David Morris Libri

Agile Project Management in easy steps, now in its second edition, explains the key principles, techniques, and processes to ensure your agile project is a success. This edition of the book has been updated to reflect progress and refinement of agile methods over recent times. It explains the key principles, techniques and processes of agile project management, working through an entire project, explaining the main activities and deliverables including: Pre-project start-up and terms of reference Feasibility assessment and the business case Establishing the foundations for success Iterative development and the evolving solution Implementation and post-project assessment It includes additional coverage of business analysis, user experience, feature-driven development and agile projects in large programmes and enterprises. An essential guide for anyone new to agile projects and a valuable source of inspiration for the more experienced. It also includes downloadable templates to get you started.

"Scrum in Easy Steps starts with an introduction to Scrum, the most widely used framework for software development. This concise guide then shows how to get a Scrum team started, sustaining performance and continually improving. ... This guide even shows how to integrate Scrum teams successfully with other parts of the organization. An essential guide for anyone new to Scrum, and a valuable reference for the more experienced -- includes downloadable templates to get your started."--Back cover.

An introduction to XML basics essential to any developer, this handbook defines XML syntax through the use of elements and attributes and explains how an XML structure can be enforced through the use of DTDs and Schemas. Advanced topics, including web services, XML security, and programming with the DOM and SAX parsers, are also addressed. The various products that use XML and the ways in which iSeries applications exploit the versatility of XML are discussed.