TEXTBOOK(S) AND REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Title: Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly
Author: Bertrand Meyer
Publisher: Springer
Year Published: 2014 Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN: 10: 3319051547 or 13: 9783319051543
Title: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Author: Jim Highsmith
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Year Published: 2010 Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 10: 0321658396 or 13: 9780321658395
Assignment
Read chapter 3 & 4 of jim Higsmith and 5 & 9 of Myer. This week's Discussion Forum will ask you to correlate what you are studying in the texts with real life examples from the business or organizational world - including your personal experience(s).
This week's Discussion Forum will ask you to correlate what you are studying in the texts with real life examples from the business or organizational world - including your personal experience(s).
Answer these Questions for this week's Discussion Forum (200 word minimum):
1. Based on the readings for this week, what do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of the Agile approach of focusing on "Value over Constraints"?
2. Review the front page of your local newspaper or the front page of the business section (online or hard copy). Try to identify at least one "project" that might have had a better outcome/result had it been focused on value over constraints? (You can also use the Wall Street Journal, New York Times or Dallas Business Journal.)