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
––WAV offers downloadable whitepapers that discuss the dynamic systems development method, agile quality drivers, the applicability of agile on DoD projects, and an agile slide presentation available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com

About the Author:

John C. Goodpasture, PMP, has engineering degrees from both Georgia Tech and the University of Maryland and broad practical experience in executive management, project management, systems engineering, and operations analysis. Mr. Goodpasture is currently the Managing Principal at Square Peg Project Management Consulting and he gained his previous practitioner experience as a strategic project office director and systems engineering program director for Harris Corporation, as a program manager for the U.S. Department of Defense, and as vice president at a large document imaging company. He is a sought–after speaker and author of the one–of–a–kind book, Quantitative Methods in Project Management.