Breaking the Addiction to Process: An Introduction to Agile Project Management - Brossura

Thomas, Elizabeth Scanlon

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ISBN 10: 1849281769 ISBN 13: 9781849281768

Casa editrice: It Governance Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Breaking the Addiction to Process will give you a clear understanding of the way Agile works and how it can improve your business practices. It explains how Agile will help you to improve your relationships with your customers, to work more efficiently with your colleagues and to develop more streamlined and successful working practices, saving you time and money.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas is a creative communication and documentation specialist with 14 years’ experience developing and maintaining user-information products. She is a member of the Nokia Agile Community and the London Agile Community. She works as a documentation manager at Nokia, having begun her career in advertising and marketing before moving into writing in IT.

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We live and work in an age in which clients’ needs change rapidly. Deadlines are becoming shorter, and the relative inflexibility of existing development methodologies is increasingly causing difficulties. The risk of failure of projects undertaken using these systems is growing. Modern processes need to be fast-moving and adaptable in order to cope with the pace of business today.

Agile development methods offer this flexibility, and their emphasis on incremental testing allows maximum adaptability, giving you the tools you need to meet your customers’ needs efficiently and cost-effectively.

Breaking the Addiction to Process will give you a clear understanding of the way Agile works and how it can improve your business practices. It explains how Agile will help you to improve your relationships with your customers, to work more efficiently with your colleagues and to develop more streamlined and successful working practices, saving you time and money.

This practical twelve-step guide is clearly written and offers simple solutions to age-old problems. Agile is a flexible, adaptable system and this book will help you to implement it for maximum impact and success for your business.

About the author

Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas is a member of the Nokia Agile Community and the London Agile Community. She is a documentation manager at Nokia, having begun her career in advertising and marketing before moving into writing in IT.

‘I wish I’d had this book before I started thinking seriously about Agile’ (Steve Borthwick, Artesian Solutions).

This book is a must read for every project manager, developer and even engineers and workers …’ >(Varinder Kumar, IRIS Business Services Limited, India).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: It Governance Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1849281769
• ISBN 13: 9781849281768
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 136
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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