{"product_id":"9781484216798","title":"Agile Development in the Real World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a practical guide for new agile practitioners and contains everything a new project manager needs to know to get up to speed with agile practices quickly and sort out the hype and dogma of pseudo-agile practices.The author lays out the general guidelines for running an agile project with the assumption that the project team may be working in a traditional environment (using the waterfall model, or something similar).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgile Development in the Real World\u003c\/em\u003e conveys valuable insights to multiple audiences: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor new-to-agile project managers, this book provides a distinctive approach that Alan Cline has used with great success, while showing the decision points and perspectives as the agile project moves forward from one step to the next. This allows new agile project managers or agile coaches to choose between the benefits of agile and the benefits of other methods.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor the agile technical team member, this book contains templates and sample project artifacts to assist in learning agile techniques and to be used as exemplars for the new practitioner’s own project.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor the Project Management Office (PMO), the first three chapters focus on portfolio management. They explain, for the agilists’ benefit, how projects are selected and approved, and why projects have an inherent \"shelf-life\" that results in hard deadlines that may seem arbitrary to traditional technical teams.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWhat you’ll learn\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow and why the evolution of project management, from PM-1 (prescriptive) to PM-2 (adaptive) affects modern 21st century project management. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow sociology (stakeholder management), psychology (team dynamics), and anthropology (organizational culture) affect the way software is developed today, and why it is far more effective \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA clear delineation of what must to be accomplished by all the roles (PM, BA, APM, Developer, and Tester), why those roles are needed, and what they must do\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStep-by-step guide for a successful project based on studies and the author’s own experiences.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecific techniques for each role on the development team, both in the pre-iteration and iteration cycles, of product development. The appendices contain templates that the team could use or modify to tailor their own agile processes specific to the team, project, and organization.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWho this book is for      \u003cp\u003e     \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is intended for project managers, technical team members and technical managers. It makes clear what agile is, and what agile is not and how Agile contributes significant business value.\u003c\/p\u003e      ","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162403160304,"sku":"9781484216798","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781484216798_p0.jpg?v=1763632040","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781484216798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}