Fundamentals of Agile Project Management

Acknowledgement Dedication Chapter 1 A Case for Agile; Changing Landscape of Project Management; Why Projects Fail; Case Example; Is “Work the Plan and Plan the Work” Obsolete?; Assembling a Jigsaw Puzzle; Do We Still Need Project Managers?; Agile Benefits. Chapter 2 Agile Methods; Overview; Principles of Agile Development; Extreme Programming (XP); Whole Team; Planning Game; Small Releases; Customer Tests; Test-Driven Development (TDD); Metaphor; Pair Programming; Collective Ownership; Simple Design; Continuous Integration; Refactoring; Coding Standard; Sustainable Pace; Scrum; Open UP; Lean Programming; Eliminate Waste; Amplify Learning; Decide as Late as Possible; Deliver as Fast as Possible; Empower the team; Build integrity; See the whole; Feature-Driven Development (FDD); Domain Object Modeling; Developing by Feature; Individual Class (Code) Ownership; Feature Teams; Inspections; Regular Builds; Configuration Management; Reporting/Visibility of Results; Dynamic System Development Method; Pre-project; Project Life-cycle; Post-project; Crystal Clear; Frequent Delivery; Reflective Improvement; Osmotic Communication; Personal Safety; Focus; Easy Access to Expert Users; Technical Environment. Chapter 3 Scrum Demystified; What is Scrum; The Scrum Process; Key Artifacts of the Scrum Process; Product Backlog; Release; Sprint; Story Cards; Sprint Backlog; Daily Scrum; Burndown Chart; The Roles on Scrum Teams; The Product Owner; The Team; The Scrum Master; Scrum in Non-IT context. Chapter 4 Conventional versus Agile Project Management; Overview; Is Agile Enough?; The APM Planning Framework; The Conventional Way: Optimization versus Adaptation; Project Life Cycle Comprises of Seven Phases; Built for Known Functionality; Focus on Optimization Rather than Adaptation; Change is More an Exception than the Norm; Tendency for a Predictable Future (lifetime); Matured Technologies; The APM Way: Adaptation versus Optimization; No Time for “Ready,” It Is Always on “Fire...”; Projects are “Research-like” But Yet “Mission-critical” ; Not Sure of Lifetime; Risk-driven; Breakthrough and Evolving Technologies. Chapter 5 A Business Case for Agile Project Management; Overview; A Word about VPM and ePM; The Globalization of Markets and Projects; The Rise of Third World and Closed Economies; Corporate Downsizing; Effects of Corporate Downsizing in Agile PM; APM Can Mitigate Project Downsizing; APM Mitigates Scope Changes; Agile PM Framework for Reallocation of Resources. Chapter 6 Trends, Camps and Collisions; Overview; The Project Management Bodies of Knowledge; What is a BoK?; Why is a BoK Important for APM?; BoKs and Body of Competencies; How Many BoKs are there?; Issues in Creating a Valid (Global) BoK; The Future; Trend: How Much Your Time is Worth; Improving Time Management with APM; The 80:20 Rule; To Clone or Not to Clone?; Agile PMs as Visionary Leaders; Trend: The APM Vision. References About the Authors