The Business Value of Agile Software Methods: Maximizing Roi With Just–in–time Processes and Documentation

The Business Value of Agile Software Methods offers a comprehensive methodology for quantifying the costs and benefits of using agile methods to create innovative software products and shows a complete business value comparison between traditional and agile methods. It provides a roadmap for linking agile methods to major industry standards such as the project management, systems, and software engineering bodies of knowledge and identifies a set of critical factors for succeeding with agile methods every time.

Key Features:

––Identifies the major types and kinds of agile methods, along with the major forms of best practices, as a pretext for mixing and matching them to create super–hybrids
––Introduces a complete family of metrics, models, and measurements for estimating the costs, benefits, return on investment, and net present value of agile methods, and includes numerous how to examples
––Provides the first comprehensive compilation of cost and benefits data on agile methods from an analysis of hundreds of research studies, and introduces and illustrates the industrys first top–down parametric models for estimating agile methods costs and benefits
––WAV offers numerous free downloadable training and consulting briefings, cost and benefit spreadsheets, release planning templates, metrics for agile methods, and an ROI/business value calculator available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com

About the Author:

Dr. David F. Rico, PMP, CSM, has been a technical leader in support of NASA, DARPA, DISA, SPAWAR, USAF, AFMC, NAVAIR, CECOM, and MICOM for over 25 years. He has led, managed, or participated in over 20 organization change initiatives using Agile methods, Lean Six Sigma, ISO 9001, CMMI , SW–CMM , Enterprise Architecture, Baldrige, and DoD 5000. Dr. Rico specializes in IT investment analysis, IT project management, and IT–enabled change. He has been an international keynote speaker, published numerous articles, and written or contributed to six textbooks. David holds a B.S. in Computer Science, an M.S. in Software Engineering, and a D.M. in Information Systems.

Dr. Hasan H. Sayani has been in industry and academia for over 40 years. His interests are in information systems, information systems development, life cycle methods and tools, and semantic database management systems. Dr. Sayani has taught at the University of Maryland College Park in the Information Systems Management program. He co–founded a firm which built systems for various commercial and governmental organizations. Dr. Sayani has participated in various professional and standardization organizations (e.g., IEEE, ACM, CASE, ANS, CODASYL, DoD, CALS, etc.). Hasan holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Saya Sone, PMP, has worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies, such as CSC, BT, and AOL. She has led numerous data center design, software development, marketing, and customer support projects. Dr. Sone managed a corporate–wide rollout of Agile methods and Scrum at a major U.S. e–commerce firm. Her field of specialty is Agile Project Management. Saya holds an M.A. in Project Management, a D.B.A. in Information Systems and is also a Certified Scrum Practitioner.