Agile: The Ultimate Guide to Agile Project Management and Kanban for Agile Software Development

By: James Edge

Narrated by: Sam Slydell

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's Summary

If you want to save time, money, and effort while simultaneously increasing your team’s value and getting more satisfied customers, then pay attention....

Two comprehensive manuscripts in one audiobook:

• Agile Project Management: How to Make Your Customers Happier While Saving Money, Time, and Effort
• Kanban: The Ultimate Guide to Kanban Methodology for Agile Software Development

Every day, businesses are losing huge amounts of money because they are acting in a way that dissatisfies their customers. For example, New Voice Media issued a report in 2016 that reported $62 billion worth of business was lost due to poor customer service.

How many businesses miss out on thousands, if not millions, of dollars in extra profit...without even realizing? Could your business be one of them?

You see, most people make the same mistakes when it comes to getting things done, as well as getting the right things done.

But with this audiobook, you can learn about Kanban methodology and Agile project management so you can optimize the workflow to serve a specific purpose, ensuring customer satisfaction.

The first part of this audiobook includes:

• A clear definition of what Agile project management truly is
• A comprehensive comparison of Agile project management versus more traditional approaches
• Compelling reasons for why you and your company should adopt an Agile approach
• Defined principles and values of Agile project management so you can understand how they can be applied to your business environment
• Comparisons between a variety of the most common Agile methodologies
• Suggestions on how to assign roles and create a motivated team environment
• An outline of the entire sprint process from start to finish
• Parallel management processes to ensure quality and risk mitigation is effective
• And much, much more

By listening to the second part of this audiobook, you will:

• Discover what a Kanban system is
• Learn how it can help with software development
• Explore the benefits of using Kanban so you can convince your team to adopt it
• Gain clarity on how to create a Kanban board
• Learn about the seven Kanban cadences
• Gain knowledge about Kanban’s WIP limits
• And much, much more

Don’t let your competitors get to this information before you. Get this audiobook today and improve your business now!

©2018 James Edge (P)2018 James Edge

No Chapter Titles

The introduction is too long and there are no chapter titles. It would have been great to be able to jump to a section.

Good overview, missing contrast with waterfall

Reader doesn't do the letter L, but very skilled at masking, still a bit distracting.
There are summaries of the different methods, not a lot of examples, and I wish there could have been a comparison to the default way of doing projects, waterfall.

Learn Agile methodology understanding here.

This was a great read. I was really interested in learning more about agile project management and boy did I ever. this book had a ton of information. the title says its a simplified beginners guide, and it really was simple, but it was really in depth as well. highly recommended!!!

Good read for beginners

Practical and easy to-do activities that will help you to get successful results off your projects. I’m currently learning and practicing along the way of dealing with the stresses and challenges with activities needed to finish a project. Good read and something you can share with the team to reach your goals.

Helpful kickstart to Agile

Liked the concise but through introduction to this new project management methodology. Good reference for a quick revision in future.

Interesting overview and guide.

The title suggests a guide. And it is more of a historical overview with some quite shallow examples. I expected a lot more.

A great starting-point for anyone,

I like how it gives a history and layout of the basics in the beginning of the book. It was a good basis of how to preform agile in the work place and has provided a building block for me at work. It is easy for a beginner to understand and gives a clear understanding of the key ideas and principles of Agile. If you like IT, use this in the workplace, or would like some fresh ideas in running IT at work, I would highly suggest this book for reading.

Good if you're not familiar with Agile at all.

I was given this item for free or at a discount in exchange for my honest unbiased opinion, which is given. I am no way have been influenced by the seller. Pretty basic; good if you're not familiar with Agile at all.

Excellent resource! Great primer!

A great starting-point for anyone wanting to unravel the mystery of "Agile" in the workplace. It couldn't have been written better.

This book is by far so much better.

I did receive this product in exchange for my genuine, unbiased review.
This book is by far so much better, by a long shot! The details are clear, and straight forward to understand. The author an amazing job of explaining things thoroughly and little by little expanding on the principles of Project management. We have been able to better focus our time on what is actually being taught; this book has done wonders for us in understanding the material for class.

Definitely good for those who are learning agile

I'm glad to have come across this book when i was looking i to agile project management. As a a manager, I've been trying to learn and understand different aspects of agile from testing, development, project management and more. Reading this book has definitely given me a lot of useful and important information when it comes to project management. the explanations and concepts and examples are all easy to understand so this is definitely good for those who are learning agile.

Really good introduction.

I have been hearing a lot about Agile lately; sprints, scrum, what is all this, and why is it important. It was about time I found out for myself. Not having much time to read a thousand page book on the subject I turned to this Ultimate Guide. In a short hour or two, I was able to catch myself up on the overall concepts, benefits, and potential issues with the agile approach to project management.

Very sound principles

I like how the first principle is that customer satisfaction is the highest priority. Of course in order for a business to have longevity, it requires that the company have customers, and more importantly, when the customers are loyal and keep coming back. It brings more certainty for the company to have consistent projected profitability. I feel that the principles are very sound and, if followed, lay down a very strong foundation.

Highly recommend!

Agile is to be great when your organization wants to obtain benefits sooner or business needs change frequently. You can work on what you know about the business' needs now. I found this Quick Start Guide to be very informative as well as easy to read. The author does not speak over you, rather they speak to and with you. Great explanations in all aspects discussed. Highly recommend! I'm excited to put what I've learned to task. I received this product for free.

This states this is a quick start guide.

This book had a ton of information. the title says its a simplified beginners guide, and it really was simple, but it was really in depth as well. Highly recommended!!!

This guide gave good analogies.

I appreciate the contrast provide in the guide to other project management strategies as well, for example the Waterfall approach; this helped distinguish and set apart the approach in my mind. I did catch a few missing words (or in one case sentences - hopefully this was my kindle players fault), but overall a great introduction to the topic.

I love the content in the book.

As the title says, it is a quick-start guide for beginners. In every sense of the word. As you can tell from only a 90 page book, it doesn't go into a lot of depth, more than just a quick glance at the basics.