Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential: Unleash its Potential

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Author Biography
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Persistence of Waterfall Planning
	1.1 Introduction to AccuWiz
		1.1.1 The New COO
		1.1.2 Product Management
		1.1.3 PMO
		1.1.4 Engineering
		1.1.5 Customer Perspective
		1.1.6 Synopsis
	1.2 Summary
Chapter 2 Why Agile Has Struggled
	2.1 Agile Development Fundamentals
		2.1.1 The Agile Revolution
		2.1.2 Scrum
		2.1.3 Kanban
	2.2 Barriers to Real Agile
		2.2.1 Schedule Pressure
			2.2.1.1 Income Statement
			2.2.1.2 Balance Sheet
			2.2.1.3 The Business Plan
		2.2.2 The “Motivation” Factor
		2.2.3 The Mythical Product Owner
		2.2.4 Feature Planning
	2.3 Agile Scaling Frameworks
	2.4 Summary
	References
Chapter 3 Embracing Software Development Variance
	3.1 The Cone of Uncertainty
	3.2 Software Development Estimation Variance Explained
	3.3 Making and Meeting Feature Commitments
	3.4 How Other Departments Meet Commitments
	3.5 Agile Development Implications
	3.6 Summary
	References
Chapter 4 Cost of Delay
	4.1 Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
		4.1.1 Cost of Delay Basics
		4.1.2 Example
		4.1.3 WSJF Proof
		4.1.4 CoD and Net Present Value (NPV) Prioritization Methods
	4.2 Nonlinear Income Profiles
	4.3 CoD for Nonlinear Cumulative Income Profiles
		4.3.1 Payback Period CoD Method
		4.3.2 Third‐Year Income Slope CoD Method
		4.3.3 CoD Computation Method
	4.4 WSJF and Traditional Finance
		4.4.1 ROI
		4.4.2 Investment Rate of Return (IRR)
		4.4.3 WSJF Versus ROI Prioritization
	4.5 Summary
	References
Chapter 5 Investment Fundamentals
	5.1 Investments, Initiatives, and Programs
		5.1.1 Investment Hierarchy
	5.2 AccuWiz Investment Examples
	5.3 Portfolio Allocation
	5.4 Investment Forecasts
		5.4.1 Development Effort and Cost
		5.4.2 Investment Income Forecasts
	5.5 Investment Backlogs
		5.5.1 Investment WIP
		5.5.2 Investment Planning WIP Limits
		5.5.3 Minimizing Investment WIP
	5.6 Technical Debt Investments
	5.7 Summary
	Reference
Chapter 6 Maximizing Investment Value
	6.1 Great Products
	6.2 Business Model Value Considerations
	6.3 Stakeholder Value Analysis
		6.3.1 Gilb Stakeholder Definition
		6.3.2 Ford's Big Mistake
		6.3.3 Trucking Fleet Management Example
		6.3.4 Five Whys
	6.4 User Scenarios
	6.5 Summary
	References
Chapter 7 Planning High‐Value Investment Features
	7.1 Avoiding the Feature Pit
	7.2 Feature ROI
	7.3 Summary
	Reference
Chapter 8 Releasing Investments
	8.1 Release Opportunity Cost
	8.2 Investment Release Bundling
		8.2.1 Investment Pricing
		8.2.2 Lack of Customer Acceptance
		8.2.3 Release Overhead Costs
	8.3 Overcoming Modular Release Challenges
		8.3.1 Architecture for Modular Deployment
		8.3.2 Configuration Management
	8.4 Release Investment Prioritization
	8.5 Reducing Software Inventory Costs
	8.6 Summary
	Reference
Chapter 9 Meeting Investment Targets
	9.1 Meeting Commitments
	9.2 Investment Teams
	9.3 Managing Investment Scope
	9.4 Managing Sales Requests
	9.5 Summary
Chapter 10 Investment Planning Template
	10.1 Investment Description
	10.2 Proxy Business Case
	10.3 Product Stakeholder Analysis
		10.3.1 Customer Product Stakeholders
		10.3.2 Internal Product Stakeholders
		10.3.3 Constraints
		10.3.4 Competition
	10.4 Acceptance Criteria
	10.5 Go‐to‐Market Plan
		10.5.1 Pricing Model
		10.5.2 Deployment Model
		10.5.3 Sales Channels
	10.6 Investment Targets
		10.6.1 Development Cost
		10.6.2 Cycle Time
		10.6.3 Income Projections
			10.6.3.1 Revenue Target
			10.6.3.2 Number of Sales
		10.6.4 WSJF
	10.7 Assumption Validation
	10.8 Summary
	References
Chapter 11 Managing the Agile Roadmap
	11.1 The Agile Roadmap Management Database
	11.2 The Agile Technology Roadmap
		11.2.1 Stages of Technology Acquisition
			11.2.1.1 Awareness
			11.2.1.2 Proof of Concept
			11.2.1.3 Pilot
			11.2.1.4 Rollout
		11.2.2 Investment Technology Roadmaps
	11.3 Summary
Chapter 12 Maximizing Investment Development Productivity
	12.1 Measuring Software Productivity
		12.1.1 Cost of Quality (CoQ)
		12.1.2 Cost of Quality and Software Productivity
		12.1.3 Sources of Software Rework
	12.2 Agile Cost of Quality
		12.2.1 Reducing Agile User Story Rework
		12.2.2 Reducing Agile Defect Rework
		12.2.3 Agile Cost of Quality Example
	12.3 Summary
	References
Chapter 13 Motivating Agile Teams
	13.1 Background
	13.2 Why You're the Only Smart One in Your Organization
	13.3 Consequences and Behavior
		13.3.1 Performance and Organizational Culture
		13.3.2 Behavior and Software Quality
		13.3.3 Intrinsic Motivation
	13.4 Agile and Motivation
	13.5 Measuring Motivation
	13.6 Motivation Advice?
	13.7 Summary
	References
Chapter 14 Innovating with Investments
	14.1 Innovation – A Working Definition
	14.2 Investments as an Innovation Vehicle
	14.3 Why Your Organization Can't Innovate
	14.4 An Organizational Behavior Model of Innovation
		14.4.1 An Innovation Tale of Two Companies
		14.4.2 Creating a Culture of Innovation
			14.4.2.1 Learning about Opportunities for Innovation
			14.4.2.2 Generating Ideas
			14.4.2.3 Innovation Proposals and Demonstrations
	14.5 Summary
	References
Chapter 15 AccuWiz Gets It Together
	15.1 The Founder Meeting
	15.2 The Announcement
	15.3 Product Stakeholder Analysis
	15.4 Creating the Investment Backlog
	15.5 Customer Management
	15.6 Investment Development
		15.6.1 Project Management
		15.6.2 Managers
		15.6.3 Executive Team
	15.7 Innovation Is Revived
	15.8 Synopsis
	Reference
Chapter 16 Getting It Together in Your Company: A Practical Guide
	16.1 Step 1: Organizational Support
		16.1.1 Influence Strategy
	16.2 Step 2: Stakeholder Value Analysis
	16.3 Step 3: Stakeholder Research
	16.4 Step 4: Stakeholder Interviews
	16.5 Step 5: Investments
		16.5.1 User Scenarios
		16.5.2 Feature Definition
		16.5.3 WSJF Screening
	16.6 Step 6: Initial Roadmap
		16.6.1 Resource Allocation
	16.7 Step 7: Investment Planning
		16.7.1 Agile Roadmap Alignment Meeting
		16.7.2 Program Review
	16.8 Step 8: Consequence Alignment
	16.9 Summary
Appendix A General Cost of Delay Formula
	A.1 Reinertsen WSJF
	A.2 Income Curve Approximation
	A.3 Summary
Appendix B Investment Income Profile Forecasts
Appendix C Release Cycle Productivity Formula
Appendix D Rework and Productivity
Appendix E Innovation Behavior Survey
Glossary
Index
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