Agile Productivity Unleashed, Second Edition

Description

Benefits of Agile for your organisation:

• Proven methods for meeting every project deadline
• More accurate status reporting with substantially less paperwork
• A highly responsive adaptive management framework with minimal overheads
• Greater staff motivation, innovation, and value creation
• Significantly more efficient use of limited resources and time
• Strategies for leveraging internal and external changes in the organization, including changing market conditions
• Better customer relationships, more compelling product development and higher quality outputs through direct stakeholder engagement
• More effective use of available budgets to deliver real productivity gains across a range of business activities.

The key business value of 12 Agile Principles explained

Agile Productivity Unleashed presents the range of proven Agile methods including Scrum^®, Kanban, Feature Driven Development^™ (FDD^™) and the Dynamic Systems Development Method^® (DSDM^®) in clear business language. The author then devotes a chapter to explaining each of the 12 Agile Principles that make these approaches consistently successful, and details how to use these methods to tackle the core challenges faced by every organization.

Will it work for me?

The book concludes by presenting an in-depth case study that compares Agile with traditional approaches for achieving three common business objectives, followed by step-by-step guidelines to make Agile work for your organization, and a range of resources for further reading.

Contents

1. Agile in a Nutshell
2. Why is Agile So Effective?
3. Why Don't More Organizations Use Agile?
4. Agile Sounds Good, But...
5. Responsive Planning
6. Business-value-driven Work
7. Hands-on Business Outputs
8. Real-time Customer Feedback
9. Immovable Deadlines
10. Management by Self-motivation
11. "Just-in-time" Communication
12. Immediate Status Tracking
13. Waste Management
14. Constantly Measurable Quality
15. Rearview Mirror Checking
16. Continuous Improvement
17. Selecting Agile Approaches That Best Meet Your Needs
18. Introducing Agile Within Your Org
19. Expanding the Use of Agile in Your Organization

About the Author

Jamie Lynn Cooke has 24 years of experience as a senior business analyst and solutions consultant, working with more than 130 public and private sector organizations throughout Australia, Canada and the United States. She has been working hands on with Agile approaches since 2003. 

The first edition of Agile Productivity Unleashed won the AXIOM Business Book Awards Bronze Medal for TQM/Productivity Books in 2011

Customer Reviews

(5.00)stars out of 5

# of Ratings: 1

1. Colin on 17/09/2014, said:

5 stars out of 5

... an excellent guide; well structured, well written... It should light many fires in senior management's minds when they think of the problems their projects have had.