Whitepapers & E-Books

Analyst Report: Continuous Delivery Maturity Assessment

ThoughtWorks commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct in-depth surveys with 325 business and IT professionals to evaluate whether their current software delivery processes were sufficient to meet the relentless demand for innovation.

E-Book: Tools for Adaptive Planning

For software development to translate into business value, it has to be driven by adaptive project and program leadership. Flexible, adaptive planning and estimation can improve team performance and morale. Easier said than done? See how Mingle Plus can help you plan adaptively by providing visibility of changes in projects so you can proactively and flexibly plan your program.

E-Book: Problem with Roll-ups

In a multi-team environment, rolling up data hides valuable information about progress toward objectives. Get insight into the problems that roll-ups can cause by giving misleading forecasts about progress toward objectives.

E-Book: Continuous Delivery from months to weeks

See how failing fast and learning fast can help optimize your Continuous Delivery goal from months to weeks

E-Book: Smash Silos with Go

Practical ways on smashing silos with ThoughtWorks Studios' Go. See how Go empowers various roles on your team - Developers, QAs, Ops and Release Managers to have visibility and control over the build-test-release process. Get pointers on implementing Continuous Collaborative Delivery with Go.

E-Book: Challenging ALM: What really matters when picking tools?

It is a given: software teams must rapidly respond to change to keep pace. Software development tools can be a huge catalyst in helping teams keep up with business changes. In this ebook we provide tips to pick tools that will help you deliver what the customer wants and challenge you to look beyond traditional ALM criteria of features, performance and price.

E-Book: Partnering Across the Organization

An excerpt from 'The Agile Executive Primer" by Paul Ellarby. This ebook points the executive in the right direction in a brief, easy-to-read, to-the-point way.

E-Book: How do you Develop a Shared Understanding on an Agile project?

Having a shared understanding of customer requirements is central to all aspects of Agile project development. User stories play a big part in cultivating a shared understanding. In this ebook we explore common approaches to writing and sharing user stories and their adaptations from real-world projects.

E-Book: How do you estimate on an Agile project?

Estimation can be a difficult beast to deal with; more so on an Agile project. How do you estimate when you don’t have a list of requirements that is complete or signed-off by the customer? Or a nailed-down schedule? What should your currency of estimation be? How do you estimate on a distributed team? Is it worth estimating at all? In this ebook we explore various perspectives on estimation beginning at the very root - What is the purpose of estimation?

White Paper: Agile Release Management: Toward Frequent Low Risk Releases

Everybody in IT has the same goal: rapid, reliable, low risk delivery of high-quality, valuable functionality to users. This white paper discusses the application of agile and lean techniques to release management in order to achieve this goal. The approach set out here is informed by the work of the DevOps movement, which aims to apply agile principles and practices to release management and operations