Agile Product and Project Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building the Right Products Right

Book Description

Use this comprehensive Agile product and project management guide with real-world case studies and examples for self-learning or as a student textbook. Whether you are a CEO or a student, this book will take you from Agile delivery to team topology and product-market fit.

Agile delivery is becoming a mainstream project management framework, increasing demand for an understanding of modern related concepts. Agile Product and Project Management covers IT delivery and project management basics while approaching IT as a customer-centric product delivery ecosystem.

The book covers two major topics: building the RIGHT product and building the product RIGHT. Each chapter builds on the materials in the previous chapter. Terminology and exercises are introduced sequentially. The book takes you on a journey from identifying a product using Agile principles to delivering and iterating on this process, step-by-step. The final chapter provides practical advice on role-based interviews, career progression, professional certifications and affiliations, and communities of practice.

You’ll Learn

• The Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework, which explains why every project has to align with organizational objectives and how these objectives are used to measure project success
• Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP), Waterfall, and hybrid product and project management practices, and how to apply the “working backwards” framework from the customer to IT projects
• The Lean Startup framework of product design, based on the “build-measure-learn” feedback loop, and compared with Waterfall requirements gathering and project scope management
• Design Thinking and customer research practices
• The product backlog taxonomy (epic, user story, subtask, bug, etc.), prioritization techniques, ongoing backlog maintenance, and stakeholder communication
• Major aspects of IT delivery, including Agile teams, roles, frameworks, and success criteria
• Waterfall planning and Scrum, in detail, including its Sprint structure, artifacts, roles, and ceremonies (meetings) as well as a comparison of Agile scaling frameworks
• Case studies of modern technology leaders, from startups to FAANG
• Examples of release plans and delivery reports based on actual projects in a wide range of companies, ways to minimize technical debt, implement DevOps, and establish quality management practices for software products
• Effective ways of managing dependencies and delivering products that delight customers and made the Silicon Valley giants successful and allowed for rapid business growth

Who This Book Is For

Graduate students specializing in computer science, information systems, project management, and related management areas; practitioners seeking professional development; and project management professionals looking to grow their careers into Agile product and project management

中文：

书名：敏捷产品和项目管理：构建正确产品的分步指南

将这本全面的敏捷产品和项目管理指南与真实世界的案例研究和示例一起用于自学或作为学生教科书。无论你是CEO还是学生，这本书都将带你从敏捷交付到团队拓扑和产品市场匹配。

敏捷交付正在成为一种主流的项目管理框架，对理解现代相关概念的需求日益增加。敏捷产品和项目管理涵盖IT交付和项目管理基础知识，同时将IT视为以客户为中心的产品交付生态系统。

这本书涵盖了两个主要主题：构建正确的产品和构建正确的产品。每一章都以上一章中的材料为基础。术语和练习将按顺序介绍。这本书带你踏上了一段旅程，从使用敏捷原则识别产品，到交付和迭代这个过程，一步一步地。最后一章提供了关于基于角色的面试、职业发展、专业认证和从属关系以及实践社区的实用建议。

你会知道的

• 目标和关键结果(OKR)框架，它解释了为什么每个项目都必须与组织目标保持一致，以及如何使用这些目标来衡量项目成功
• 敏捷(Scrum、看板、XP)、瀑布以及混合型产品和项目管理实践，以及如何将框架从客户向后应用到IT项目
• 基于构建-测量-学习反馈循环的产品设计精益启动框架，并与瀑布需求收集和项目范围管理进行了比较
• 设计思维和客户研究实践
• 产品待办事项分类(EPIC、用户故事、子任务、错误等)、优先级排序技术、持续的待办事项维护和利益相关者沟通
• IT交付的主要方面，包括敏捷团队、角色、框架和成功标准
• 瀑布规划和Scrum的详细内容，包括其Sprint结构、构件、角色和仪式(会议)，以及敏捷扩展框架的比较
• 从初创企业到一汽集团的现代技术领导者案例研究
• 基于广泛公司的实际项目的发布计划和交付报告的例子，最小化技术债务的方法，实施DevOps，以及为软件产品建立质量管理实践的方法
• 管理依赖关系和交付产品的有效方法，以取悦客户，并使硅谷巨头获得成功并实现业务快速增长

这本书是为谁写的

专攻计算机科学、信息系统、项目管理和相关管理领域的研究生；寻求专业发展的实践者；以及希望在敏捷产品和项目管理领域发展事业的项目管理专业人员