Flex your project management muscle
Agile project management is a fast and flexible approach to managing all projects, not just software development. By learning the principles and techniques in this book, you'll be able to create a product roadmap, schedule projects, and prepare for product launches with the ease of Agile software developers. You'll discover how to manage scope, time, and cost, as well as team dynamics, quality, and risk of every project.
As mobile and web technologies continue to evolve rapidly, there is added pressure to develop and implement software projects in weeks instead of months--and Agile Project Management For Dummies can help you do just that. Providing a simple, step-by-step guide to Agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques, it shows product and project managers how to complete and implement projects more quickly than ever.
* Complete projects in weeks instead of months
* Reduce risk and leverage core benefits for projects
* Turn Agile theory into practice for all industries
* Effectively create an Agile environment
Get ready to grasp and apply Agile principles for faster, more accurate development.
Autorentext
Mark C. Layton, aka "Mr. Agile™," is a veteran of more than 25 years in the project and program management field. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer, a PMP, and an MBA. He holds multiple scrum scaling certifications and is the founder of Platinum Edge, LLC. Steven J. Ostermiller is a coach, mentor, and trainer empowering leaders and teams to become more agile. He holds CSP and PMP designations.
Zusammenfassung
Flex your project management muscle
Agile project management is a fast and flexible approach to managing all projects, not just software development. By learning the principles and techniques in this book, you'll be able to create a product roadmap, schedule projects, and prepare for product launches with the ease of Agile software developers. You'll discover how to manage scope, time, and cost, as well as team dynamics, quality, and risk of every project.
As mobile and web technologies continue to evolve rapidly, there is added pressure to develop and implement software projects in weeks instead of monthsand Agile Project Management For Dummies can help you do just that. Providing a simple, step-by-step guide to Agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques, it shows product and project managers how to complete and implement projects more quickly than ever.
- Complete projects in weeks instead of months
- Reduce risk and leverage core benefits for projects
- Turn Agile theory into practice for all industries
- Effectively create an Agile environment
Get ready to grasp and apply Agile principles for faster, more accurate development.
Inhalt
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 1
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book 2
Where to Go from Here 3
Part 1: Understanding Agile 5
Chapter 1: Modernizing Project Management 7
Project Management Needed a Makeover 7
The origins of modern project management 8
The problem with the status quo 10
Introducing Agile Project Management 11
How agile projects work 13
Why agile projects work better 14
Chapter 2: Applying the Agile Manifesto and Principles 17
Understanding the Agile Manifesto 17
Outlining the Four Values of the Agile Manifesto 20
Value 1: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools 20
Value 2: Working software over comprehensive documentation 22
Value 3: Customer collaboration over contract negotiation 24
Value 4: Responding to change over following a plan 25
Defining the 12 Agile Principles 26
Agile principles of customer satisfaction 27
Agile principles of quality 30
Agile principles of teamwork 31
Agile principles of project management 33
Adding the Platinum Principles 37
Resisting formality 37
Thinking and acting as a team 38
Visualizing rather than writing 38
Changes as a Result of Agile Values 41
The Agile Litmus Test 41
Chapter 3: Why Being Agile Works Better 43
Evaluating Agile Benefits 43
How Agile Approaches Beat Historical Approaches 48
Greater flexibility and stability 49
Reduced nonproductive tasks 51
Higher quality, delivered faster 53
Improved team performance 54
Tighter project control 56
Faster and less costly failure 57
Why People Like Being Agile 57
Executives 58
Product development and customers 59
Management 60
Development teams 61
Part 2: Being Agile 63
Chapter 4: Agile Approaches 65
Diving under the Umbrella of Agile Approaches 65
Reviewing the Big Three: Lean, Scrum, and Extreme Programming 69
An overview of lean 69
An overview of scrum 73
An overview of extreme programming 76
Putting It All Together 80
Chapter 5: Agile Environments in Action 81
Creating the Physical Environment 82
Collocating the team 82
Setting up a dedicated area 83
Removing distractions 84
Going mobile 85
Low-Tech Communicating 86
High-Tech Communicating 88
Choosing Tools 90
The purpose of the tool 90
Organizational and compatibility constraints 90
Chapter 6: Agile Behaviors in Action 93
Establishing Agile Roles 93
Product owner 94
Development team member 97
Scrum master 98
Stakeholders 100
Agile mentor 102
Establishing New Values 102
Commitment 103
Courage 103
Focus 104
Openness 105
Respect 106
Changing Team Philosophy 107
Dedicated team 107
Cross-functionality 108
Self-organization 110
Self-management 111
Size-limited teams 112
Ownership 113
Part 3: Agile Planning and Execution 115
Chapter 7: Defining the Product Vision and Product Roadmap 117
Agile Planning 118
Progressive elaboration 120
Inspect and adapt 120
Defining the Product Vision 121
Step 1: Developi...