Agile Practice Guide
About this book
Produced jointly by PMI and the Agile Alliance as a bridge between traditional project management and agile ways of working. It covers the agile mindset, the selection of a life cycle across predictive, iterative, incremental and agile approaches, and how to introduce agile practices into an organisation that runs on gates and portfolio reporting. There are sections on the common agile methods, on measurement in a team that works in short cycles, and on the organisational impediments that quietly stop delivery from changing. An appendix maps the material back to the PMBOK Guide, which is what makes it useful to a project manager working in both worlds. It is also the companion text for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner examination.
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- The project manager on an adaptive teamWhere the project manager's accountability goes when a team is self managing and the work is ordered by somebody else, and what the role does that nobody else on an adaptive team is doing.
- Tailoring the approachDeciding which practices, artefacts and controls a particular project will use, at what formality, and being able to say why each one earns its place.
- Agile contractingHow a commercial agreement is written when the scope is expected to change, and the mechanisms that let a buyer keep control of cost without fixing the scope in advance.
- Integrated change controlWhy a change to a baseline is a decision, the path a change request takes from submission to a reissued baseline, who may approve one and how the same problem appears on adaptive work.
- Iterative and incremental deliveryA fixed cadence, a variable scope and a usable result at the end of every cycle, together with the events that make the loop work and the reason each of them is timeboxed.
- Choosing a delivery approachPredictive, adaptive and hybrid describe positions on a range, and what places work on that range is requirement stability, feedback, constraint and the cost of a wrong turn.
- Hybrid delivery in practiceCombining predictive and adaptive elements on one project, the patterns that work, and the seams between them where most hybrid arrangements actually fail.