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Managing Offshore Development Projects: An Agile Approach

Venkatesh Upadrista

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In a business environment where companies are outsourcing their software development projects to India and other offshore centres, it becomes critical to make sure that the offshore service providers are managing the projects properly to reduce the risk of failure. Recent statistics show that overall, outsourced software development projects may increase overall risk; however, many techniques exist to reduce this risk and improve overall project performance. Written by a senior manager within one of the large Indian outsourcing firms, "Managing Offshore Development Projects: An Agile Approach" shows how agile management methods can be used to better manage and control these offshore projects. With examples from many real-world projects, the book presents a unique look at how to manage agile projects in an outsourced environment. Full of charts, graphs, and metrics, this book is an invaluable resource that should be on the shelf of every manager considering using and offshore partner on his or her next project.

Agile project management: running PRINCE2 projects with DSDM Atern: Running Prince2 Projects with DSDM Atern

Keith Richards

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Winston Churchill, the Agile Project Manager (Project Management Audio Library)

Mark Kozak-Holland

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Today’s pace of change has reached unprecedented levels only seen in times of war. As a result, project management has changed accordingly with the pressure to deliver and make things count quickly. This audiobook looks back at a period of incredible change and mines lessons that Project Managers can use today.

In May 1940, the United Kingdom (UK) was facing a dire situation, an imminent invasion. As the evacuation of Dunkirk unfolded, the scale of the disaster became apparent. The army abandoned 90% of its equipment, the RAF fighter losses were deplorable, and over 200 ships were lost.

Winston Churchill, one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, was swept into power. With depleted forces and no organized defense, the situation required a near miracle. Churchill had to mobilize quickly and act with agility to assemble a defense. He had to make the right investment choices, pour resources in, and deliver a complete project in time to save his country. This audio looks at Churchill as an agile Project Manger, turning a disastrous situation into an unexpected victory.

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 8th International Conference, XP 2007, Como, Italy, June 18-22, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP 2007, held in Como, Italy in June 2007.

The 10 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 4 poster papers, 18 experience papers, 2 research ideas and 3 panel summaries were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on managing agile processes, extending agile methodologies, teaching and introducing agile methodologies, methods and tools, empirical studies, and methodology issue.

Agile Information Systems: Conceptualization, Construction, and Management

Kevin C. Desouza

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This book presents cutting-edge research and thinking on agile information systems. The concept of agile information systems has gained strength over the last 3 years, coming into the MIS world from manufacturing, where agile manufacturing systems has been an important concept for several years now. The idea of agility is powerful: with competition so fierce today and the speed of business so fast, a company's ability to move with their customers and support constant changing business needs is more important than ever. Agile information systems:
. have the ability to add, remove, modify, or extend functionalities with minimal penalties in terms of time, cost, and effort
. have the ability to process information in a flexible manner
. have the ability to accommodate and adjust to the changing needs of the end-users.
This is the first book to bring together academic experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss how companies can create and deploy agile information systems. Contributors are well-regarded academics known to be on the cutting-edge of their fields.
The Editor, Kevin Desouza, has organized the chapters under three categories:
. discussion of the concept of agile information systems (i.e. defining agile information management, its attributes, antecedents, consequences, etc.)
. discussion of information systems within the context of agility (i.e., descriptions of agile information systems and their attributes, how to build agile information systems, etc.)
. discussion of organizational management issues in the context of agile information systems (i.e., how to prepare the organization for agile information systems, management of agile information systems for improved organizational performance, etc.)

*First book to address the hot topic of agile information systems
*Contributions break new ground and provide concrete applications for practice
*Contributors include highly respected academics from around the world

Agile Project Management With Scrum

Ken Schwaber

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Accelerating Process Improvement Using Agile Techniques

Deb Jacobs

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Accelerating Process Improvement Using Agile Techniques explains how agile programming is applied to standard process improvement. By applying agile techniques, IT organizations can speed up process improvement initiatives, minimize the resources these initiatives require, and maximize the benefits of process improvement. The book details step-by-step how to implement the Accelerating Process Improvement Methodology (APIM) and how to integrate APIM with various standard process improvement models and methodologies, including the ISO 9000 series, SPICE, TQM, SPIRE, PMBOK, and CMM/CMMI. Agile process improvement enables organizations to rapidly set strategic goals, meet a greater percentage of user requirements, and realize a quicker return on investment.

 

About the Author

Deb Jacobs is a Professional Consultant with Focal Point Associates specializing in process improvement and project management. She currently provides support to organizations in training, process improvement consulting, project management consulting, software engineering consulting, and proposal development. Ms. Jacobs has over 25 year’s in project management, process improvement management, system/software engineering, and proposal development with a BS in Computer Science.

Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance (APICS Series on Resource Management)

Massimo Paolucci, Roberto Sacile

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Traditional manufacturing systems rely upon centralized, hierarchical systems that are not responsive enough to the increasing demand for mass customization. Decentralized, or heterarchical, management systems using autonomous agents promise to nullify the limitations of previous solutions.

Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance offers a survey of both the literature and the practical applications of this technology. Using a realistic example of a fictitious firm throughout, the book indicates when agent-based systems are appropriate, enumerates techniques to decompose a problem into entities that can be modeled as agents, provides a step-by-step guide to implementation, and offers hints for using simulation to design the system. The authors pay particular attention to object-oriented techniques and to the selection of appropriate tools and inter-agent communication standards, with specific reference to JADE middleware and FIPA framework.

Practical, applicative, and state-of-the-art, this text provides all the tools necessary for implementing an extremely flexible, robust, adaptive, and fault-tolerant manufacturing system. This is the perfect reference for AI researchers, industrial manufacturing engineers, operations researchers, and plant managers who wish to develop the most efficient manufacturing systems available.

Agile activates product data management across the global supply chain. (Agile Software Corp.): An article from: Manufacturing Automation

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This digital document is an article from Manufacturing Automation, published by Vital Information Publications on April 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2574 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Agile activates product data management across the global supply chain. (Agile Software Corp.)
Publication: Manufacturing Automation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1998
Publisher: Vital Information Publications
Volume: v7 Issue: n6 Page: p8(4)

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The agile association.: An article from: Association Management

Arlene Farber Sirkin, Miriam T. Meister

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From the supplier: The success of any trade organization's adaptation to any significant change relies on the compliance of both the leaders and members to its implications. The degree of adaptation is closely related to the flexibility and agility of the organization to reinvent itself according to the new structure, process and culture brought by changes. These traits enable the group to take full advantage of available opportunities.

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Title: The agile association.
Author: Arlene Farber Sirkin
Publication: Association Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: American Society of Association Executives
Volume: v50 Issue: n3 Page: p59(5)

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