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By Marcus Goncalves and Raj Heda
This is the seventh book in the Technical Manager's Survival Guides series. For the complete series library, go to:
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In this new volume, the authors introduce readers to agile methods for managing projects. Agile methods have been around for a while, but their prevalence has increased as the result of many successful projects in organizations that have applied them.
While some of the agile methods discussed here spring from software development experiences, it is essential to understand that the underlying principles can be applied with appropriate modifications to any industry or organization.
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ASME
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Publish Date: 2010
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Pages: 108
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Language: English
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ISBN: 9780791802960
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
Dedication
Chapter 1
A Case for Agile;
Changing Landscape of Project Management;
Why Projects Fail;
Case Example;
Is “Work the Plan and Plan the Work” Obsolete?;
Assembling a Jigsaw Puzzle;
Do We Still Need Project Managers?;
Agile Benefits.
Chapter 2
Agile Methods;
Overview;
Principles of Agile Development;
Extreme Programming (XP);
Whole Team;
Planning Game;
Small Releases;
Customer Tests;
Test-Driven Development (TDD);
Metaphor;
Pair Programming;
Collective Ownership;
Simple Design;
Continuous Integration;
Refactoring;
Coding Standard;
Sustainable Pace;
Scrum;
Open UP;
Lean Programming;
Eliminate Waste;
Amplify Learning;
Decide as Late as Possible;
Deliver as Fast as Possible;
Empower the team;
Build integrity;
See the whole;
Feature-Driven Development (FDD);
Domain Object Modeling;
Developing by Feature;
Individual Class (Code) Ownership;
Feature Teams;
Inspections;
Regular Builds;
Configuration Management;
Reporting/Visibility of Results;
Dynamic System Development Method;
Pre-project;
Project Life-cycle;
Post-project;
Crystal Clear;
Frequent Delivery;
Reflective Improvement;
Osmotic Communication;
Personal Safety;
Focus;
Easy Access to Expert Users;
Technical Environment.
Chapter 3
Scrum Demystified;
What is Scrum;
The Scrum Process;
Key Artifacts of the Scrum Process;
Product Backlog;
Release;
Sprint;
Story Cards;
Sprint Backlog;
Daily Scrum;
Burndown Chart;
The Roles on Scrum Teams;
The Product Owner;
The Team;
The Scrum Master;
Scrum in Non-IT context.
Chapter 4
Conventional versus Agile Project Management;
Overview;
Is Agile Enough?;
The APM Planning Framework;
The Conventional Way: Optimization versus Adaptation;
Project Life Cycle Comprises of Seven Phases;
Built for Known Functionality;
Focus on Optimization Rather than Adaptation;
Change is More an Exception than the Norm;
Tendency for a Predictable Future (lifetime);
Matured Technologies;
The APM Way: Adaptation versus Optimization;
No Time for “Ready,” It Is Always on “Fire...”;
Projects are “Research-like” But Yet “Mission-critical” ;
Not Sure of Lifetime;
Risk-driven;
Breakthrough and Evolving Technologies.
Chapter 5
A Business Case for Agile Project Management;
Overview;
A Word about VPM and ePM;
The Globalization of Markets and Projects;
The Rise of Third World and Closed Economies;
Corporate Downsizing;
Effects of Corporate Downsizing in Agile PM;
APM Can Mitigate Project Downsizing;
APM Mitigates Scope Changes;
Agile PM Framework for Reallocation of Resources.
Chapter 6
Trends, Camps and Collisions;
Overview;
The Project Management Bodies of Knowledge;
What is a BoK?;
Why is a BoK Important for APM?;
BoKs and Body of Competencies;
How Many BoKs are there?;
Issues in Creating a Valid (Global) BoK;
The Future;
Trend: How Much Your Time is Worth;
Improving Time Management with APM;
The 80:20 Rule;
To Clone or Not to Clone?;
Agile PMs as Visionary Leaders;
Trend: The APM Vision.
References
About the Authors