Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes on Agile Project Management
Many successful digital products have evolved haphazardly over the years, accumulating messy architecture and code that require extensive rewrite efforts to sustain reliability and innovation velocity in the long term. We outline pragmatic steps for refactoring platforms.
The title of the book “A Coach’s Guide to Training Scrum” is a form of understatement. If it actually provides some guidance about training people to Scrum, this book contains actually a complete step-by-step course to teach Scrum that an Agile coach could use “as is”.
MVP or minimum viable product is a test of a hypothesis about the value of a product to the user. MVP allows you to quickly and cost-effectively test an idea to see if the market needs such a product.
What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. Mary and Tom Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book “Leading Lean Software Development” achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read.
The Definition of Done (DoD) is a common understanding within the Scrum team on what it takes to make your software ready to be released. In their book “Managing the Unmanageable”, Mickey Mantle and Ron Lichty propose an extensive list of what a Definition of Done should include.
Every business needs effective project management to fulfill its mission and goals, whether a small-town bakery or a tech giant at the forefront of innovation. Seamless project execution and the capacity to pivot quickly in response to market needs have become the foundation of long-term success.
The goal of the book “Lean-Agile Software Development – Achieving Enterprise Agility” by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver and James R. Trott, is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development.
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