Agile ALM

360 Pages·2011·13.87 MB·english

by  Michael Hüttermann

Lightweight tools and agile strategies
M H
M A N N I N G ICHAEL ÜTTERMANN
Agile ALM

Agile ALM
Lightweight tools and
Agile strategies
MICHAEL HÜTTERMANN
MANNING
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brief contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO AGILE ALM ................................... 1
1 ■ Getting started with Agile ALM 3
2 ■ ALM and Agile strategies 34
PART 2 FUNCTIONAL AGILE ALM........................................... 59
3 ■ Using Scrum for release management 61
4 ■ Task-based development 92
PART 3 INTEGRATION AND RELEASE MANAGEMENT................ 117
5 ■ Integration and release management 119
6 ■ Creating a productive development environment 170
7 ■ Advanced CI tools and recipes 191
PART 4 OUTSIDE-IN AND BARRIER-FREE DEVELOPMENT.......... 247
8 ■ Requirements and test management 249
9 ■ Collaborative and barrier-free development with
Groovy and Scala 297
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contents
preface xv
acknowledgments xvii
about this book xix
about the cover illustration xxv
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO AGILE ALM........................ 1
1 Getting started with Agile ALM 3
1.1 Agile ALM at a glance 5
1.2 Evolution of software engineering: moving to Agile ALM 7
SCM and the first ALM trial balloons 8 ■ The dawn of
ALM 13 ■ Becoming Agile: Agile ALM 15
1.3 Building blocks of Agile ALM 17
Stakeholder focus 17 ■ Views on releasing and Agile ALM 19
Service orientation, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS 19 ■ Task-based and
outside-in 21 ■ Configuration, customization, and
plug-ins 22 ■ The polyglot programming world 23 ■ Open
source culture 24 ■ Open technology and
standards 25 ■ Automation 26
1.4 Comprehensive Agile ALM with lightweight tooling 26
Toolchains and accidental complexity 27 ■ Agile ALM
tools 28 ■ Effective and efficient tooling 29
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