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- The Need for Agile Project Management
- One of the common misperceptions about agile processes is that there is no need for project management, and that agile projects run themselves. It is easy to see how an agile process' use of self-organizing teams, its rapid pace, and the decreased emphasis on detailed plans lead to this perception....
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Project Management in Agile Development Environments
- The fundamentals of good project management remain the same whatever methodology and approach is being used to develop a software product: communicating, building effective teams, planning and monitoring progress. There are however some aspects of the "Agile Mindset" which are important when using Agile methods to deliver the product. Agile...
- Tags: Software, Team, Agile Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Software Development, Project Management, Management, Software/Web Development, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Agile Work Uses Lean Thinking
- Lean and Agile are both methods of improving the effectiveness and performance of work processes. Lean comes primarily from manufacturing and in particular the Toyota Production System. Agile comes primarily from Agile Software Development and Project Management. Agile Work has borrowed heavily from Lean thinking and practices. There are three...
- Tags: Team, Agile Software, Agile Work, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-02-22
- Overview of Agile Management & Development Methods
- This paper presents an overview of Agile Project Management & Development Methods. The paper will describe the deficiency of normal project development processes, who started Agile Management & development method, what is it made up of and who should use it, differences between Agile development processes and normal development processes,...
- Tags: Method, Project Development, Development Method, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-06-27
- Offshore Agile Practice Adopted in CMS Development
- The project's purpose is to add new modules and enhance features for the proprietary CMS application, and create highly customized commercial partner portals for customers that need service in the domain of incentive and reward mechanisms to influence their employees' performance and thus achieve profitability and retention. The project has...
- Tags: Offshore, Project, Team, Partnership, Content Management System, Content Management, Business Structures, Team Management, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Internet
- White papers 2007-06-29
- Develop an agile approach to IT project management
- This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. Learn about the three levels of planning encorporated by agile teams:...
- Tags: Team, Information Technology, Prentice Hall Inc., IT Project Management, Team Management, Management
- Book chapters 2006-04-28
- Successful Project Management Using Agile Methodology
- A methodology is a set of guidelines or principles that can be tailored and applied to a specific situation. In a project environment, these guidelines might be a list of things to do. A methodology could also be a specific approach, templates, forms, and even checklists used over the project...
- Tags: Methodology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Adopting Agile Development, Part 3: The Role of Agile Stakeholders
- Part 1 of this series introduced agile processes, the benefits of using them, and the requirements placed on the organization that uses them. Part 2 discusses how different types of organizations, such as start-ups, product companies, and small and large organizations, adapt to agile development. This paper discusses the different...
- Tags: Stakeholder, Software Development, Development Tools, Benefits, Software/Web Development, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-05-20
- Change is inevitable, respond to it positively through agile project management
- Agile Development and Management Exposes RealityThe biggest shock that comes from adopting agile methods is that it exposes the true nature of project work.Projects do not neatly progress from phase to phase; it is not similar to climbing stairs or going down the famous waterfall. A lot of project...
- Tags: Agile Development, agile management, agile project management, it management, project management, team, Wayne M.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-26
- Just Enough Agile: Understand the Principles of Agile Development From the Executive Viewpoint
- The goal of this white paper is to explain and demystify agile development from an executive viewpoint. It explores the benefits of agile development, debunks the misconceptions that have grown around the approach, provides a primer on key agile terms and concepts and illustrates how agile can work in an...
- Tags: Development, Compuware Corp., Viewpoint Corp., Benefits, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Architectural Manifesto: Adopting Agile Development, Part 1 - Is Agile Development Right for Your Organization?
- As agile development has grown in popularity over the past few years, many companies are considering how to take advantage of agile development processes and techniques. Though the author is not an agile evangelist, agile development techniques have proven to be beneficial in certain types of organizations and projects. Agile...
- Tags: Development, Agile Development, Productivity
- White papers 2008-03-18
- Develop an agile approach to IT project management
- This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. Learn about the three levels of planning encorporated by agile teams: release planning, iteration planning, and daily planning.Title: Agile Estimating and PlanningISBN: 0131479415Published: November 2005Author: Mike CohnChapter: Chapter 3: An Agile ApproachPublished...
- Tags: team, iteration, Planning, Prentice Hall Inc., Agile Estimating, information technology, IT project management, Published
- Download resources 2006-04-28
- Learn how to use an agile Light Touch to manage your project team more effectively
- Most project managers work in a hierarchical organization where assignments come from the top down. In an agile project management environment this hierarchy is counterproductive. The concept of agile project management pivots on the idea that assignments and work flow should be determined by the highly skilled...
- Tags: Team, Prentice Hall Inc., Team Management, Management
- Book chapters 2005-08-12
- Report Project Performance
- Gathering project performance data is critical to measuring project performance, maintaining up-to-date reports, and tracking project status. By using Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 templates, one can easily generate, track, and present his project's performance information and compare planned results against actual results. One can also...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
- Transform your software development and software project management processes by adopting agile methods
- It is not too extreme a statement to say that when it comes to software development and software project management in general, agile changes everything. In this sample chapter from Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, examine new paradigms that real teams are using to...
- Tags: Software, Software Project Management, Addison-Wesley, Project Management, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development, Management
- Book chapters 2007-03-27
- Time Track (zip)
- Time Track will let you keep track of the hours you work on a project. You can now save the project name and you can select it from a dropdown box so you do not need to type the project name every time you are working on that project. You...
- Tags: Project
- Software downloads 2007-05-25
- Avoiding the Four Roadblocks to Agile Adoption
- This webcast will describe Rally's on-demand Web service for managing all aspects of Agile software development. The secure, subscription-based service helps in-house, distributed and outsourced teams more efficiently define, develop and deliver software releases. The webcast will demonstrate how Rally combines Agile project management with an integrated workflow for requirements,...
- Tags: Team, Webcast, Team Management, Digital Media, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Adopting Agile Development, Part 2: Understanding the Different Facets
- Part 1 of the agile development series introduced agile processes, the benefits of using them, and the requirements placed on the organization that uses them. This paper discusses how different types of organizations, such as start-ups, product companies, and small and large organizations, adapt to agile development. One will also...
- Tags: Organization, IBM Corp., Pricing, Marketing Research, Benefits, Marketing, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-04-22
- Pros and cons of different project development methodologies
- Hi, I am doing some research on different project development methodologies and am interested in understanding the pros and cons. I can see lots of info on the waterfall method and its +/- but am struggling to find similar info on other methodologies. (When would you choose one methodology over...
- Tags: Project management, fred.ingram@..., Agile, benefit, project development
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
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