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AGILE Project Management

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  • 28-11-2011 10:12pm
    #1
    9fcdhzkx46apgr
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    Hi everyone,
    Can anyone recommend any good books in relation to AGILE Project Management, specifically for investment banking / financial services?
    Thanks


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    #2
    9fcdhzkx46apgr
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    Anyone have any recommendations?


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    way2tall
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    I think that probably you should try and get your hands on a book by Ken Schwaber (sp?) Agile Project Management with Scrum ..

    If you are coming from a traditional project management backround (PMP, PRINCE) etc .. you might get more value if you look at some of the stuff the PMI has done about AGile Methods..

    I think that it is often important to understand that Agile is a very broad church - there are lots of techniques, tools, frameworks and methodologies that fall in to 'Agile'

    I think it is useful to understand WHY agile techniques can be appropriate or might work and the history behind the Agile philosophy .. A great starting point is the Agile Manifesto ..

    Often organizations will craft and agile approach that blends different aspects of agile to suit their business and their teams - I don't know if there is an Agile APproach that is specific to finance .. I imagine that there are many organizations using a variation of Agile and trying to meld that with a strictly regulated environment and that there maybe books on this topic in particular - I have not come across any yet ..

    Key advice - learn and understand the philosophy and then your existing project management skills / training and knowledge will help inform you about how you might approach projects

    Others might argue an all or nothing approach .. as I said Agile is a broad church :-)

    Hope this is useful


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    9fcdhzkx46apgr
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    Hi there,
    Thanks for your reply. I will check the book out. I have executed all my projects to date using a traditional waterfall approach so I'm interested to see the benefits of AGILE in a finance environment.
    Are you an experience AGILE PM? How do you deal with maintaining documentation such as requirements, technical requirements, etc… when you turn around development in such a tight delivery time frame (e.g. 2 weeks)? Have you used Quality Centre to assist with this?


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    Merrion
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    I'd recommend doing training - once you have played "the planning game" you will properly understand the why of Agile.


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