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Citation
Howard, W.R. (2010), "Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products", Kybernetes, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp. 155-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684921011021336
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
This Second Edition of Jim Highsmith's earlier Classic Guide has been updated with additional material aimed at providing a guide for those who may have bigger projects in view and work for organisations who are most likely to commission them.
Readers who are familiar with his earlier edition know how useful it was and in this new version he has completely updated its contents. He continues to aim his text at those at all levels, who have the responsibility of seeing the project through and indeed as his title suggests, to create innovative products. Therefore, managers and executives, and most importantly, project leaders, will benefit from the guide.
The key to his book is Agile Management and his writings are directed to this aim of collecting together all the best practices that can achieve this agility. He looks for the very best of project and product managements linked to software, which is equally developed. Finally, he believes these components must be integrated into a structure that is able to provide the speed and mobility which he considers to be agile project management (APM). One of the main problems of attempting to introduce APM is the problem of continued performance measurement.
For performance measuring, it is necessary to define the concept as well as the method of quantifying it. This has always proved to be a thorny subject in whatever operation requires such an important measure. Jim Highsmith in this version of the guide looks at performance measurements with reference to value, quality and constraints. This provides an interesting approach which will excite those who are responsible for project management and believe in the benefits of APM.
This is a book that will in its Second Edition surely prove as useful and popular as the first and at the same time offer new insights to efficient, yet agile, project management.