Agile Project Management for Dummies

Mark Layton explains agile clearly, including going into sufficient depth on the background. A personal experience: the book made me realise that an agile 'sprint' is just an iteration in the project making a functionality deliverable. It is meant to proceed at a more sustainable pace than the last......more

Covers everything... over and over and over. It's a very good introduction for people like me, in a legacy tech company in the midst of modernization. I finally understood many buzzwords as actual technical terms belonging to a very specific context. There are plenty of tools and methods to adopt. Usu......more

To some degree, I already use some of the agile principles in my job. One of the principles that I used is "the deliverables should be seen on the first day of the project, the second to the last day of the project is just confirming the deliverables". With this book I learn that to be successfully......more

Does what is says on the box......more

For someone already knowledgable in Scrum and Agile in general, this book does not provide much value other than repetition of the already known. In certain places the book feels like a chase for word count, by re-iterating what's already been said and that makes you want to skip ahead. The book is......more