Agile Development in the Real World [Paperback]

This book is a practical guide for new agile practitioners and containseverything a new project manager needs to know to get up to speed withagile practices quickly and sort out the hype and dogma of pseudo-agilepractices.The author lays out the general guidelines for running anagile project with the assumption that the project team may be workingin a traditional environment (using the waterfall model, or somethingsimilar).

Agile Development in the Real World conveys valuable insights to multiple audiences:

• Fornew-to-agile project managers, this book provides a distinctiveapproach that Alan Cline has used with great success, while showing thedecision points and perspectives as the agile project moves forward fromone step to the next. This allows new agile project managers or agilecoaches to choose between the benefits of agile and the benefits ofother methods.
• For the agile technical team member, this book containstemplates and sample project artifacts to assist in learning agiletechniques and to be used as exemplars for the new practitioners ownproject.
• For the Project Management Office (PMO), the firstthree chapters focus on portfolio management. They explain, for theagilists benefit, how projects are selected and approved, and whyprojects have an inherent shelf-life that results in hard deadlinesthat may seem arbitrary to traditional technical teams.