Making Sense of Agile Project Management
Balancing Control and Agility
1. Edition April 2011
272 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies, and practices. Filled with cases taken from real-world companies illustrating good and bad agile implementation, this book provides business managers and leaders with a solid understanding of how to fit agile methodologies into an overall business strategy that provides the right balance of control and agility for their business.
The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to develop a more agile approach and understand how to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies, and practices to create an appropriate balance of control and agility to fit a business environment as well as the risks and complexities of any individual project. The book will also provide business managers and leaders an understanding of how to fit agile methodologies into an overall business strategy that provides the right balance of control and agility for their business.
Who Should Read This Book?
Brief Overview of the Book.
Why I Wrote This Book.
How to Use This Book.
Acknowledgments.
Part I. Overview.
1 Introduction.
2 Agile Values, Principles, and Practices.
3 Becoming More Agile.
4 Part I Summary and Action Plan.
5 Case Studies.
Part II. Overview.
6 Agile Project Management.
7 Fundamental Principles behind SDLC Models.
8 Software Development Life Cycles.
9 Part II Summary and Action Plan.
Part III Appendices.
Appendix A Overview of Agile Development Practices.
Appendix B Overview of Agile Project Delivery Frameworks.
Index.
