Book Description
The Project Management Institute and Agile Alliance® leased this observation guide to making a bigger understanding of agile approaches in their communities. The vision for this observation guide is to equip the project teams with tools, tips, situational guidelines, and an understanding of the available agile techniques and approaches to enable higher results.
Project teams are using agile approaches in a variety of industries beyond software development. Both organizations realize that expansion has created a need for a common language, open-mindedness, and the willingness to be flexible in how products and deliverables are brought to market. In addition, both organizations realize there are multiple ways to achieve successful delivery.
There is a broad range of tools, techniques, and frameworks; teams have choices for approaches and practices that fit their project and the organizational culture in order to achieve the desired outcome.
The Agile Practice Guide core committee members are from varying backgrounds and use various approaches. Some of the committee members are consultants and some work inside organizations. All have labored agile ways for many years.
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Agile Practice Guide! This guide was developed as a collaborative effort by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Agile Alliance®. The members of the core writing team who developed this practice guide included volunteers from both organizations, drawing on subject matter expertise from a broad range of current practitioners and leaders from a diverse range of backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
This practice guide provides practical guidance geared toward project leaders and team members adapting to an agile approach to planning and executing projects. While our core writing team recognizes there is staunch support to use predictive approaches and conversely, passion around shifting to an agile mindset, values, and principles, this practice guide covers a practical approach to project agility. This practice guide represents a bridge to understanding the pathway from a predictive approach to an agile approach. In fact, there are similar activities between the two, such as planning, that are handled differently but occurs in both environments.
Our core writing team used an agile mindset to collaborate and manage the development of this first edition of the practice guide. As technology and culture change, future updates and refinements to the practice guide will reflect current approaches.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- AN INTRODUCTION TO AGILE
- LIFE CYCLE SELECTION
- IMPLEMENTING AGILE: CREATING AN AGILE ENVIRONMENT
- IMPLEMENTING AGILE: DELIVERING IN AN AGILE ENVIRONMENT
- ORGANIZATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PROJECT AGILITY
- A CALL TO ACTION
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