title: The Agile Team Handbook
author:  Jan Beaver 
description: Jan Beaver is a Ph.D. educator with 25 years of experience in the software industry. His experience covers the gamut of management, development, QA, and technical writing. His first practical exposure to Scrum was a dramatic eye-opening experience that for the first time demonstrated that there really was a better way not just to develop software, but a better way to work in general. Jan is an expert Agile trainer and coach who has worked with a wide variety of companies in an equally wide variety of industries including telecommunications, medical, insurance, media, utilities, and smart-grid energy. He specializes in bringing Scrum and broader Agile and Lean principles and practices to teams, helping them to become effective, productive, and self-sustaining. He also works at the enterprise level using both training and coaching to help organizations become successful in their Agile practice.
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  Agile Project Management:
  Creating Innovative Products,
  Second Edition
  By Jim Highsmith
  ...............................................
  Publisher: Addison-Wesley
  Professional
  Pub Date: July 10, 2009
  Print ISBN-10: 0-321-65839-6
  Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-
  65839-5
  Web ISBN-10: 0-321-65920-1
  Web ISBN-13: 978-0-321-
  65920-0
  Pages: 432
  Slots: 1.0
   
  Table of Contents  | Index
     
  Copyright
     
  Praise for Jim Highsmith's Agile Project Management,
  Second Edition
     
  Praise for Jim Highsmith's Agile Project Management
     
  The Agile Software Development Series
     
  Acknowledgments
     
  About the Author
     
  Foreword
     
  Preface
     
     Introduction
      
  Conventions
      
  The Agile Software Development Series
     
      Chapter 1.  The Agile Revolution
      
  Agile Business Objectives
  
      
  Agility Defined
      
  Agile Leadership Values
      
  Agile Performance Measurement
      
  The APM Framework
      
  Performance Possibilities
      
  Final Thoughts
     
      Chapter 2.  Value over Con