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AoAD2 Chapter 2: Why Agile?

James Shore

In addition, emphasizing productivity might encourage your teams to take shortcuts and be less rigorous in their work, which could actually harm productivity. 1 See, for example, [Van Schooenderwoert 2006], [Mah 2006], and [Anderson 2006]. Users, stakeholders, domain experts, and product managers.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Customer skills fall in to several categories, as follows: Product management (aka product ownership). Product management involves managing all aspects of a product’s lifecycle, from the initial business case all the way to product launch and beyond. Iteration Demo. Real Customer Involvement.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Coffin 2006] describes an experience with two nearly identical teams: one that didn’t include users’ perspective and one that did. An Optimizing team needs business expertise, but they don’t necessarily need a traditional product manager. If you can’t get the business, customer, or user expertise you need.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

This group has published numerous books and articles on lean thinking, lean manufacturing, and lean product development, including The Toyota Product Development System (Morgan and Liker, 2006), and Lean Product and Process Development (Ward, 2007). and James E. Heppelmann.