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OverviewWith Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal: Agile Project Management with Kanban. Author Eric Brechner pioneered Kanban within the Xbox engineering team at Microsoft. Now he shows you exactly how to make it work for your team. Think of this book as “Kanban in a box”: open it, read the quickstart guide, and you’re up and running fast. As you gain experience, Brechner reveals powerful techniques for right-sizing teams, estimating, meeting deadlines, deploying components and services, adapting or evolving from Scrum or traditional Waterfall, and more. For every step of your journey, you’ll find pragmatic advice, useful checklists, and actionable lessons. This truly is “Kanban in a box”: all you need to deliver breakthrough value and quality. Use Kanban techniques to: Start delivering continuous value with your current team and project Master five quick steps for completing work backlogs Plan and staff new projects more effectively Minimise work in progress and quickly adjust to change Eliminate artificial meetings and prolonged stabilisation Improve and enhance customer engagement Visualise workflow and fix revealed bottlenecks Drive quality upstream Integrate Kanban into large projects Optimise sustained engineering (contributed by James Waletzky) Expand Kanban beyond software development Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric BrechnerPublisher: Microsoft Press,U.S. Imprint: Microsoft Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 18.50cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.260kg ISBN: 9780735698956ISBN 10: 0735698953 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 26 March 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Getting management consent Chapter 2: Kanban quick-start guide Chapter 3: Hitting deadlines Chapter 4: Adapting from Waterfall Chapter 5: Evolving from Scrum Chapter 6: Deploying components, apps, and services Chapter 7: Using Kanban within large organizations Chapter 8: Sustained engineering Chapter 9: Further resources and beyond Index About the authorReviewsAuthor InformationEric Brechner is the development manager for Microsoft’s Xbox Engineering Services team. At Microsoft, he has also been development manager for Xbox.com, engineering learning and development, and Office Media Store. He has previously worked at Boeing, Silicon Graphics, Graftek, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The author of a book and blog on software best practices (as I. M. Wright), he holds eight patents and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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