Book description
"Outside-in thinking complements any approach your teams may be taking to the actual implementation of software, but it changes how you measure success. A successful outside-in team does a lot of learning and not much speculation."
—Tom Poppendieck
Build Software That Delivers Maximum Business Value to Every Key Stakeholder
Imagine your ideal development project. It will deliver exactly what your clients need. It will achieve broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption. And it will be designed and built by a productive, high-morale team of expert software professionals. Using this book's breakthrough "outside-in" approach to software development, your next project can be that ideal project.
In Outside-in Software Development, two of IBM's most respected software leaders, Carl Kessler and John Sweitzer, show you how to identify the stakeholders who'll determine your project's real value, shape every decision around their real needs, and deliver software that achieves broad, rapid, enthusiastic adoption.
The authors present an end-to-end framework and practical implementation techniques any development team can quickly benefit from, regardless of project type or scope. Using their proven approach, you can improve the effectiveness of every client conversation, define priorities with greater visibility and clarity, and make sure all your code delivers maximum business value.
Coverage includes
Understanding your stakeholders and the organizational and business context they operate in
Clarifying the short- and long-term stakeholder goals your project will satisfy
More effectively mapping project expectations to outcomes
Building more "consumable" software: systems that are easier to deploy, use, and support
Continuously enhancing alignment with stakeholder goals
Helping stakeholders manage ongoing change long after you've delivered your product
Mastering the leadership techniques needed to drive outside-in development
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- IBM Press
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1. Introducing Outside-in Development
- Chapter 2. Understanding Your Stakeholders
- Chapter 3. Understanding Organizational Context
- Chapter 4. Making Products Consumable
- Chapter 5. Aligning with Stakeholder Goals
- Chapter 6. Defining Success in Your Stakeholders’ Terms
- Chapter 7. Becoming an Outside-in Developer
- Index
- Footnotes
Product information
- Title: Outside-in Software Development: A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based Products
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2007
- Publisher(s): IBM Press
- ISBN: None
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