Agile Kaizen Managing Continuous Improvement Far Beyond Retrospectives /

• Main Author: Medinilla, Ángel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Management.; Project management.; Management information systems.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Project Management.; Software Engineering.; Software Management.

Agile teams have been struggling with the concept of continuous improvement since the first Agile frameworks were developed, and still very little has been written about the practice of continuous improvement in Agile environments. Although team retrospectives have been prescribed and some practices...

Table of Contents:

• Part I – Agile Kaizen
• Understanding Kaizen
• Why and How Kaizen Fails
• Retrospectives and Kaizen Events
• Team Kaizen
• Process Kaizen
• Product Kaizen
• Epilogue: Implementing the Framework for Agile Kaizen
• PART II – Retrospective Activities And Games
• Process Activities
• Product Activities.