The PRINCE2 Agile(R) Practical Implementation Guide - Step-by-step advice for every project type, Second edition This guide explains how the structured, management-driven PRINCE2 project governance framework can work cohesively with team-driven, quality-focused, responsive Agile methods. This guide provides an overview of PRINCE2(R) and Agile before detailing the combined PRINCE2 Agile governance and project management framework. It also provides expert guidance on how to implement the PRINCE2 Agile framework in your organization, whether you have existing PRINCE2, Agile or waterfall structures in place, or you are implementing PRINCE2 Agile with no pre-existing frameworks. The key to successfully implementing PRINCE2 Agile is understanding how it brings together PRINCE2 and Agile best practices into a cohesive framework, and how to adapt that framework to meet your organization's specific needs. This guide is structured to provide you with the core information that you need to understand how PRINCE2 Agile works, and implementation guidelines aligned to the needs of your organization and your projects. Ideal for PRINCE2 Agile students, project managers, IT managers, senior managers, PRINCE2 users and Agile users, this guide will help you to successfully deliver high business value outcomes within the PRINCE2 Agile framework. This guide is aligned to the official PRINCE2 Agile(R) guide, Third impression. PRINCE2(R) is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved. This book is an official AXELOS licensed product.

In this new edition of her award-winning book, Jamie Lynn Cooke explains the principles of Agile, shows why it works, and demonstrates how to use Agile to significantly increase productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction in any industry. It shows how Agile approaches can give you a faster, more flexible and highly responsive framework, allowing your organisation to leverage internal and external changes more quickly; significantly more efficient use of resources and time, freeing up staff for greater innovation and value creation; direct stakeholder engagement, resulting in better customer relationships and more compelling product development. Written for managers and business professionals, the book presents a range of proven Agile methods including Scrum, Kanban, Feature Driven Development and the Dynamic Systems Development Method in clear business language. The author then devotes a chapter to each of the 12 Agile principles that make these approaches consistently successful, and details how to use these methods to tackle the core challenges faced by every organization. The book concludes with in-depth case study that compares Agile with traditional approaches for achieving three common business objectives, followed by step-by-step guidelines to making Agile work for your organization, and a range of resources for further reading. Read this book and learn how to unleash the potential of Agile in your organization.

If the goal of an Agile project is to deliver the highest business value solution possible, why is the business user the least supported member of the Agile team? It's good to be an Agile developer. The Agile community provides Agile developers with countless supporting resources including books, websites, forums, and conferences where Agile development issues can be raised, discussed, and jointly addressed by the group. The interesting thing is that, where Agile approaches go to great lengths to provide developers with the foundation they need to deliver high-value software solutions, there is relatively little equivalent support provided for the business users. In most Agile methods, the business user is solely responsible for the identification, requirements gathering, clarification, and assignment of priorities for their requested system capabilities. Agile development teams rely on business users having sufficient knowledge, vision, objectivity, and time to ensure that these capabilities provide the best possible solution. The Power of the Agile Business Analyst: 30 surprising ways a business analyst can add value to your Agile development team challenges whether Agile projects are truly positioned to deliver the highest-value business solutions without offering business users the equivalent level of support, validation, and collaboration that is provided for the Agile development team. To address this challenge, The Power of the Agile Business Analyst proposes including an Agile business analyst on the development team to provide business users with the support they need, as well as a valuable resource to assist the Agile developers in their analysis, design, testing, and implementation work throughout the project. 30 ways an Agile Business Analyst can help your team Drawing on more than 20 years' experience as a senior business analyst and international solutions consultant, Jamie Lynn Cooke details 30 achievable ways in which Agile business analysts can increase the relevance, quality, and overall business value of your Agile projects. Read this book and learn how to: *Maximize the business value of your Agile solutions. *Leverage the skills, experience, and opportunities an Agile business analyst can bring to your project. *Find the most qualified Agile business analyst to complement your team. *Identify how an Agile business analyst can help you address the most critical challenges on your Agile project. *Use the strengths of an Agile business analyst to position your projects for ongoing funding and executive support. The Power of the Agile Business Analyst also provides guidance for business analysts who want to transition their skills to work most effectively in Agile environments. Bridge the gap between the business users and the Agile development team The Power of the Agile Business Analyst explains how having a skilled business analyst on the Agile team provides business users with peer support for their most critical business requirements, and provides the Agile development team with a business-knowledgeable resource who is available to work hands-on with them throughout the project. These are only some of the ways in which Agile business analysts empower development teams to deliver the most successful Agile solutions. Read this book and discover how an Agile business analyst can significantly increase the value of your solution.

Deliver exceptional results from your IT department using Agile approaches. Agile methodologies and practices have been proven over the past two decades to increase the relevance, quality, flexibility and business value of software solutions. The IT departments of many large and successful organizations (including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and BT) have all delivered productivity gains through the adoption of Agile approaches. It worked for them, but will it work for you? Everything you want to know about Agile is written specifically to address the challenges of implementing Agile within the unique structures, constraints and culture of your organization. It provides you with the information you need to assess whether Agile is right for your department, to select the Agile methodologies and practices that are best suited to your work, to successfully implement these approaches, and to measure the outcomes. Most importantly, this book gives you strategies for aligning Agile work within the reporting, budgeting, staffing and governance constraints of your organization, which is arguably the biggest challenge. Written for executives, IT department managers and other senior decision makers, this book is equally valuable for IT project managers, team leaders and management consultants who want to deliver successful Agile results. Jamie Lynn Cooke has 21 years' experience as a senior business analyst and solutions consultant, and has worked with over 125 public and private sector organizations throughout Australia, Canada and the US. Jamie has been working with Agile methodologies since 2003, and has written several other books on Agile, including Agile Productivity Unleashed and Agile: An Executive Guide: Real results from IT budgets. An essential read for anyone wanting to make Agile work in their organization!