Agile Project Management: A Quick Start Beginner’s Guide To Mastering Agile Project Management Paperback – September 23, 2015

The positive reviews of this book are an absolute JOKE!! How the book even reached a 3rd edition is beyond me given the grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and poor sentence structure throughout. More likely it is not a 3rd Edition at all and this is a vain attempt to get people to think it's a popular book (there's certainly nothing to indicate when the other editions were released!!)The book is so poorly structured and difficult to read, it's as if someone Googled a bunch of Agile articles on the internet in another language, pieced them together in a completely unstructured manner then translated it (poorly) to English.Here's one sentence (verbatim): "For example, for the manufacturer, it is no big deal the product owner changing the specification of product exterior color from, say, red to blue." Some sentences are incomprehensible, most are difficult to read and nearly every paragraph has a grammar or spelling mistake!!Within the first 10 pages you will realise you are reading a summary of how great Agile is but with little practical advice on how to "Master" it beyond the training advertisements mid-way through. Here's a summary of the contents to save you wasting your time:- Agile is great, here's why you should use it (repeated throughout the book)- Here's how Agile is better than other methodologies- There's some training courses available and here's some dot points about what they cover- You should get trained and here's why- Here's how different industries use Agile.I have no evidence but suspect the positive reviews are fake as others have pointed out. Regardless, it is certainly NOT a 4+ star book by any stretch of the imagination. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

I wish I could say my private life is well programmed, but, it isn't! On the other hand, I am happy to say that my professional life is deeply satisfying. I am well organized and I always finish my tasks on time....nevertheless , I never say no to learning about new methods. So, I got this book, as the word agile, especially when plans don't work the way they are planned to, is one of my office favorites! I am glad I did. The author has a deep knowledge of the work environments. He can understand the delicate situations faced when a project is divided and roles are distributed within the coworkers. He, therefore, makes very interesting suggestions based on this method, especially for the short-term objectives!

Informative but very repetitive with too many spelling and grammatical errors. It seems like it was translated from another language with poor proof reading.

Don't believe the overall rating. This book is sub-par at best. The quality is awful (it looks like a copyright knockoff you'd order from China, words run together, etc.). I bought this for two of my newer employees and was embarrassed to give it to them. The content is very generic and doesn't cover any of the agile methodologies in a useful or enlightening way. There are many books on the subject that are a better investment.

Agile : Agile Project Management, A QuickStart Beginners 's Guide To Mastering Agile Project Management !I can't give lower than 1 star. This was a great disappointment. Very, very general with few specific examples of how Agile can work, or guidance on how to initiate it, or even referrals to more detailed sources on the topic. Almost complete disregard/dismissal of conventional project management methodologies and techniques - which is what allows Agile to work and build on. The author, it seems to me, makes Agile sound as if you hardly ever have to write anything down, have any records and somehow, magically, the project team "makes things happen" because Agile is the justification for their buy-in, and is the best thing ever. I'm not sure what I expected from a quick start guide, but I believe this was not it. I agree with a number of the other reviewers on their comments about this book.

I run a small side business with only two other employees but like any business, I want to grow and expand. I've read many managerial books in the last but never one on agile product management. My business is a clothing business so we are constantly putting out new and different clothing items. This is one of the reasons I wanted to learn this highly flexible and interactive project management style. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has a similar, fast changing, ever evolving business.

Putting systems in place to ensure that the project or venture goes according to plan is termed as project management. Basically, in agile project management, you make short-term plans as you go along; here, you do not lay out long-term plans in advance. This book contains basics of the agile project management including sections on how to make each employee own the project and take responsibility for its success. Agile project management appreciates the importance of all facilities and does not undermine any filed of expertise. This makes everyone feel valued and therefore, they give their best. Further, teams in agile project management are autonomous, giving each member a sense of freedom even when that freedom, comes with responsibility. I’d consider this book as one of the best resource book just due to content it contains.I read the book for free with my Kindle Unlimited Subscription.

Rather generic content. Good enough if you are not a seasoned PM but for the experienced one, you will miss more practical examples and applicability