Agile Portfolio Management

Description

Agile development processes foster better collaboration, innovation, and results. So why limit their use to software projects - when you can transform your entire business?

Written by agile-mentoring expert Jochen Krebs, this book illuminates the opportunities - and rewards - of applying agile processes to your overall IT portfolio.

Whether project manager, business analyst, or executive - you’ll understand the business drivers behind agile portfolio management. And learn best practices for optimizing results.

Use agile processes to align IT and business strategy

* Adapt and extend core agile processes
* Orchestrate the collaboration between IT and business vision
* Eliminate wish-list driven requirements, and manage expectations instead
* Optimize the balance of projects, resources, and assets in your portfolio
* Use metrics to communicate project status, quality, even team morale
* Create a portfolio strategy consistent with the goals of the organization
* Achieve organizational and process transparency
* Manage your business with agility - and help maximize the returns!

CONTENTS:

Praise for Agile Project ManagementAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Agile for Managers
* Chapter 1: Motivations
* Chapter 2: Agile Software Development
* Chapter 3: Project ManagementPart II: Defining, Planning, and Measuring Portfolios
* Chapter 4: Foundation
* Chapter 5: Metrics
* Chapter 6: Return on Investment
* Chapter 7: Project Portfolio Management
* Chapter 8: Resource Portfolio Management
* Chapter 9: Asset Portfolio Management
* Chapter 10: Portfolios in ActionPart III: Organization and Environment
* Chapter 11: Portfolio Management Using Scrum
* Chapter 12: Project Management OfficeAppendix : Additional ResourcesAppendix : Jochen Krebs