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Agile practices for waterfall projects : shifting processes for competitive advantage / Barbee Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Barbee, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Project management.
- Teams in the workplace.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Plantation, FL : J. Ross Publishing, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Projects in the near future will be managed with a hybrid of Agile and traditional waterfall processes to better address the speed to market, product innovation, and financial challenges that organizations face. The project managers who learn how to merge Agile with Waterfall methodologies first will gain a huge career advantage over those who lag behind. This engaging and highly instructive guide covers what Agile is, and how and when it is appropriate to blend it into your projects. Agile Practices for Waterfall Projects will help new and experienced project managers, stakeholders, and students of the discipline to proactively prepare for and ensure their future success. This agile project management book is a valuable resource for all the terms and concepts needed for those planning to take the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam.
- Contents:
- Why agile now?
- What is agile?
- Where did agile ideas originate?
- What are agile practices and how do they work?
- What are some more new agile concepts?
- Should my projects be agile?
- How does an agile team get started?
- How do agile teams estimate?
- What agile tools are important?
- How does agile scale to the enterprise level?
- How do I work with distributed teams?
- What do I use for agile documentation?
- What needs to change in my own skill set?
- What needs to change in my business skill sets?
- What shifts in business will affect me?
- What changes are needed in my organization?
- What are Scrum, XP, and DSDM?
- What are lean, kanban, crystal, and other agile practices?
- How do I jumpstart change?
- Who has made agile work?
- Parting advice.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed February 26, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781680154948
- 168015494X
- 9781604277326
- 1604277327
- OCLC:
- 847623385
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