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Boost your projects' efficiency and effectiveness Looking for a resource that helps you complete projects faster, better, and cheaper? Look no further than
Agile Project Management For Dummies, your handy guide to agile principles and techniques you can employ right now in your company. You'll learn to create product roadmaps, organize releases, and harness simple tools, language, and concepts to improve results and productivity. You'll also find easy ways to reduce waste and increase transparency as you establish a flexible and resilient way of doing business.
Inside... - Plan products strategically
- Execute iteratively and incrementally
- Harness artificial intelligence tools
- Coordinate diverse teams
- Manage cost and time
- Improve product quality
- Prepare for and embrace change
- Ensure process improvement
Sommario
Introduction 1
Part 1: Understanding Agility 5 Chapter 1: Modernizing Project Management 7
Chapter 2: Applying the Agile Manifesto and Principles 21
Chapter 3: Discovering Why Being Agile Works Better 49
Chapter 4: Agility Is about Being Customer Focused 71
Part 2: Being Agile 91 Chapter 5: Approaches to Becoming More Agile 93
Chapter 6: Environments for Success 111
Chapter 7: Behaviors Enabling Agility 123
Chapter 8: The Permanent Team 147
Part 3: Agile Planning and Execution 157 Chapter 9: Defining the Product Goal and Product Roadmap 159
Chapter 10: Planning Releases and Sprints 183
Chapter 11: Working throughout the Day 215
Chapter 12: Showcasing Work, Inspecting, and Adapting 241
Part 4: Project Management with Agility 253 Chapter 13: Managing a Portfolio 255
Chapter 14: Managing Scope and Procurement 271
Chapter 15: Managing Time and Cost 291
Chapter 16: Managing Team Dynamics and Communication 311
Chapter 17: Managing Quality and Risk 339
Part 5: Ensuring Success 365 Chapter 18: Building a Foundation 367
Chapter 19: De-Scaling across Organizations 383
Chapter 20: Being a Change Agent 405
Part 6: The Part of Tens 433 Chapter 21: Ten Key Benefits of Agile Product Development 435
Chapter 22: Ten Key Factors for Agile Product Development Success 443
Chapter 23: Ten Signs That You're Not Becoming More Agile 449
Chapter 24: Ten Valuable Resources for Improving Agility 461
Index 467
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Mark C. Layton is an organizational strategist and past PMI chapter president with more than 20 years' experience in the agile transformation field.
Steven J Ostermiller is a business agility guide and community leader helping organizations maximize value delivery.
Dean J. Kynaston is a coach, Certified Scrum Professional, and organizational agile transformation leader.
