Category: Project Management Books

Rally-Point Backlog: Protect The Team, Protect The Vision, Ship, is a book about a new method in helping Agile teams start their project. The author developed this new way during the course of his decade-plus experience as a software developer and Agile enthusiast/evangelist. The book discusses three methods as a new approach in improving the…

Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom: A Guide to Unleashing Team Performance is a book about the journey of the author as a NASA Director of Mission Operations. He has spent more than two decades in an environment known for its high degree of pressure to perform at one’s best. It is…

The Compass Solution: A Guide to Winning Your Career is a guide based on the personal experience of the author. As a successful professional and accomplished veteran of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, the author has compiled lifelong lessons based on certain principles which he attributes to have helped him not only survive but thrive…

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Sixth Edition has been completed and is available in the market. It is the latest update since the release of the Fifth Edition in January 2013. The guide holds the latest best practices in project management, in particular, complementary agile approaches, as well as…

Project Management the Agile Way: Making It Work in the Enterprise, 2nd Edition is the updated edition of the popular 2010 book of the same name. Like the 1st Edition, it is about Agile methodologies seen in the perspective of project management. This latest edition has been redesigned to have a more modular format that…

Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS is about scaling Agile and the Scrum framework for larger organizations. Agile methods and processes have been proven effective in small teams, but questions and problems arise when applied in enterprises. The book explains and provide guidance on how to apply the agile and effective simple structure of Scrum with…

Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust is about Agile and Scrum software development. It discusses the problem of why current software organizations are slow in developing software. It reviews current and faulty processes, and presents a better alternative. The book explains in…

The Elements of Scrum uses storytelling to demonstrate the principles and practices of Scrum. It includes history and origin, and comparison to traditional methodology. The book also discuss the principles and practices as stated in the Agile Manifesto but through anecdotal explanations, historical examples, and frank opinions. It also has explanations about every aspect of…

Project Management: A Quick Start Beginner’s Guide For The Serious Project Manager To Managing Any Project Easily is an introductory book as the title suggests. It provides a comprehensive but general overview of project management. The book will give readers without PM background or accidental project managers an idea of what it is to be…

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time is an Amazon best selling book in the categories of business and time management. It is about its origin, principles, and practices of the Scrum framework for creating new software and products. By the use of stories, the book shares the applicability of…