"Companies have been implementing Large agile projects for a number of years, but the \'stigma\' of \'agile only works for small projects\' continues to be a frequent barrier for newcomers and a rallying cry for agile critics.
Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that c.
Part II describes seven Best Practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level.
Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective agile methods.
In Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods can be applied to enterprise-class development.
However, agile Practices have been defined and recommended primarily to small teams.
Leffingwell\'s observations of the problem, his advice on the solution, and his description of the resulting Best Practices come from experience: he\'s been there, done that, and has seen what\'s worked." -Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Agile development practices, while still controversial in some circles, offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer requirements, and higher quality.
In his latest work, Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell shows how to achieve a pragmatic balance among these forces.
Leffingwell\'s book is a necessary guide for Large projects and Large organizations making the transition to agile development." -Jim Highsmith, director, Agile Practice, Cutter Consortium, author of Agile Project Management "There\'s tension between building Software fast and delivering Software that lasts, between being ultra-responsive to changes in the market and maintaining a degree of stability.
It offers a practical guide to Large project issues such as architecture, requirements development, multi-level release planning, and team organization.
Dean Leffingwell\'s book Scaling Software Agility fills this gap admirably.
What has been missing from the agile literature is a solid, practical book on the specifics of developing Large projects in an agile way. "Companies have been implementing Large agile projects for a number of years, but the \'stigma\' of \'agile only works for small projects\' continues to be a frequent barrier for newcomers and a rallying cry for agile critics
