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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (Agile Software Development Series) 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

by Jim Highsmith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Best practices for managing projects in agile environments—now updated with new techniques for larger projects


Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and refining it to support even the largest projects and organizations.

 

Writing for project leaders, managers, and executives at all levels, Highsmith integrates the best project management, product management, and software development practices into an overall framework designed to support unprecedented speed and mobility. The many topics added in this new edition include incorporating agile values, scaling agile projects, release planning, portfolio governance, and enhancing organizational agility. Project and business leaders will especially appreciate Highsmith’s new coverage of promoting agility through performance measurements based on value, quality, and constraints.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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    Addison-Wesley Professional
  5. Publication date
    July 10, 2009
  6. Part of series
    Agile Software Development
  7. Language
    English
  8. File size
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Best practices for managing projects in agile environments―now updated with new techniques for larger projects


Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and refining it to support even the largest projects and organizations.

Writing for project leaders, managers, and executives at all levels, Highsmith integrates the best project management, product management, and software development practices into an overall framework designed to support unprecedented speed and mobility. The many topics added in this new edition include incorporating agile values, scaling agile projects, release planning, portfolio governance, and enhancing organizational agility. Project and business leaders will especially appreciate Highsmith's new coverage of promoting agility through performance measurements based on value, quality, and constraints.

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

About the Author

Jim Highsmith is an Executive Consultant with ThoughtWorks. He has over 30 years experience as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, and software developer. Jim is the author of Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Addison Wesley 2004; Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems, Dorset House 2000 and winner of the prestigious Jolt Award, and Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Addison Wesley 2002. Jim is the recipient of the 2005 international Stevens Award for outstanding contributions to systems development.
 
He is also co-editor, with Alistair Cockburn, of the Agile Software Development Series of books from Addison Wesley. Jim is a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto, a founding member of The Agile Alliance, coauthor of the Declaration Interdependence for project leaders, and cofounder and first president of the Agile Project Leadership Network. A frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, Jim has published dozens of articles in major industry publications.
 
Jim has consulted with IT and product development organizations and software companies in the U.S., Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, India, and New Zealand to help them adapt to the accelerated pace of development in increasingly complex, uncertain environments. Jim's areas of consulting include the areas of Agile Software Development, Project Management, and Collaboration. He has held technical and management positions with software, computer hardware, banking, and energy companies. Jim holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in management.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002HMJYAG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (July 10, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 10, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5153 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 426 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jim Highsmith’s—well-known agilist, author, and storyteller— career spans six-decades of rapid technology and business change. Jim has been at the forefront of software technology’s response to that change, from working in the 1960s on Apollo, to 1970s COBOL business applications, to creating Adaptive Software Development, to recent engagements crafting modern digital businesses. With decades of business, management, and software development background, he is uniquely qualified to explore the history of software development so we can prepare for the evermore chaotic future.

Jim is the author of EDGE: value-driven digital transformation (Addison Wesley, 2020), Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility (Addison Wesley 2014); Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (Addison Wesley 2009); Agile Software Development Ecosystems, (Addison Wesley 2002); Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems, (Dorset House 2000) winner of the prestigious Jolt Award; and winner of the 2005 international Stevens Award for outstanding contributions to software development.

Jim is a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto, a founding member of Agile Alliance, coauthor of the Declaration of Interdependence for project leaders, and cofounder and first president of the Agile Leadership Network. Jim has consulted with IT, product development organizations and software companies in the U.S., Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, India, and New Zealand.

Website: jimhighsmith.com

Twitter: @jimhighsmith

LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/in/jhighsmith/

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Jamie M.
5.0 out of 5 stars great for understanding agile
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2022
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everything in this book is very clear and consise
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Daniel Oshaben
4.0 out of 5 stars excellent overview of the agile process in both software and other products
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2013
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This book is a good introduction into agile projects. It compares agile to the traditional project management processes. The book shows where agile is superior to traditional project management and area where the traditional process is superior. Overall a good intro to APM
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Matt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for all executives and PMs
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2019
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This is a book to add to your library. Its one that you should read and reference back to when you are struggling to implement change!
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phaskitt
5.0 out of 5 stars Now a name to what we learned through the School of Hard Knocks
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2013
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Excellent book by a renowned expert in the industry. At some point in our careers most of us have managed a multi-year, multi-million dollar project that used a strict waterfall methodology. Mine occurred about 15 years ago. We spent 1 year writing the specification (in collaboration with the customer I might add). We spent 2 years building the system and created a rigorous Acceptance Plan that demonstrated every single requirement. The customer's reaction was "You built exactly what I asked for; I hate it". Of course we got our money by clicking through the Acceptance Plan. The customer was unhappy; the users wouldn't use it. Never again!

So, now there is a name and guidance on how to do iterative (Agile) SW development.

Maybe this book will help others learn a better method before the pain of going over a waterfall in a barrel.
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Andy Burns
3.0 out of 5 stars Agile Master's Inscrutable Book
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2012
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Reviewing this book now in the context of the 11 books the Project Management Institute (PMI) originally recommended reading to prepare for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam. Of that 4,500 page reading list this book touched on several of this reviewer's personal biases. In the interest of transparency the poor rating is entirely, shamelessly acknowledged to be based on that bias. If the reader doesn't share these biases, the book may be perfectly fine for a personal journey to "see Agile". Highsmith's expertise on methodology, planning, continuous improvement, extreme programming (XP) and managing teams is on full display.
However, the use of the fictional narrative to illuminate concepts is tedious and ill-advised. Maya and Herman's adventures in Agile are just a weird (although infrequent) injection to this book. Other's make use of this conceit. Satisfied readers of "The Goal" who feel that fiction really illuminated critical chain theory should probably discount this criticism. The general bias on display in this review is that bad fiction doesn't add to the message.
The message is also diluted by writing style. The prose is impenetrable at times. The impermeability is fortified by incessant references to other works creating a pedantic air. The second bias here is obviously a desire to have authors of reference materials get to the point in a succinct manner.
So this jaundiced review must acknowledge a few facts. First many of Highsmith's techniques appear in my teaching of a PMI-ACP Certification Class, i.e. Product Vision-Vision Box. So second, the book is obviously useful, enjoyable at times, widely heralded as great, but not in the reviewer's opinion as useful as many of the 11 other books recommended for PMI-ACP preparation.
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Harley Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and useful description of Agile principles
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2017
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This is a well done text and proved very useful for preparation to take the Project Management Institute (PMI) Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) exam, which I passed.
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Linda Curnow
4.0 out of 5 stars Agile Project Management
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2013
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The book covered the topics I required and was fairly easy to read.

It is a long time since I read a textbook and it was a good book to re-introduce learning.
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davrober
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding foundation book for Agile and why it makes a difference
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2012
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Jim has written a comprehensive 100 level text for anyone considering Agile. I will be looking for a book that discusses the transformation of business leadership to support agile. Without a solid business user who can, and is will to, drive "sprints" and product valuation you will have a challenging experience with agile.
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Marius Francu
5.0 out of 5 stars I do not regret a moment that I bought it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2019
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Jim Highsmith was in that meeting were agile term was coined. He represented the complex adaptive systems approach, if I can say so. This is not the only book he wrote, I think all of his books should be read. There are so many things I loved in this book. The first time I read it was more than 10 years ago. Last year I decided to read it again. I was amazed to see how many concepts from this book influenced me. I think that all people looking for agile info should read this book. Is very actual.
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N. Murali Mohan
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb book
Reviewed in India on February 21, 2018
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Too good. It's THE most comprehensive book on Agile. A must read for all Agile practitioners. All the explanations are driven with logic and examples and hence one need not try to read it 'n' times to understand the gist. Now I am purchasing all the other authors' books - honest.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Veramente un bel testo
Reviewed in Italy on August 28, 2016
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Non funzionale alla certificazione pmi-acp ma da leggere se si desidera comprendere le basi della metodologia. Io mi sono appassionata.
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