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Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and refining it to support even the largest projects and organisations. Writing for project leaders, managers, and executives at all levels, Highsmith integrates the best project management, product management, and software development practices into an overall framework designed to support unprecedented speed and mobility. The many topics added in this new edition include incorporating agile values, scaling agile projects, release planning, portfolio governance, and enhancing organisational agility. Project and business leaders will especially appreciate Highsmith’s new coverage of promoting agility through performance measurements based on value, quality, and constraints. This edition’s coverage includes: Understanding the agile revolution’s impact on product development Recognising when agile methods will work in project management, and when they won’t Setting realistic business objectives for Agile Project Management Promoting agile values and principles across the organisation Utilising a proven Agile Enterprise Framework that encompasses governance, project and iteration management, and technical practices Optimising all five stages of the agile project: Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt, and Close Organisational and product-related processes for scaling agile to the largest projects and teams Agile project governance solutions for executives and management The “Agile Triangle”: measuring performance in ways that encourage agility instead of discouraging it The changing role of the agile project leader

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Author:   Jim Highsmith
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9780321658395

ISBN 10:   0321658396
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   30 July 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Agile Revolution Chapter 2: Value over Constraints Chapter 3: Teams over Tasks Chapter 4: Adapting over Conforming Chapter 5: An Agile Project Management Model Chapter 6: The Envision Phase Chapter 7: The Speculate Phase Chapter 8: Advanced Release Planning Chapter 9: The Explore Phase Chapter 10: The Adapt and Close Phases Chapter 11: Scaling Agile Projects Chapter 12: Governing Agile Projects Chapter 13: Beyond Scope, Schedule, and Cost: Measuring Agile Performance Chapter 14: Reliable Innovation Bibliography Index

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Jim Highsmith directs Cutter Consortium’s agile consulting practice. He has over 30 years experience as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, and software developer. Jim is the author of Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Addison Wesley 2004; Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems, Dorset House 2000 and winner of the prestigious Jolt Award, and Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Addison Wesley 2002. Jim is the recipient of the 2005 international Stevens Award for outstanding contributions to systems development.   He is also co-editor, with Alistair Cockburn, of the Agile Software Development Series of books from Addison Wesley. Jim is a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto, a founding member of The Agile Alliance, coauthor of the Declaration Interdependence for project leaders, and cofounder and first president of the Agile Project Leadership Network. A frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, Jim has published dozens of articles in major industry publications.   Jim has consulted with IT and product development organizations and software companies in the U.S., Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, India, and New Zealand to help them adapt to the accelerated pace of development in increasingly complex, uncertain environments. Jim’s areas of consulting include the areas of Agile Software Development, Project Management, and Collaboration. He has held technical and management positions with software, computer hardware, banking, and energy companies. Jim holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in management.  

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