Managing Agile Projects

Chapter 1. Agile Project Management Defined

Shrinking budgets. Shorter delivery cycles. Savvy, demanding customers. Independent team members. Increasingly complex technology. Constant need for innovation. Global competition. Corporate politics. Organizational dependencies. Downsizing. Most project managers I encounter nowadays are beleaguered, overworked, and stressed because of their many pressing responsibilities. Some of them are required to deliver results in the face of shorter delivery cycles while dealing with demanding customers, bloated processes and controls, shrinking budgets, and corporate politics. Others need to innovate constantly in the face of global competition while managing downsized teams working with increasingly complex ...