Project Management the Agile Way: Making It Work in the Enterprise

Project Management the Agile Way is for experienced project managers, system engineers, architects, and business analysts who are comfortable in traditional methods of project management, but now need to understand how to make agile work effectively in the enterprise. This book presents practical, day-to-day tips and application advice for how to harmonize agile methods with mainstream project processes and how to integrate these practices with other methodologies used in the business.

Key Features

Details most of the popular agile and iterative methodologies for project management, such as Scrum, XP, Crystal and EVO

Explains how to scale agile methods for enterprise projects and provides guidance on how to build a business case and track post-project benefits

Describes how earned value can work with untraditional methods

Shows the means to contract and outsource with agile methods

WV offers downloadable whitepapers that discuss the dynamic systems development methods, agile quality drivers, the applicability of agile on DoD project, and an agile slide presentation-available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com