Synopses & Reviews
Agile Project Management in easy steps, now in its second edition, explains the key principles, techniques, and processes to ensure your agile project is a success. This edition of the book has been updated to reflect progress and refinement of agile methods over recent times. It explains the key principles, techniques and processes of agile project management, working through an entire project, explaining the main activities and deliverables including:
Pre-project start-up and terms of reference
Feasibility assessment and the business case
Establishing the foundations for success
Iterative development and the evolving solution
Implementation and post-project assessment
It includes additional coverage of business analysis, user experience, feature-driven development and agile projects in large programmes and enterprises.
An essential guide for anyone new to agile projects and a valuable source of inspiration for the more experienced. It also includes downloadable templates to get you started.
Synopsis
An essential guide for anyone new to
agile projects and a valuable source of inspiration for the more experienced.
Explains the key principles, techniques and processes of agile project
management. Includes free downloadable templates to get you started
Agile
Project Management in easy steps, second edition explains the
key principles, techniques, and processes to ensure your agile project is a
success. This edition of the book has been updated to reflect progress and
refinement of agile methods over recent times. It explains the key principles,
techniques and processes of agile project management, working through an entire
project, explaining the main activities and deliverables including:
Pre-project
start-up and terms of referenceFeasibility assessment and
the business caseEstablishing the foundations for successIterative
development and the evolving solutionImplementation and
post-project assessmentIt includes additional coverage of
business analysis, user experience, feature-driven development and agile
projects in large programmes and enterprises.
Synopsis
The second edition of
Agile Project Management in Easy Steps defines agile projects and then examines the typical components of such a project and the appropriate approach to project managing them. These include changing requirements, different way of planning, more than usual Project Phases, prioritized Business Requirements, and a broader approach to Risk Management.
For completion, it also shows how to use the traditional project management areas such as team management, risk management, quality management, communications and reporting.
Agile Project Management in Easy Steps conforms to using simple stages to follow, enabling desired results with no confusion along the way.
About the Author
John Carroll is a project management consultant with many yearsand#8217; experience of managing large and small projects, programs and portfolios. Now based in South West England, he has run projects and programs across Europe and the United States. His experience covers most types of organizations including government, higher education, manufacturing industries, pharmaceuticals, software development and the emergency services. He has worked on most types of projects and trained project managers in many different organizations.
John is also the author of Effective Project Management in Easy Steps, Effective Time Management in Easy Steps and all editions of (MS) Project in Easy Steps.