Making sense of agile project management : balancing control and agility /
By: Cobb, Charles G
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Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2011Description: xviii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780470943366 (pbk.); 9780470943366:; 047094336X (pbk.).Subject(s): Software engineering | Computer software -- Development -- Management | Agile software developmentDDC classification: 005.1 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Agile values, principles, and practices -- Becoming more agile -- Agile project management -- Fundamental principles behind SDLC [Software Development Life Cycle] models -- Software development life cycles.
"The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to develop a more agile approach and understand how to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies, and practices to create an appropriate balance of control and agility to fit a business environment as well as the risks and complexities of any individual project. The book will also provide business managers and leaders an understanding of how to fit agile methodologies into an overall business strategy that provides the right balance of control and agility for their business"--
Focuses on how agile project management fits with other more traditional project management models to provide a more effective strategy. Includes many cases taken from real-world companies illustrating good and bad agile implementation.