Awards
- Winner of AXIOM Business Book Awards Bronze Medal for TQM/Productivity Books 2011 (United States)
Overview
In this new edition of her award-winning book, Jamie Lynn Cooke explains the principles of Agile, shows why it works, and demonstrates how to use Agile to significantly increase productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction in any industry. It shows how Agile approaches can give you: A faster, more flexible and highly responsive framework, allowing your organisation to leverage internal and external changes more quickly. Significantly more efficient use of resources and time, freeing up staff for greater innovation and value creation. Direct stakeholder engagement, resulting in better customer relationships and more compelling product development. Written for managers and business professionals, the book presents a range of proven Agile methods including Scrum®, Kanban, Feature Driven Development™ (FDD™) and the Dynamic Systems Development Method® (DSDM®) in clear business language. The author then devotes a chapter to each of the 12 Agile principles that make these approaches consistently successful, and details how to use these methods to tackle the core challenges faced by every organization. The book concludes with in-depth case study that compares Agile with traditional approaches for achieving three common business objectives, followed by step-by-step guidelines to making Agile work for your organization, and a range of resources for further reading. Read this book and learn how to unleash the potential of Agile in your organization.
Full Product Details
Author: Jamie Lynn Cooke ,
IT Governance Publishing
Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
Imprint: IT Governance Publishing
Edition: Second edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.465kg
ISBN: 9781849285636
ISBN 10: 1849285632
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 01 April 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""... an excellent guide; well structured, well written... It should light many fires in senior management's minds when they think of the problems their projects have had."" - Colin Bentley, Ex-Chief Examiner of PRINCE2, from reviews of the first edition"
... an excellent guide; well structured, well written... It should light many fires in senior management's minds when they think of the problems their projects have had. - Colin Bentley, Ex-Chief Examiner of PRINCE2, from reviews of the first edition
Author Information
Jamie Lynn Cooke has 25 years’ experience as a senior business analyst, project manager and solutions consultant, working with over 130 public and private sector organisations throughout Australia, Canada and the United States. She is a Certified Scrum Product Owner and Certified ScrumMaster who has worked with Agile methods since 2003, is a signatory to the Agile Manifesto, has attended numerous Agile seminars, and has worked with prominent consultants to promote Agile methods to organisations worldwide.
