Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (2nd Edition)

ISBN: 0321658396
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 96

Authors: Jim Highsmith

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The Agile Revolution

• Innovative Product Development
• Reliable Innovation
• Core Agile Values
• Agile Project Management
• Thriving in a Chaordic World
• Our Journey

Guiding Principles: Customers and Products

• Herman and Maya
• The Guiding Principles of Agile Project Management
• Deliver Customer Value
• Employ Iterative, Feature-Based Delivery
• Champion Technical Excellence
• Customers and Products

Guiding Principles: Leadership-Collaboration Management

• Management Style
• The Business of APM
• Leadership-Collaboration Management
• Encourage Exploration
• Build Adaptive (Self Organizing, Self Disciplined) Teams
• Simplify
• Principles to Practices

An Agile Project Management Model

• Principles and Practices
• An Agile Process Framework
• Phase: Envision
• Phase: Speculate
• Phase: Explore
• Phase: Adapt
• Phase: Close
• Judgment Required
• Project Size
• Agile Practices

The Envision Phase

• Get the Right People
• Phase: Envision
• Practice: Product Vision Box and Elevator Test Statement
• Practice: Product Architecture
• Practice: Project Data Sheet
• Practice: Get the Right People
• Practice: Participant Identification
• Practice: Customer Team-Developer Team Interface
• Practice: Process and Practice Tailoring
• Envision Summary

The Speculate Phase

• Scope Evolution
• Phase: Speculate
• Practice: Product Feature List
• Practice: Feature Cards
• Practice: Performance Requirements Cards
• Practice: Release, Milestone, and Iteration Plan
• Speculate Summary

The Explore Phase

• Individual Performance
• Phase: Explore
• Practice: Workload Management
• Practice: Low-Cost Change
• Practice: Coaching and Team Development
• Practice: Daily Team Integration Meetings
• Practice: Participatory Decision Making
• Practice: Daily Interaction with the Customer Team
• Explore Summary

The Adapt and Close Phases

• Progress
• Phase: Adapt
• Practice: Product, Project, and Team Review and Adaptive Action
• Phase: Close
• Adapt and Close Summary

Building Large Adaptive Teams

• An Achilles Heel?
• The Scaling Challenge
• A Scaled Adaptive Framework
• A Hub Organizational Structure
• Self-Organization Extensions
• Team Self-Discipline
• The Commitment-Accountability Protocol
• Is It Working?
• Structure and Tools
• Summary

Reliable Innovation

• The Agile Vision
• Implementing the Vision
• Reliable Innovation