Book description
Agile development processes foster better collaboration, innovation, and results. So why limit their use to software projects—when you can transform your entire business?
Written by agile-mentoring expert Jochen Krebs, this book illuminates the opportunities—and rewards—of applying agile processes to your overall IT portfolio.
Whether project manager, business analyst, or executive—you’ll understand the business drivers behind agile portfolio management. And learn best practices for optimizing results.
Use agile processes to align IT and business strategy
Adapt and extend core agile processes
Orchestrate the collaboration between IT and business vision
Eliminate wish-list driven requirements, and manage expectations instead
Optimize the balance of projects, resources, and assets in your portfolio
Use metrics to communicate project status, quality, even team morale
Create a portfolio strategy consistent with the goals of the organization
Achieve organizational and process transparency
Manage your business with agility—and help maximize the returns!
Table of contents
- Praise for Agile Project Management
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Agile for Managers
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II. Defining, Planning, and Measuring Portfolios
- 4. Foundation
- 5. Metrics
- 6. Return on Investment
- 7. Project Portfolio Management
- 8. Resource Portfolio Management
- 9. Asset Portfolio Management
- 10. Portfolios in Action
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III. Organization and Environment
- 11. Portfolio Management Using Scrum
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12. Project Management Office
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The Challenges of Managing Agile Projects
- Agile Project Teams Are Empowered and Self-Organized
- Agile Processes Are Empirical
- Milestones Monitoring vs. Progress Reporting
- Best Practices for Project Management
- Defining the Roles and Responsibilities of an Agile PMO
- The PMO and Portfolio Management
- Choosing the Right Tool for the Agile Job
- Overhead and Profits
- Applying Models, Standards, and Regulations in an Agile Environment
- Getting the Most from Your PMO
- Summary
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The Challenges of Managing Agile Projects
- Additional Resources
- Jochen Krebs
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Agile Portfolio Managment
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2008
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735625679
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