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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Second Edition
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Second Edition

by Jim Highsmith
July 2009
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 53m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 4. Adapting over Conforming

Traditional managers view the plan as the goal, whereas agile leaders view customer value as the goal. If you doubt the former, just look at the definition of “success” from the Standish Group, who has published success (and failure) rates of software projects over a long period of time. Success, per the Standish Group is “the project is completed on time and on budget, with all the features and functions originally specified.”1 This is not a value-based definition but a constraint-based one. Using this definition, then, managers focus on following ...

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