July 2025
Beginner
496 pages
13h 12m
English
book
Agile Project Management For Dummies, 4th Edition
by Mark C. Layton, Steven J. Ostermiller, Dean J. Kynaston
Overview
Put agile techniques into practice to boost your efficiency and effectiveness
Agile Project Management For Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry—not just software development—agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. This book lays out the principles and practices of agile techniques in jargon-free language that anyone can understand. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away. Create a product roadmap and prepare for product launches with ease, thanks to this Dummies guide.
- Discover why agile techniques are so popular with many of the world's most successful businesses
- Use agile principles to manage the scope, time, cost, team dynamics, quality, and risk of any project
- Learn how Inclusion makes organizations more agile, and create an agile-friendly culture of flexibility and productivity within your team and organization
- Explore how the agile world is changing with new developments like artificial intelligence
Agile Project Management For Dummies is great for project and product managers, as well as anyone in any industry who wants get up to speed on how to be more agile.
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