This book is a practical guide for new agile practitioners and contains everything a new
project manager needs to know to get up to speed with agile practices quickly and sort out the
hype and dogma of pseudo-agile practices.The author lays out the general guidelines for running
an agile project with the assumption that the project team may be working in a traditional
environment (using the waterfall model or something similar). Agile Development in the Real
World conveys valuable insights to multiple audiences: For new-to-agile project managers this
book provides a distinctive approach that Alan Cline has used with great success while showing
the decision points and perspectives as the agile project moves forward from one step to the
next. This allows new agile project managers or agile coaches to choose between the benefits of
agile and the benefits of other methods. For the agile technical team member this book
contains templates and sample project artifacts to assist in learning agile techniques and to
be used as exemplars for the new practitioner's own project. For the Project Management Office
(PMO) the first three chapters focus on portfolio management. They explain for the agilists'
benefit how projects are selected and approved and why projects have an inherent shelf-life
that results in hard deadlines that may seem arbitrary to traditional technical teams. What You
Will Learn: How and why the evolution of project management from PM-1 (prescriptive) to PM-2
(adaptive) affects modern 21st century project management. How sociology (stakeholder
management) psychology (team dynamics) and anthropology (organizational culture) affect the
way software is developed today and why it is far more effective A clear delineation of what
must to be accomplished by all the roles (PM BA APM Developer and Tester) why those roles
are needed and what they must do Step-by-step guide for a successful project based on studies
and the author's own experiences. Specific techniques for each role on the development team
both in the pre-iteration and iteration cycles of product development. The appendices contain
templates that the team could use or modify to tailor their own agile processes specific to the
team project and organization.
