Managing Agile Projects

Foreword

Pragmatics! That's what this series is about, and that's what this book is about. There have been several good books published about project management in an agile environment, but this is the first book I've read that gets down in the trenches and tells us how to actually do it in detail.

Pragmatics is what we need in this topic. We've read the fluffy overviews and the motivating abstractions. We've heard the arguments, exegesis, and hand-waving pitches. What we haven't seen, until now, is a description of Agile Project Management with a solid foundation based on experience. That's what this book provides.

This book begins with the story of a project that began with traditional project management techniques, failed, and then was restarted ...