Agile Project Management in Easy Steps

by Carroll, John; Morris, David

• ISBN13: 9781840786415
• ISBN10: 1840786418
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-09-01
• Publisher: In Easy Steps Limited

Summary

Agile Project Management in easy steps, now in its second edition, explains the key principles, techniques, and processes to ensure your agile project is a success. This edition of the book has been updated to reflect progress and refinement of agile methods over recent times. It explains the key principles, techniques and processes of agile project management, working through an entire project, explaining the main activities and deliverables including:

Pre-project start-up and terms of reference
Feasibility assessment and the business case
Establishing the foundations for success
Iterative development and the evolving solution
Implementation and post-project assessment

It includes additional coverage of business analysis, user experience, feature-driven development and agile projects in large programmes and enterprises.

An essential guide for anyone new to agile projects and a valuable source of inspiration for the more experienced. It also includes downloadable templates to get you started.

Author Biography

John Carroll is a project management consultant with many years’ experience of managing large and small projects, programs and portfolios. Now based in South West England, he has run projects and programs across Europe and the United States. His experience covers most types of organizations including government, higher education, manufacturing industries, pharmaceuticals, software development and the emergency services. He has worked on most types of projects and trained project managers in many different organizations.

John is also the author of Effective Project Management in Easy Steps, Effective Time Management in Easy Steps and all editions of (MS) Project in Easy Steps.