Agile Project Management with Kanban

Description

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Getting management consent  
• Chapter 2: Kanban quick-start guide   
• Chapter 3: Hitting deadlines    
• Chapter 4: Adapting from Waterfall   
• Chapter 5: Evolving from Scrum   
• Chapter 6: Deploying components, apps, and services   
• Chapter 7: Using Kanban within large organizations   
• Chapter 8: Sustained engineering  
• Chapter 9: Further resources and beyond   
• Index    
• About the author

Think, “Kanban in a box.” Imagine you ordered Kanban for your team, and got the box delivered to your door. You open the box and right on top is a quick-start guide. Being a novice, you follow the guide, and quickly get up and running. As you become more experienced, the other box contents address common advanced issues you’d face, like right-sizing teams, estimation, hitting deadlines, transitioning from Scrum or Waterfall, deploying components and services, and using Kanban within larger organizations.

• Real-world experience from a direct practitioner working on Xbox and Xbox.com 
• A concise, pragmatic, and easy-to-read guide with clear, fresh, and hard-won guidance
• Using Kanban within larger organizations — how to deal with upper management, planning, and dependencies 

Eric Brechner is the development manager for Microsoft’s Xbox Engineering Services team. At Microsoft, he has also been development manager for Xbox.com, engineering learning and development, and Office Media Store. He has previously worked at Boeing, Silicon Graphics, Graftek, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The author of a book and blog on software best practices (as I. M. Wright), he holds eight patents and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics.Use Kanban to maximize efficiency, predictability, quality, and value
With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal:  Agile Project Management with Kanban.
 
Author Eric Brechner pioneered Kanban within the Xbox engineering team at Microsoft. Now he shows you exactly how to make it work for your team.
 
Think of this book as “Kanban in a box”: open it, read the quickstart guide, and you’re up and running fast. As you gain experience, Brechner reveals powerful techniques for right-sizing teams, estimating, meeting deadlines, deploying components and services, adapting or evolving from Scrum or traditional Waterfall, and more.
 
For every step of your journey, you’ll find pragmatic advice, useful checklists, and actionable lessons. This truly is “Kanban in a box”: all you need to deliver breakthrough value and quality.
 
Use Kanban techniques to:

• Start delivering continuous value with your current team  and project
• Master five quick steps for completing work backlogs
• Plan and staff new projects more effectively
• Minimize work in progress and quickly adjust to change
• Eliminate artificial meetings and prolonged stabilization
• Improve and enhance customer engagement
• Visualize workflow and fix revealed bottlenecks
• Drive quality upstream
• Integrate Kanban into large projects
• Optimize sustained engineering (contributed by James Waletzky)
• Expand Kanban beyond software development

Free your teams to write software faster and more reliably with higher quality, with Agile Project Management with Kanban!

• Real-world experience from a direct practitioner working on Xbox and Xbox.com 
• A concise, pragmatic, and easy-to-read guide with clear, fresh, and hard-won guidance
• Using Kanban within larger organizations — how to deal with upper management, planning, and dependencies 

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