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Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems
- By Jim Highsmith
- Published Jul 12, 2013 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Dorset House eBooks series.
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Description
- Copyright 2014
- Edition: 1st
- eBook
- ISBN-10: 0-13-348946-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-348946-0
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2000).
Winner of the 2001 Software Development Jolt Product Excellence Award
This innovative text offers a practical, realistic approach to managing high-speed, high-change software development projects. Consultant James A. Highsmith shows readers how to increase collaboration and adapt to uncertainty.
Many organizations start high-speed, high-change projects without knowing how to do them–and even worse, without knowing they don’t know. Successful completion of these projects is often at the expense of the project team.
Adaptive Software Development emphasizes an adaptive, collaborative approach to software development. The concepts allow developers to “scale-up” rapid application development and extreme programming approaches for use on larger, more complex projects.
The four goals of the book are to
- support an adaptive culture or mindset, in which change and uncertainty are assumed to be the natural state–not a false expectation of order
- introduce frameworks to guide the iterative process of managing change
- institute collaboration, the interaction of people on three levels: interpersonal, cultural, and structural
- add rigor and discipline to the RAD approach, making it scalable to the uncertainty and complexity of real-life undertakings
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xv
Permissions Acknowledgments xvii
Foreword xxi
Preface xxiii
Introduction xxix
Part 1 1
Chapter 1: Software Ascents 3
A Historical Perspective 4
A Rebirth in World View 9
Components of Adaptive Software Development 14
The Road Ahead 23
Summary 24
Chapter 2: Thriving at the Edge of Chaos 27
People as Agents 29
Emergence and the Flocking of Boids 31
The Adaptive Development Model 37
Speculate 42
Collaborate 45
Learn 45
Working in a Complex Environment 46
Summary 49
Part 2 51
Chapter 3: The Project Mission 53
Identify the Mission 55
Create Mission Artifacts 59
Share Mission Values 71
Focus on Results 77
Summary 79
Chapter 4: Planning Adaptive Development Cycles 81
Characteristics of Adaptive Cycles 83
Adaptive Planning Techniques 90
A Hypothetical Cycle Example 103
The Evolving World of Components 110
Summary 111
Chapter 5: Great Groups and the Ability to Collaborate 113
Barriers to Collaboration 115
The Essence of Great Groups 117
Using Complexity Concepts to Improve Collaboration 120
Building Collaborative Groups 126
Joint Application Development 135
Stable Change 140
Summary 141
Chapter 6: Learning: Models, Techniques, and Cycle Review Practices 143
What Is “Learning”? 144
Senge’s Learning Model 147
A CAS Learning Model 149
Learning Techniques 154
Customer Focus-Group Reviews 156
Software Inspections 167
Project Postmortems 171
Summary 174
Part 3 177
Chapter 7: Why Even Good Managers Cause Projects to Fail 179
Disruptive Technologies 180
High Change 182
No Silver Bullet 185
Are Organizations True Complex Adaptive Systems? 188
Requisite Variety 190
Project Ecosystems 190
Simplicity and Complexity 199
Summary 200
Chapter 8: Adaptive Management 202
The Adaptive (Leadership-Collaboration) Management Model 205
Creating an Adaptive Culture 213
The Progression from Process to Pattern 223
Poised at the Edge of Chaos 232
Summary 233
Chapter 9: Workstate Life Cycle Management 235
Breaking the Workflow Mindset 239
The Workstate of a Component 241
Constructing an Advanced Adaptive Life Cycle 250
Managing Component Rigor 255
Managing Workflow in an Adaptive Environment 258
Summary 259
Chapter 10: Structural Collaboration 261
The Critical Distinction Between Content and Context 264
Collaboration Services and Tools 268
Collaboration and Emergence 281
Eight Guidelines for Applying Rigor to Project Work 289
Summary 292
Chapter 11: Managing Project Time Cycles 294
A Project Management Model 295
Initiate the Project 296
Plan the Project 301
Manage the Project 311
Close the Project 319
Summary 319
Chapter 12: Dawdling, McLuhan, and Thin Air 321
Dawdling 322
McLuhan 323
Organizational Growth 326
Surviving in Thin Air 331
Bibliography 333
Index 349