Description
A best-seller in its first edition, this leading-edge Agile project management book has been updated, revised, and redesigned into a modular format, with learning objectives, discussion questions for critical thinking, and various supporting materials such as a discussion guide organized by chapter and module to facilitate instruction. This second edition provides new coverage of Agile as a hybrid with traditional methods, how to transition to Agile, and state-of-the-art requirements management methods. It discusses “the Agile Grand Bargain”, the shift in dominance from plans to product and input to output, the latest public sector practices, and new concepts such as return on benefit, and introduces Kanban and discusses it throughout.Key Features* Provides a modular format, with learning objectives and discussion questions for critical thinking, to facilitate training and course instruction* Offers a review of most of the popular Agile and iterative methodologies for project and program management and explains how to transition to Agile at the project/program level and scale Agile and iterative methods for enterprise projects * Discusses Agile as a hybrid with traditional waterfall methods, and supplies practical tips and application advice for how to harmonize agile and iterative methods with mainstream project processes
