''Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products'' by
Jim Highsmith discusses the management of projects using the
agile software development
In software development, agile (sometimes written Agile) practices include requirements discovery and solutions improvement through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams with their customer(s)/ end user(s), ...
methodology. The book has been recommended by different reviewers.
The book starts off by stating that new challenges in product development require adaptive, not anticipatory,
project management
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...
. It then introduces the reader to the basic agile values as written in the
Agile Manifesto, and to the six guiding principles of agile project management. Next, the agile project management framework is broken down into five project phases and discussed in detail. Lastly, the book ends by talking about the scaling of agile project management approaches and the cultural changes required to continuously produce desired results when using agile practices. It uses a variety of examples from different industries as illustrations.
The book was a finalist for
CMP Media's
Jolt Awards
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in 2005, but did not win anything.
References
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2004 non-fiction books
Business books