agile community include Alistair Cockburn and Michael Feathers. ...
- The Agile Open conference is the first international Open Space conference on agile software development. ...
- Agile 2005 is an open forum with sessions for all roles, including executives, managers, programmers and testers. This year we focus on uniting the agile community by merging the Agile Development conference and XP/Agile Universe. ...
2. Agile Holds 2nd Annual Taiwan Customer Day
- www.prnewswire.com
- --> Agile Holds 2nd Annual Taiwan Customer Day Leading PLM Vendor Hosts Forum in Taipei to Discuss Business Strategies and Share Success Stories SAN JOSE, Calif. , March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WHAT: Agile Software Corporation (Nasdaq: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, will host its 2nd Annual Taiwan Customer Day. This half-day forum will feature case studies from Agile customers showcasing their success with Agile 9, and the role that PLM is having in improving operating profitability, research and development cycles, and time-to-market execution in highly competitive industries. WHO: The event will feature two Agile customers. Grace Guo, senior manager of information systems and technology at Inventec Appliances Corporation, will discuss the company's Agile PLM implementation. ... In addition, Lester Liao, general manager of Agile Taiwan, will deliver a high-level overview of the value of adopting PLM, and Chris Farinacci, Agile vice president of international marketing and strategy, will discuss best practices in leveraging PLM in a vertical industry. WHEN/WHERE: Agile's Taiwan Customer Day will take place on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 from 1:30 p. ... agile. ... About Agile Software Corporation Agile Software Corporation helps companies drive profits, accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. With a broad suite of enterprise class PLM solutions, time-to-value focused implementations, and a unique Guaranteed Business Results(SM) program, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. ... , Flextronics International, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Magna Steyr, Siemens, QUALCOMM and ZF are among the over 10,000 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer products, electronics, high tech, industrial products, and life sciences industries that use Agile solutions.
- agile. ...
3. Human Issues of Agile Processes - Position Paper Alastair Handley
- www.coldewey.com
- How than, can we create a situation where by a group of developers can be introduced to an agile process, and grow to embrace this change? The answer includes understanding, education, and communication.
- For developers eager to partake in an agile processes the step is welcome. ... If an agile process is not carefully introduced, some developers may fiercely fight this change, while others will embrace it without fully understanding it. ...
- The paradigm shift that these developers need to make in order to become effective members of an agile team can not be trivialized. ... To successfully introduce an agile process we need to harness, and direct, the enthusiasm of eager converts while tempering the opposition of those that resist change. We need to manage people through the paradigm shift that is required to become an effective member of an agile team. ...
- What are we asking them to give up by working in an agile process? What are they risking? What do they fear? Well, there are many possibilities, consider the following. ... A person can not hide in an agile process and for many, that is a very frightening prospect. ...
- While done with the best intent such comments and behavior indicate that the agile process is not fully understood.
- Whether it is fear, or lack of understanding, the effects of these two states inhibit the introduction of an agile process. ... So the successful introduction on an agile process requires, understanding, education, and communication. ...
4. Cutter Consortium Agile Software Development and Project Management
- www.cutter.com
- Get insight into cutting-edge Agile Methodologies, software development techniques and project management practices directly from their founders. ...
- Research Reports on Agile IT Management.
- Cutter Consortium's Agile Software Development and Project Management practice helps you maximize your use of agile methodologies for better project predictability, greater client satisfaction, increased team productivity, faster time-to-market, reduced defects, and decreased cost overruns.
- This service offers insight and advice on the unique benefits of various agile approaches -- Extreme Programming (XP), Adaptive Software Development, Crystal Light, Lean Development, Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development Method. You discover how iterative development can help you solve your most formidable software development challenges and you learn what agile methods are suitable for what types of projects. ...
- Whether you get a license to the online resource center, a print subscription to the advisory service, or individual research reports from the bookstore, the Agile Software Development and Project Management service helps you employ feature-based delivery for increased customer value. What's more, with workshops and custom consulting from the original creators of the agile methods, you can get guidance on creating a methodology suitable to your needs, tailoring it to your specific projects, and acquiring the speed and flexibility necessary to ensure your enterprise's competitive edge.
- INCLUDED PRODUCTS & SERVICES Agile Software Development and Project Management Resource Center.
- Agile Software Development and Project Management Advisory Service.
- Research Reports on Agile IT Management.
5. Agile Testing
- www.testing.com
- com > Agile Testing .
- Agile Testing.
- Agile Testing.
- As one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, I want to understand how to apply its ideals and principles to software testing. ...
- There's a substantial body of writing about Agile Development (see below). ...
- The Agile Testing mailing list. You can subscribe by sending mail to agile-testing-subscribe@yahoogroups. ...
- The Agile Alliance Library, which has many articles about testing. ...
- "Agile Methods and Agile Testing", by Brian Marick. ...
- "Agile Testing Directions", by Brian Marick. This is a series of postings in a blog largely devoted to agile testing. ...
- Testers on agile projects.
- "Roadmap for Agile Testing 2004", by Brian Marick. ...
- Agile methods in general.
- The Agile Alliance web site: www. ...
- Agile Software Development, by Alistair Cockburn. ...
6. Ideogramic: Agile UML
- www.ideogramic.com
- Agile UML.
- Agile UML.
- Agile development and UML-based development: an apparent contradiction between lightweight and flexible development vs. ... Agile Development.
- The agile development movement tries to address just this for small to medium size projects. At the forefront of this movement, the "Agile Alliance" 1 states as its guiding principles: .
- So how can you follow this manifesto? The following table gives an overview of a set of important methods related to agile development: Method.
- Agile Modeling.
- Agile Modeling stresses modeling throughout the development process by focussing on effective and lightweight modeling techniques. ...
- So how does this compare to the principles of agile development? Not very well, it would seem: .
- Ideogramic UML™: Agile Development and UML Revisited.
- So how compatible is Ideogramic UML™'s gesture-based modeling with agile development? .
- All in all, Ideogramic UML™ is quite compatible with agile development and UML-based development. ...
- 1 The Agile Alliance. Signed by a number of prominent members of the agile community, the Agile Alliance homepage contains a manifesto dedicated to agile software development.
- 5 The Agile Modeling Homepage. ...
7. The Object Primer 3rd Ed: Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) with UML 2
- www.ambysoft.com
- Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2.
- The Object Primer is a straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to agile software development (ASD) using object-oriented (OO) and relational database technologies. It covers the fundamental concepts of ASD, OO, and FLOOT, describing how to take an Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) approach to requirements, analysis, and design techniques applying the diagrams of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2 as well as other leading-edge modeling techniques. ...
- Also overviews the fundamentals of agile software development.
- Chapter 4: Agile Modeling Driven Development (AMDD). This chapter overviews AMDD, an evolutionary approach to development where you create agile models to understand what it is that you’re building before you code it. You’ll discover that your modeling and documentation efforts can in fact be incredibly effective when you’re following an agile approach. ...
- Chapter 10: Agile Architecture. This chapter describes an agile approach to architecture, as well as several modeling techniques that you can apply to explore the high-level design of your system. ...
- This chapter overviews an agile approach to dynamic object design, covering techniques such as UML 2 Sequence Diagrams, UML 2 Communication/Collaboration Diagrams, UML 2 State Machine Diagrams, UML 2 Composite Structure Diagrams, UML 2 Timing Diagrams, and UML 2 Interaction Overview Diagrams. ...
- Chapter 13: Agile Object Programming Techniques. This chapter focuses on techniques for agile programming, including TDD and refactoring. ...
- Chapter 14: Agile Database Development Techniques. ...
- By reading The Object Primer you will gain a solid understanding of agile development concepts and techniques, in particular how to model effectively on an agile project. ...
8. Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for XP and RUP
- www.ambysoft.com
- Agile Modeling.
- Agile Modeling (AM) is a chaordic, practice-based methodology for effective modeling of software-based systems. ...
- Part 1: Introduction to Agile Modeling. ...
- Part 2: Agile Modeling in Practice. ... Advice for organizing modeling work areas, modeling teams, and modeling sessions is provided and an examination of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in light of agile development is presented. ...
- Part 3: Agile Modeling and eXtreme Programing (XP). ...
- Part 4: Agile Modeling and the Unified Process (UP). ...
- This part describes important organizational and management issues pertaining to Agile Modeling (AM). ...
- Part 1: Introduction to Agile Modeling.
- Part 2: Agile Modeling in Practice .
- Chapter 9: Nurturing an Agile Culture .
- Chapter 11: Agile Work Areas .
- Chapter 12: Agile Modeling Teams .
- Chapter 13: Agile Modeling Sessions .
- Chapter 14: Agile Documentation .
- Part 3: Agile Modeling and eXtreme Programming (XP) .
9. Agile Alliance Principles
- www.niwotridge.com
- The Agile Alliance has stated in their manifesto, principles by which a process would be considered agile. These principles provide useful guidelines for evaluating a specific process as to its suitability to be considered agile. ...
- Although many of the principles in the Agile Alliance manifesto sound familiar and appear to be generally logical, they don't state a specific context in which they are to be applied. ...
- Agile Alliance Principles.
- Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
- Agile process contribute to success in these situations. ...
- A close examination of why these requirements are changing is an important risk assessment step in determining if agile process will be successful.
- Agility helps here, but in general, iterative and incremental methods exhibit this as a behavior, including Spiral methods – without the necessary re–labeling of agile. ...
- The definition of the customer is restrictive in many of the agile process methods, especially when building products rather than projects. ...
- Although this is the basis of Agile processes, this is neither unique nor many times practical and in many cases may not even be desirable. ...
- Although working software is an outcome of development, there are other critical deliverables and measures of progress as well that are not addressed by many of the Agile processes. ...
- Agile processes promote sustainable development. ...
- Although a goal, the agile process has little to say on how to achieve this in practice for a specific environment. ...
10. DSDM -- an agile methodology for "rapid" and "right" software development and project management
- www.surgeworks.com
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) is an agile new software development methodology.
- DSDM is an agile new model for developing software products. ...
- It can work with our without other agile methods like Extreme Programming, Adaptive, Crystal, RUP, etc. ...
- The surge model we use, DSDM, is an agile, accelerated way to develop any product, run any project, or develop any organization, against a defined goal with a fixed deadline - no matter how tight the timeframe.
11. Welcome to XP 2004
- www.xp2004.org
- Thank you so much for participating at the Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering,.
- Agile processes move the focus of software development back to what really matters: running software. ... For this reason, agile software development encourages interaction, communication, and fun. ...
- This was the focus of the Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering which took place between June 6 and June 10, 2004 at the conference center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the foot of the Bavarian Alps near Munich, Germany. In this way the conference was a unique forum for industry and academic professionals, who discussed their needs and ideas for incorporating Extreme Programming and Agile Methodologies into their professional life under consideration of the human factor. ...
- XP 2004 facilitated the swapping of ideas in a number of ways, including featured talks by professionals on the cutting edge of extreme programming and agile processes, technical presentations, activity sessions, panels, posters, code camps, workshops, tutorials and other opportunities to exchange and elaborate on new findings. ...
12. Introduction to Agile Method Movement
- ref.cern.ch
- Introduction to Agile Method Movement .
- Introduction to Agile Method Movement.
- A very short introduction to Agile methods, including RUP (available at CERN). ...
- This way of project management and software process is based on the Agile method movement. The four main principles of the Agile methods: .
- In fact, the main difference between classic and Agile methods are that the paradigm is predictability for classic and adaptability for Agile. List of the Agile methods: .
- Rapid Application Development (RAD) from James Martin (the very first Agile method) .
- On the way to Agile methods: .
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