Agile development methods began to emerge around 20 years ago. However, it was not until the early 2000s that they began to be widely used in industry. This growth was often due to the advent of Internet services requiring faster cycles of development in order to heighten the rate at which an ever-greater number of functionalities were made available. In parallel, user-centered design (UCD) methods were also becoming more and more widely used: hence, user-centered design and agile methods ...

The older rigid traditional models of delivering changes has been replaced with an agile way of delivering changes. The world of apps, and internet driven economy means that any change has to be delivered almost overnight with no scope for delays and the consumer wants things almost immediately.Agile provides that project management methodology to help you get the results immediately.Written for beginners, this book explains Agile concepts using the Scrum approach and fits them tog...

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Anyone working in the projects space today will no doubt be familiar with the pressure to deliver too much with too few resources. This book has been written with this in mind and is designed to provide an introduction to the core Scrum framework.Scrum is a light weight framework built predominantly on Agile principles which has often been described as "easy to learn, hard to master". It has gained popularity as it is incredibly simple to understand for both users and stakeholders ...

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Blogs, which are also known as web logs are all the rage right now online. Everyone has a blog, and everyone is making money by blogging. The question is how are they doing it? What is so special about a blog that you can make money by posting on it? First you should know that a blog is a little bit like an online journal. You can make posts in it about anything that you want to, and then publish it for the whole world to read. If you have never blogged before, it is a good idea to do so j...

There has never been a PMP/PMBOK manual like this. 100 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of PMP/PMBOK . Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This book is also not about PMP/PMBOK 's best practice and standards details. Instead it introduces everything you want to know to ...

Written in an engaging and entertaining style, Agile Governance and Audit serves as an ideal introduction for auditors and risk managers.Many auditors are now encountering Agile management methodologies for the first time. This can cause problems for the audit process because the methodology is very different from traditional project approaches. Aside from the difficulties faced by the auditor, an ineffective audit can have a negative effect on an Agile project and might e...

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