Become an Agile Project Manager: Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Agile Project Management with Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Lean, Six Sigma, and Extreme Programming (Project Management by Ready Set Agile)

This book is good introduction to Agile. It covers most of the aspects of Agile frameworks. If you are new to Agile, Scrum, Kanban, this book is good way to start the Agile transformation journey.

As a college business instructor, I find this book not only well-written but also a bountiful resource tool for those needing that self-esteem boost. The author sites several resources, which shows the author has done extensive research to write this book. Also at the end of the book is a glossary, which gives this book a feel of a textbook used in business classes.The author focuses a lot on what is known as transferable skills. That method is most successful with military men and women. They come back from being deployed and wonder what civilian job they can now get. The author focuses on civilian people already doing civilian activities to show how those skills can be transferred into project management. Some examples he uses are a bit elementary to be transferred into a PM, such as “the best way to take notes during an important call”, while some are very spot on, such as “changed an old procedure to make it more efficient.”He provides a wonderful list on the various stakeholders, and how they overlap. One of the keen things that shine about this book is when the author discusses a new topic, he always discusses the advantages and disadvantages to it. This way the reader can determine on their own the benefits. The author does a thorough job listing out the “tools”, or resources in project management. Most of them I’ve used before and how he summarizes them is quite accurate.Overall, this is a book I’d recommend to my college students. Although, there were some statements I don’t necessarily agree with, such as, “People without self-confidence became leaders and helped not only themselves but their entire team.” (I believe you have to some self-confidence to lead, because if you don’t believe in yourself, even a tiny bit, no one else will), I do agree with many other statements such as, “A project is always unique.” As the title states “Beginner’s Guide”, this is a book that is geared towards the newbies of leadership or those curious what it takes to step into that role. It could also be a useful book for someone who was placed in leadership, but wasn’t ready for it. The ones who were promoted because they are good employees, but don’t have strong skills yet for such a role. This book could be a protective way of encouraging them to stay the course and strengthen their skills.

Specialized abilities and certificates are acceptable, however an ideal undertaking supervisor will have authority abilities. This book is instructive and accommodating on venture overseeing. It centers around Agile venture the executives strategies and instruments and shows the peruser how to actualize and use the product in a business setting.In spite of the fact that I'm not a fledgling, I'm more up to date to explicit methodologies and this book gave me the degree of information I was searching for. Composed by experienced lithe undertaking administrator, it begins with fundamental definitions, and afterward moves into ideas.The group of writers from "Prepared, Set, Agile" has considered every contingency in this amazing manual presenting dexterous venture the board methods and techniques.It's useful to go over significant rubrics like Waterfall, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma, and so on It additionally gives the upsides and downsides of each and how to figure out which approach meets the customers needs. is an elegantly composed guide for project chiefs and business pioneers.I enjoyed the writer's not difficult to follow composing style and useful models utilized in the book. This book is ideal for all levels, from business understudies to upper administration.From distinguishing partners, to the nine administration territories: including time, degree, and cost. This book covers the arranging, setting (gatherings), and execution of run of the mill project. Incorporates a glossary, as well.The material is efficient and extensive; the utilization of sports analogies and terms helps the book's simple comprehensibility. I discovered Chapter 9 and its genuine instances of both fruitful and bombed projects particularly accommodating. Strongly suggested, regardless of whether you're simply beginning or looking to up your game.Bunches of other great stuff like achievement/disappointment and instances of APM and understanding on programming to utilize. Unquestionably an asset I'll continue to re-visitation of.

I purchased this title in order to refresh my knowledge about agile project management. The book explains the differences between traditional waterfall and modern agile models, including presenting pros and cons and key takeaways and provides a solid understanding of the requirements of agile project management. The book has one major flaw though: Lack of real-world XP and lack of personal author examples. Therefore the book is rather theoretical and remains a true beginner's guide. For becoming an agile project manager, one will certainly need concrete XP and work with both waterfall and agile models in various projects, as well as learn from other experienced PMs and their stories, as theory and practical application in agile project management differ widely.

I'm a professionally certified, time-served and experienced Scrum Master who decided to evaluate this book as a potential training text for the juniors in my function. I am glad I did, because there is no way I am presenting this misinformation to them.The book contains 166 pages of content. My first impressions was to notice that the book is written in a quite large bubbly sans serif font, and whilst this was jarring at first, I persevered.48 pages in, however, the jig was up. This book offers comically poor, factually incorrect definitions for basic agile information such as the the purposes of a stand up, and confuses the purposes of a sprint review the goals of a retrospective. Merely a paragraph later, makes the claim that agile projects still need a project manager "just like waterfall projects" (which is awkward when the far shorter and easier to digest 15 page Scrum Guide - which is written by the creators of scrum and is given away for on their website for free - makes clear that there is no traditional project manager in an agile team, because the team is self-organising and self-directing, ergo they are all the project manager, together).Such basic errors in comprehension made me suspicious about who the author was. This prompted me to flip back to the front cover, but their name is not present. I checked the first few pages inside, and it isn't there either. Who considers themselves to be an authority on a subject such that they write a book on it, but isn't brave enough to put their name to it?It also made me suspicious about who may have written a review on the back of the book, or a forward for the book, because frankly, I was amazed that page 48 got past any editor who knew the subject matter and I wanted to know if there were any peers who were brave enough to put their name on the book in the form of an endorsement. Guess what? No reviews and no forward.I will not be progressing past page 48. I will instead be looking to return this book and recollecting my money because this book is, in my professional opinion, not fit for purpose.

Whether an absolute beginner or a veteran, you will find everything to lead your Agile projects. It is well written and very well researched.

The book provide a good linkage of all key topics in the field of project management, quality. It proved a good reference for learning the topics quickly. Thanks

Es buen libro con lo básico para comenzar

even for a beginner's guide it touches the topic in a very superficial manner. Writes how important examples are, 7 pages with 10 examples without any real content are included. Writes how important graphics and visual aids are, non at all in used in the book. Throws in a lot of different concepts (e.g. Lean or Six Sigma) without offering any real, valuable explanation of application and how to use any of the topics touched.Maybe the first book that will end up in paper recycling