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Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams | Book Series

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Overview:

The Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams is a useful reference for Scrum teams who have had some basic training and want to use Scrum in the context of Lean. It is designed to assist the transition to effective Scrum practices that enable enterprise delivery of value to customers. While this is not a book on Lean practices, it is presented in a manner that is consistent with Lean thinking.

This book collects in one spot the good practices we have learned and observed as we have trained thousands of teams in Lean and Agile software development, including Scrum. Lean-Agile covers many principles and practices. There are several flavors of Agile methods in the marketplace, Scrum being the most popular at the moment. This Pocket Guide is designed to reinforce the Lean-Agile thinking that you, as a member of a Scrum team, are developing as you use Scrum to develop software products.

Authors:

Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott

Published In:

2009

IKIWISI | Glossary

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Definition:

IKIWISI is an acronym for “I Know It When I See It” which is used in Agile Software development to simplify the process of gathering software requirements. In the olden days, software requirements gathering was easy when compared to the present. Of course, it was not that simple. Software requirements gathering was the first set of business, before even starting with designing, cost estimation, planning and programming. But, certain straight forward criteria required completeness, consistency, traceability and testability for some software specifications, like User-interface: IKIWISI or I Know It When I See It.

The recent developments in IKIWISI, COTS ( Commercial off the Shelf) software and the rapid change in IT development, combined to examine the complicating factors. The many degrees of complexity and freedom in solutions, intangibility in software, seems to demand concrete and cyclic feedback, from people evaluating prototypes or partially built systems to clarify and refine their vision.

Further Reading:

Book: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide by Craig Larman