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Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme

Robert K. Wysocki

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Unlock your potential and achieve breakthrough performance in project management

If you're looking for a more robust approach to project management--one that recognizes the project environment and adapts accordingly--then this is the perfect resource. It not only guides you through the traditional methods, but also covers the adaptive and extreme approaches as well. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of each one and know exactly when and how to use them.

You'll also be introduced to the Adaptive Project Framework, which arms you with a new project management methodology. And with the help of two new case studies, you'll be able to put these ideas into practice and experience some of the contemporary nuances of projects.

This definitive guide to project management shows you how to:

• Take advantage of new variations on traditional project management methods, including risk assessment and control
• Decide the best method for managing specific types of projects by analyzing all of the pros and cons
• Apply the Adaptive Project Framework to the world of fast-paced, high-change, and complex projects
• Create a war room to successfully manage multiple team projects
• Determine how project portfolio management approaches can help companies achieve a greater return on investment
• Utilize all nine Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) standards advocated by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process

Scott W. Ambler, Ron Jeffries

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If you live in a world of too much documentation, read this 3 out of 5 stars.
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For those few places left that steep themselves in documentation and don't have a legally-required reason to do so (do they exist?), this book should help motivate why producing too much documentation and doing too much modeling up front can hurt rather than help. Even for a company that sees itself as lightweight, he's got some rough assessments you can do to see if you're overdoing things, which were relevant even where I work.

The only bad thing is that it was a very theory and ideal oriented book. It didn't contain concrete examples of what Agile Modeling would look like on a real project, how it would feel, and how what models were produced would evolve. This made it a bit difficult to verify my interpretation of the book.

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The first book to cover Agile Modeling, a new modeling technique created specifically for XP projects eXtreme Programming (XP) has created a buzz in the software development community-much like Design Patterns did several years ago. Although XP presents a methodology for faster software development, many developers find that XP does not allow for modeling time, which is critical to ensure that a project meets its proposed requirements. They have also found that standard modeling techniques that use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) often do not work with this methodology. In this innovative book, Software Development columnist Scott Ambler presents Agile Modeling (AM)-a technique that he created for modeling XP projects using pieces of the UML and Rational's Unified Process (RUP). Ambler clearly explains AM, and shows readers how to incorporate AM, UML, and RUP into their development projects with the help of numerous case studies integrated throughout the book.

Extreme Programming for Web Projects (XP Series)

Doug Wallace, Isobel Raggett, Joel Aufgang

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It's about time! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am a programmer. I don't write Java or C# or Perl or any server side code. I am the guy that works on the interface side of web sites doing very complicated XML and XSL. This is the first book on programming that understands my role on web projects and that pure software development methodologies don't take my needs into account.

The clear online of roles and how team members can work together to create powerful websites given by this book is great. I also really liked the chapters describing how to use XML and XSL to separate content from presentation. It has given the sites I work on far more fluid structures. Hats off to Wallace, Aufgang and Raggett.

Misses Connecting XP To Web Development 2 out of 5 stars.
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This book's premise is an interesting one: Does XP work for web projects, and if so then how does one go about implementing it? The authors are up front about the first question in the opening to Chapter 1: "Sort of" they say. The book's entire content struck me as a continuation of that statement.

The book attempts to be a bit too general in many aspects: there's a lot of high-level coverage of XP tenets without much utility specific to web development. The general coverage of XP is nice, but you'll find better content in other works; however, the authors didn't intend for this to be a seminal work on XP anyway, so that's not a big issue.

Several sections do provide good information specific to XP in web development, such as Chapter 8 (Graphics Design) and its emphasis on how to wrap customers in to the process early. Another example would be the discussion in Chapter 11 (Planning) on how the "customer" in web development differs a bit from what XP usually considers a "customer."

There's also a lot of good discussion at a high level on how the use of XML vice static HTML as data can greatly benefit the development process. There are good overviews of XML in general, XSLT from 30,000 feet, and a nice blurb on how the Tidy tool can help you keep out of trouble.

The downside of this book is that too often it stretches too far to make the connection between XP and web development. It's not detailed enough as a reference for implementing XP practices, and it doesn't do a good enough job of tying web development into XP for those looking to solve that problem.

The book is concise and well-written, but that doesn't make up for its fundamental weaknesses.

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Shows how the Extreme Programming (XP) software development discipline can be adapted and applied to the Web-based project development process. Softcover.

eXtreme Programming in Action: Practical Experiences from Real World Projects

Martin Lippert, Stephen Roock, Henning Wolf

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A Real World Book 4 out of 5 stars.
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By reading this book, I fill I was in a real world project. It made a very good presentation on the real project that everyone might experience.

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Real-life experience of eXtreme Programming from XP programmers.
eXtreme Programming (XP) is a hot new development methodology for building software systems quickly without sacrificing quality. Authors Lippert, Wolf and Rook have three years' experience of working on professional XP projects. The projects range from application via prototype to framework development and cover project sizes from one person month to more than 400 person months. Until now XP has been described in outline by those promoting its advantages, this book provides objective examples of how it can be used in practice.
* An objective assessment of XP, grounded in real world experience, and not written by those championing this method
* Invaluable combination of theory and practice
* Covers advanced topics such as project organization, team roles and integrating legacy systems

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008, Proceedings ... Notes in Business Information Processing)

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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 2008, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2008.

Out of 54 submitted papers, 16 were accepted as full papers, 4 experience reports, 14 poster papers, 9 workshop papers, and 3 contributions on panel discussions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile innovations, adaptation of agile, agile testing and assessment, history and evolution of agile, people factors in agile environments, conceptual models of agility, and experience reports.

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.

Computing and Communications in the Extreme: Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications

Steering Committee, Workshop Series on High Performance Computing and Communications, Mathematics, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences, National Research Council

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This book synthesizes the findings of three workshops on research issues in high-performance computing and communications (HPCC). It focuses on the role that computing and communications can play in supporting federal, state, and local emergency management officials who deal with natural and man-made hazards (e.g., toxic spills, terrorist bombings). The volume also identifies specific research challenges for HPCC in meeting unmet technology needs in crisis management and other nationally important application areas, such as manufacturing, health care, digital libraries, and electronic commerce and banking.