Jim Highsmith

This edition’s coverage includes: Understanding the agile revolution’s impact on product development ; Recognizing 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 organization ; Utilizing a proven Agile Enterprise Framework that encompasses governance, project and iteration management, and technical practices ; Optimizing all five stages of the agile project: Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt, and Close ; Organizational 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." product description

Contents:
The agile revolution
Value over constraints
Teams over tasks
Adapting over conforming
An agile project management model
The envision phase
The speculate phase
Advanced release planning
The explore phase
The adapt and close phases
Scaling agile projects
Governing agile projects
Beyond scope, schedule, and cost : measuring agile performance
Reliable innovation… (mer)