Head First Agile. Гибкое управление проектами

Head First Series

by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Эндрю Стиллмен

Самое время переходить на гибкую разработку. Наконец-то найден современный, последовательный подход к решению тех проблем, с которыми сражались целые поколения команд разработчиков. Гибкие команды используют простые понятные практики, эффективность которых в реальных проектах была неоднократно подтверждена. Но, погодите минутку... Если гибкие методологии так хороши, почему на них еще не перешли все без исключения?
В реальном мире практика, хорошо работающая в одной команде, создает серьезные проблемы в другой; различия обусловлены образом мышления команд и их подходом к делу. Чтобы разобраться в этом придется погрузиться в гибкую разработку и поменять свое отношение к проектам!

Genres: Programming, Technology, Computer Science, Business, Reference, Nonfiction, Software

464 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Jeanne Boyarsky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Head First books are always fun. I had read O'Reilly's “Learning Agile” by the same authors and there is some overlap. The Head First book was really “too easy” for me, but I read it to be entertained. And also to have a common language with those just learning agile.

Early on, I had a moment of puzzlement – 30 days sprints in Scrum, really? Sixty pages later, they do say that 2 weeks is more common.

There are lots of interactive activities for reinforcement including crossword puzzles to review the terms. The madlibs style fill in the blanks is fun. As were the venn diagrams. I learned a couple new agile games like 1-2 words on how each team member is feeling.

As with many agile books, I was inspired to try new things with my team. Even reading ideas you have heard before helps see those.

The book ends with a full 128 questions PMP practice exam. I like how they kept all the PMP parts to two chapters at the back.

I give this book 8 out of 10 horseshoes.

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Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for writing this review on behalf of CodeRanch.

[Pekka Huhtala · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is indeed a brain friendly book. Learn completely new or rehearse what you already know. Have it on your shelf. If you need to sell agile, here you have great arguments for that.

[Prasanna Venkataraman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good read to know about the basics of Agile. I have been following this practices for sometime without knowing the name of it / thinking in detail about why that was there in the first place. This book answers that part. It explained about Agile, Scrum practices, XP, Kanban. I felt my interest faded away when I read the last part which is Kanban methodology, but apart from that others are a good read. Motivated me to read about Extreme Programming Explained.

[Dragan Bogdan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wanted to learn SCRUM and started with this book beside the information which you can find it at scrum.org.
Its good, I liked it, also the questions are good to work your hand.
The books goes also in other topics like Agile, Lean ... etc but I have skimmed them as my focus currently was on SCRUM and for this the book did its job beautifully.

[Timur Koshel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its a bit boring at the end and there is a lot of PMI-ACP certification advertisements. But its still worth reading.

[Shiva Pande · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably a good book for someone very new to agile software development. I didn't find it particularly inspiring. Call me a bore, but the never-ending humour gets a bit annoying at times :-/

[Tobias Sell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Schönes Arbeitsbuch zur Einführung in die Agilen Arbeitsmethoden. Eignet sich durch den Aufbau für ein Selbststudium, gerade für den Einstieg in Scrum und XP.

[John Fletcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book to get used to agile concepts and study for the PMIACP

[Anjar Priandoyo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, PMI ACP based, more practical implementation especially from software development point of view

[Nadya Ivanova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read and a lot of nice exercises.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of typos and what seemed like basic, easily fixable mistakes. Very disappointed since their PMP prep book was so good. Overall helpful study material though.

[D. Dorka · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good book about agile, with a lot of practical content. Convenient for a first-and-last book about the methods.

[zoagli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful and engaging. Even as an agile expert, I made lots of new connections between the different practices and to their underlying values.

One quibble: The practice exam at the end is much harder than the rest of the book. I would have preferred to have tough questions also after each chapter to help me understand whether my knowledge was up to ACP level.

[Edin Kapić · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent summary of Agile principles/practices. The only nuisance is that it also doubles as a preparation for PMI Agile Practitioner exam, and if you don't need it you have to skip the questions and it makes for a little bit jarring reading experience.