If you have an expertise in Agile Project Management, then probably you need to put your hands on some advanced book as this is meant for the rookies, starters, and beginners in Agile Project Management. But even if you are a professional and an expert on the subject, this book promises to provide you ample tips to enhance your skills. As the name Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide: A Simplified Beginners Guide to Agile Project Management suggests, it is meant to guide beginners in a very simplified manner telling you all about how to manage your projects in an Agile way.
I prefer audio books these days so as to keep listening to them when being on the move/driving or sitting in a lounge waiting for some business meeting to happen. The audiobook is from ClydeBank Business and its narration by Dave Barron. Narration, voice, and interpretations are quite impressive and easy to understand. Duration of the book is almost 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Just keep one thing in mind if you are listening to this in the audiobook format. Go back and listen again if you skipped few lines or paragraphs or a chapter rather than continuing listening. It is always good to keep previous lesions intact in mind while moving further. Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide is having a professional approach to make one understand it well. It tells you the fundamental difference between traditional project methodologies like waterfall approach and the modern agile project management methodology.
Agile Project Management Is A Powerful Concept
Agile project methodology always helps your project(s) to stay on track and achieve planned targets in terms of financials, timelines, and deliveries; without compromising quality. Noticeably, Agile project management or agile methodology permits you to entertain as many changes in the customer requirements as you wish as the crux of the game lies on iterations that are small but measurable. The customer engagement is important. It has to be throughout all iterations. In fact, after any iteration, there has to be a couple of sign-offs. First sign off is the successful completion of the current iteration. And the second sign off is close next iteration’s requirements after revaluation with the customer. Remember this before you kick-off its development.
Before you adopt Agile Project Management, it is important to learn its basics. These basics in this book are thus important to create a strong foundation. Understanding the strategies and tools is an important factor before you jump into the real world of Agile Project Management. The book helps you understand all this in a simplified manner with the help of some good case studies. As the book states, it is important for a project manager to be well organized, having a practical approach and, stay specific & crisp for managing a project in an agile way. The step by step building up approach taken in the book in a precise manner is good in understanding the subject while elevating the level of learning.
Agile Project Management Relates Very Well With Current Day Projects
Before you finish this book you will learn all the relevant terms and their significance in agile life. Few words like scrum, iterations or chunks, standing meeting, burn chart and so on, you will understand while listening to the various chapters of this book. Total 10 chapters are full of wisdom and a great learning. Chapter 1 starts with the basics of project management explaining what project management is and what its need is. Then, chapter 2 goes with the history of Agile Project Management. And then, chapter 3 brings the Agile Project Management on the table. Here your real journey of understanding the subject begins.
And so it goes up to the chapter 10 telling about agile sub-industry. That consists of agile professionals and their official activities. Definitely, you require a different kind of discipline to imbibe it in your teams. It is always beneficial to follow agile project management. And for that, you need to have a thorough knowledge of the subject.