Cobb Making Sense of Agile Project Management

Balancing Control and Agility
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-01568-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding ofagile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable projectmanagers to develop a more agile approach and understand how toblend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies,and practices to create an appropriate balance of control andagility to fit a business environment as well as the risks andcomplexities of any individual project. The book will alsoprovide business managers and leaders an understanding of how tofit agile methodologies into an overall business strategy thatprovides the right balance of control and agility for theirbusiness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cobb, Charles G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
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.

Über Autor(innen)

Charles G. (Chuck) Cobb, PMP, is President of Breakthrough Solutions, Inc., of Medfield, Massachusetts. He is a senior-level project/program manager with a broad and deep background in business systems analysis and software development. He has worked with many companies in different application environments using numerous project management methodologies--both agile and not-so-agile--for more than twenty years.