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David Stainback Sr. Supply Chain Manager-Engineering| Pactiv Evergreen Roanoke, Va, United States

All projects I've managed are waterfall. Where should I start to understand Agile and the differences?

Posted: Jan 2, 2021 12:52 PM

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Rami Kaibni

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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Read the book: PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths. I know it’s an exam prep book but it’s also an outstanding resource that will make you understand everything about Agile step by step.

Posted: Jan 2, 2021 1:49 PM

Biren Parekh Director| CRISIL Mumbai, Maharastra, India

Here are a few learning videos you may want to go through for your Agile basic learnings at your convenience

What is Agile ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_vnqvW4DQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLARQSoNAlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-lavaMkxU

Diff bet SCRUM & Kanban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIaz-l1Kf8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5USpC5ZKHY

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If you want to prepare for ACP, you can refer to my blog on Linkedin.

Posted: Jan 3, 2021 8:15 AM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

David -

1. Read the Manifesto - not just the values & principles, but the preamble too. While agile delivery pre-existed the Manifesto, it serves as an anchor for the evolution of the approach.

2. Read PMI's Agile Practice Guide to get a good overview including comparisons with predictive approaches.

3. Read the sections in the PMBOK Guide for each knowledge area related to tailoring and considerations for adaptive contexts.

Kiron

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Posted: Jan 3, 2021 8:18 AM

Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina

Agile is an approach. Waterfall is a life cycle. You can use Agile with Waterfall life cycle and others. Agile did not start with the Manifesto. Manifesto is for software, not for Agile. PMI related documentation is wrong or perhaps better said focused in software only. Agile is beyond that. If you read the PMI documentation you will not learn about Agile with exception of the PMBOK and the Business Analysis guide. Just to comment I was part of the group of authors and reviewers then I debeted about that in that opportunity (I did not have participation in Agile based guides). My recommendation is going to the basement and search into the internet and read "Response Ability" by Rick Dove which contains mostly 100% of the works created in the place where Agile and agility were created in 1990 which was outside the software field.
This is a short article the PMI asked me to write that explain what Agile rea.ly is:
English: http://www.pmnetwork-digital.com/pmnetwork/april_2016?pg=73#pg73
Spanish: http://www.pmnetwork-spanish.com/pmnetwork...2016?pg=68#pg68

Posted: Jan 3, 2021 9:25 AM (Updated by author: Jan 3, 2021 9:28 AM)

Peter Ambrosy Weinheim, Germany

To add to above mentioned recommendations:
Jim Highsmith: Agile Project Management
John C. Goodpasture: Project Management the Agile Way

Posted: Jan 3, 2021 11:59 AM

Rodney White Tx, United States

PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths is nice book

Posted: Jan 4, 2021 6:36 AM

Mohannad Ghabban PMO Officer | Confidential Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Below are great resources:

~Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
Cohn, Mike

~Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
Adzic, Gojko

~User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

~Agile Project Management with Scrum (Developer Best Practices)
Schwaber, Ken

~Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
David J. Anderson

~Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
Poppendieck, Mary

~Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals
Rawsthorne, Dan

~User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
Patton, Jeff

~User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
Cohn, Mike

~Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, The: Continuously Delivering an Integrated Product with Multiple Scrum Teams (The Professional Scrum Series)
Bittner, Kurt

Posted: Jan 6, 2021 3:05 AM (Updated by author: Jan 6, 2021 3:06 AM)

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