Head First Agile - A Brain-Friendly Guide to Agile Principles, Ideas, and Real-World Practices

"Free full-length practice PMI-ACP exam inside"--Cover.

About the author

Andrew Stellman is a developer, architect, speaker, agile coach, project manager, and expert in building better software. Andrew is an author and international speaker, with top-selling books in software development and project management, and world-recognized expert in transforming and improving software organizations, teams, and code. He has architected and built large-scale software systems, managed large international software teams, and consulted for companies, schools, and corporations, including Microsoft, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Bank of America, Notre Dame, and MIT. He's had the privilege of working with some pretty amazing programmers during that time, and likes to think that he's learned a few things from them.

Jennifer Greene is an enterprise agile transformation leader, an agile coach, development manager, project manager, speaker, and authority on software engineering practices and principles. She's been building software for over twenty years in many different domains including media, finance, and IT consulting. She's led large-scale agile adoption efforts supporting development teams around the world and helped individual team members get the most out of agile practices. She looks forward to continuing to work with talented teams solving interesting and difficult problems.

Summary

It turns out that agile can work well for one team and cause serious problems for another. The difference is team mindset. With this brain-friendly guide, you'll change the way you think about your projects-for the better!

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Greene, Greene Jennifer, Andrew Stellman, Stellman Andrew
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781449314330
• ISBN: 978-1-4493-1433-0
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 233 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 982 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management, COMPUTERS / Programming / General, COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Project Management, Computer programming / software engineering, Computer certification, Computer Programming / Software Development