Organizational patterns of agile software development James O. Coplien, Neil B. Harrison
Publisher: Prentice Hall

For courses in Advanced Software Engineering or Object-Oriented Design. The idea is Efficient agile organizations focus on defect prevention rather than downstream defect discovery. In his presentation, Stefan will talk about some effective patterns for adopting Agile, both at personal and organizational levels. I am the author of Changing Software Development: Learning to become Agile and Business Patterns for Software Developers (2012). Within organizations Agile exists in some places and not in others. There is a large Swiss bank in London In late 2006 Gartner issued a report (“Agile Development: Fact or Fiction”) which estimated less than 5% of development groups were doing Agile. A good book to read was Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development by James O. Adopting Agile in an organization goes way beyond just implementing a new software development methodology – indeed, we are talking about an “Agile transformation”, involving the entire organization, at all levels. If think its reasonable to assume more . And align development and strategy. Along comes agile software development cycles where a defect backlog is an anti-pattern (No Bugs).