Refactoring to Agility
- Refactoring to Agility
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Section 1.1. Agile and Plan-driven Methodologies
- Section 1.2. How Time-boxed Iterations Help Us Handle Change
- Section 1.3. Managing the Risk of Transitioning to Agility
- Section 1.4. Phased Transition and Refactoring to Agility
- Section 1.5. Outline of This Book
- Section 1.6. References
- Chapter 2. What Is Agility?
- Section 2.1. Agility Is Not Binary
- Section 2.2. How Much Agility Is Realistic Today?
- Section 2.3. What Do We Need to React to with Agility?
- Section 2.4. Agility Is Not an End State
- Section 2.5. Agile Values
- Section 2.6. Agile Teams
- Section 2.7. Agile Management
- Section 2.8. References
- Chapter 3. Phase 1Getting to Fixed-length Development Iterations
- Section 3.1. Start with the Coding Phase
- Section 3.2. Plan and Release FunctionalityNot Components
- Section 3.3. Example of Planning by Functionality
- Section 3.4. Is It Refactoring or Rework?
- Section 3.5. Preparing for Changes That Affect External Entities
- Section 3.6. Common Pitfalls of Phase 1
- Section 3.7. Evidence That Phase 1 Is Complete
- Section 3.8. References
- Chapter 4. Phase 2Measuring the Process
- Section 4.1. Using Metrics to Affect Behavior
- Section 4.2. Agile Metrics Philosophies
- Section 4.3. What Is The Goal?
- Section 4.4. What Should We Measure?
- Section 4.5. Techniques for Defining Other Metrics
- Section 4.6. Deploying Metrics
- Section 4.7. Conclusions
- Section 4.8. References
- Chapter 5. Phase 3Refactoring the Process
- Section 5.1. Are We Ready for Optimization?
- Section 5.2. What Is a Process Smell?
- Section 5.3. Picking Which Smell to Work On
- Section 5.4. Making the Selected Change
- Section 5.5. Measuring the Effect of a Change
- Chapter 6. Process Innovations by Type
- Section 6.1. Planning Innovations
- Section 6.2. Estimation Innovations
- Section 6.3. Process Management Innovations
- Section 6.4. AnalysisDesign Innovations
- Section 6.5. Development Innovations
- Section 6.6. General Process Innovations
- Section 6.7. References
- Chapter 7. Process Smells
- Section 7.1. Non-value-adding Activities
- Section 7.2. Smells in Deliverables
- Section 7.3. Planning Smells
- Section 7.4. General Smells
- Section 7.5. References