Project Management the Agile Way ─ Making It Work in the Enterprise

A best-seller in its first edition, this leading-edge Agile project management book has been updated, revised, and redesigned into a modular format, with learning objectives, discussion questions for critical thinking, and various supporting materials such as a discussion guide organized by chapter and module to facilitate instruction.This second edition provides new coverage of Agile as a hybrid with traditional methods, how to transition to Agile, and state-of-the-art requirements management methods. It discusses “the Agile Grand Bargain”, the shift in dominance from plans to product and input to output, the latest public sector practices, and new concepts such as return on benefit, and introduces Kanban and discusses it throughout. Experienced project and program managers, business analysts, architects and systems analysts, and students who are comfortable in traditional methods of project management will learn about Agile methods and gain an understanding of how to make Agile work effectively in the enterprise. Practitioners will gain practical day-to-day tips and advice on how to apply these practices to mainstream projects and how to integrate these methods with other methodologies used in the enterprise.Key Features ‧ Provides a modular format, with learning objectives and discussion questions for critical thinking, to facilitate training and course instruction ‧ Offers a review of most of the popular Agile and iterative methodologies for project and program management and explains how to transition to Agile at the project/program level and scale Agile and iterative methods for enterprise projects ‧ Discusses Agile as a hybrid with traditional waterfall methods, and supplies practical tips and application advice for how to harmonize agile and iterative methods with mainstream project processes ‧ Presents state-of-the-art requirements management practices, the latest practices in the public sector, and introduces Kanban and discusses it throughout

John C. Goodpasture, PMP, is a leading expert and program management practitioner, coach, author, and consulting manager for technology projects. Mr. Goodpasture is an accomplished quantitative risk manager, expert in cost/schedule estimating, and contract and sub-contract management. He is an experienced instructor of Agile methods, risk management, PMP prep, and quantitative methods. John is a skilled speaker, and published author of several books, and numerous magazine and journal articles and papers. He has engineering degrees from both Georgia Tech University and the University of Maryland. He is currently the Managing Principal at Square Peg Project Management Consulting and he gained his previous practitioner experience as a strategic project office director and systems engineering program director for Harris Corporation, as a program manager for the U.S. Department of Defense, and as vice president of a large document imaging company.