Agile Project Management: Beginner's Guide to Agile Operations and Methodologies for Quality Control

Summary

Are you new to project management or looking to solidify your understanding of the agile project management? Then this is just the book you have been looking for! The book was carefully written to help you gain a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts of agile project management that have evolved as the new backbone of the software development life cycle. To make software development projects more flexible with high efficiency, the agile project management was introduced in the last decade and has quickly evolved as the new industry standard for project management. Some of the giants of Silicon Valley, such as Apple, Google, and Facebook, have become the epitome of how agile practices should be applied to efficiently deliver high quality software solutions in a short period of time. Think of agile method as one project containing smaller projects within itself containing a backlog of requirements that need to be implemented, tested, and deployed within the predefined scope of the project.  Nearly every company today claims that they are agile without substantially utilizing the true agile values and principles, so it is critical to have a solid understanding of these principles. The flexibility and versatility offered by the agile framework allow it to be used for day to day operations and functioning of non-technical teams just as effectively. The truly agile development teams tend to grow rapidly due to the growing success of agile practices and the increasing demands of the customers. As a result, the need to implement agile methodologies on a larger scale would also increase. This book will help you gain a thorough understanding of the project management methodologies focused on the agile framework and provide you some of the most frequently used programming practices that help to improve software quality, usability, and longevity.  Here are some of the highlights of this book: Learn the five different phases of standard project management, including Waterfall methodologies. Learn the history of how Agile project management came into being with the publication of the “Agile Manifesto.” Detailed overview of the agile development cycle and come of the most popular Agile Frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid, Lean, Bimodal, and XP. Deep dive into the 12 agile principles and their relevance in the current software development trend. A number of agile best practices and techniques for development such as test-driven development, code refactoring, continual implementation, basic code architecture, pair programming, common coding framework, among others. Learn how agile practices can be applied to non-software development enterprise projects. The pros and cons of agile project management methodologies. Remember, knowledge is power, and with the great power, you will gather from this book, you will be armed to make sound personal and professional technological choices. Your understanding of agile project management and software development life cycle will improve drastically and you will be poised to successfully manage your software and non-software projects by delivering high quality product in a timely and efficient manner! So, be a good Samaritan, and spread the word to your tech-savvy friends and family, help them get access to this power!

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