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Managing Agile Projects [book]
[9781895186116] |
$39.95 |
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| by S.J. Parker (Victoria, Australia) |
Date Added: Tuesday 07 July, 2009 |
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I bought this book hoping it would shed some light on things like paired programming, scrum and other agile techniques. It didn't. What it did do was give me a bunch of short, very well written essays on how to run an agile project.
There are so many different voices in this book, with so many papers, that you are bound to find a bunch you really like, and a few you don't. However, the format makes everything tight and digestible. There is no rambling in this book.
If you are thinking of going Agile, or have a bunch of developers who keep using "agile phrases" this is a great book!
One highlight is a negative article, explaining why Agile sucks. It was very brave, and very clever to include this article, and really helped to bring everything into perspective.
P.S. I bough "Extreme Programming Explained" after this, and it really felt flat compared to this. Yes it had more explanation of techniques in XP, but they were not as well explained or as well supported as this book.
Rating:  [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Lisa Cummings, President International Assoc. of MBAs |
Date Added: Monday 23 February, 2009 |
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I wish I had this book when I was a project manager full time. It's something I'll keep on my shelves as a reference manual for years to come. You can read it straight through or pick a section that helps you get unstuck on your current project.
I was having trouble influencing stakeholders, so I dug into the section on agile meetings. What I like about the whole agile approach is that it is about managing change. I often have trouble AFTER the project's end date because the implementation gets taken over semi-reluctantly. Aguanno's techniques help to change that.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by PM World Today (Ishkhan Topalian) |
Date Added: Tuesday 20 May, 2008 |
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Overall, I thought the book was very informative. It dealt with a topic I had not yet read about in my studies of project management. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone interested in learning new methods of project management, especially those who are involved in software engineering.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Pierre Drouin |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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I purchased your book "Managing Agile Projects" and I think it's one of the best ones I have read thus far, and I have a few of those.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Arthur Young, Senior Analyst / Project Manager |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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I've read enough of it to know that it is a valuable addition to the project manager's arsenal, and some of the "war stories" and "lessons learned" certainly correspond to my experiences. I'm happy to recommend it to my colleagues.
Rating:  [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Lasse Koskela, Java Ranch |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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When Kevin asked me if I'd like to review "Managing Agile Projects", I was initially suspicious of how the title would hold up against other titles in this very popular genre. After reading it, I have to say it does so very well. "Managing Agile Projects" is not a book about a methodology. Instead, it looks at agile project management as a whole and offers insights to various aspects of it through the words of a number of well-known authors (all of whom have donated any author royalties from this book to charity!). While the book has been stitched together from a huge cast of authors, the whole really is a well balanced whole although some chapters do stick out from the rest, being rather academic for my taste. The book really is a one-stop shop for describing agile software development to a project manager. It doesn't just run through the usual stuff found in pretty much any book on agile software development but also discusses hot potatoes like fixed-price contracts and documentation. I've read a whole bunch of books on agile software development and I still found plenty of material in this book that made my eyes gleam of new insight. I'm rating this one at no less than 9 horseshoes!
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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