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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: A Quick Read A short history provides context Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles set up Agile methods The Project Development Life Cycle covers the business case to business delivery Some terminology to make the reading easier Plan-driven provides lessons learned Agile Methods are outcome focused The Spiral methodology is a risk reducer Summary and take-away pointsChapter 2: The Agile Business Case The business case adds value to the project Business value models are the set-up for the business case The Project Balance Sheet helps communicate with the business decision-makers The Agile Business Case is built by levels Summary and take-away pointsChapter 3: Quality in the Agile Space Quality is built around values, principles, and practices Thought leaders set up Agile quality values and principles Quality values and principles are planned into the Agile methods Summary and take-away pointsChapter 4: Managing Test Principles and Practices guide Testing-in Quality Test-Driven-Design is the starting point Test planning is essential to good test metrics Testing by sampling conserves time and money Testing a hypothesis builds confidence Summary and take-away pointsChapter 5: Developing the Scope and Requirements The most affordable scope is a best value Vision is the beginning An Agile partnership with the customer is built on rights and responsibilities There is a process for requirements Teams work with stories, models, and prototypes The WBS is a tool for organizing scope Manage scope emergence with the planning horizon Summary and take-away pointsChapter 6: Planning Cost and Schedule It's Agile! Why plan? Make Agile plans for Agile projects Time-boxes are the building blocks of schedules in the agile space Summary and take-away pointsChapter 7: Estimating Cost and Schedule The character of estimates affect predictability Scope, complexity, and velocity drive all estimates Summary and take-away pointsChapter 8: Teams Are Everything Principles and Values guide teams Teams are building blocks in the Agile project Some teams work; others don't Matrix Management manages resources in the Agile space Agile teams recruit their members Summary and take-away pointsChapter 9: Governance Governance is built on quality principles Governance empowers Some mechanics are necessary Governance verifies compliance Summary and take-away pointsChapter 10: Earning Value Earned value is earning the worth of the opportunity Value is earned at every Agile release Plan, do, check, and act at every release Summary and take-away pointsChapter 11: Scaling Up and Contracting Scale amplifies every problem Networks enable large scale Virtual teams expand throughput Agile-by-contract enables scale Contracting in the Agile space shares risk Summary and take-away pointsChapter 12: Benefit Realization Benefits are part of the plan Driving for benefits Measuring results drives improvements Summary and take-away pointsAppendix I: Methodologies The SCRUM methodology is management-centric Extreme Programming is disciplined. The Crystal Methodology is human powered. The EVO Methodology is PDCA centric Summary and take-away pointsAppendix II: GlossaryIndex

About the Author :
John C Goodpasture, PMP, has engineering degrees from both Georgia Tech and the University of Maryland and broad practical experience in executive management, project management, systems engineering, and operations analysis. Mr. Goodpasture 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 at a large document imaging company. He is a sought-after speaker and author of the one-of-a-kind book, Quantitative Methods in Project Management.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781604270273
  • Publisher: J Ross Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: J Ross Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: Making it Work in the Enterprise
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1604270276
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 333 gr


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