title: Scrum Project Management
author:  Kim H. Pries 
description: This is a great book for both scrum and non-scrum project management organizations.<br />Illustrations of scrum principles were explained using traditional waterfall terminologies...<br /> --Aravind Arthanari - PM World Today
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  First edition  
  
  
  © 2021 Prosper Consulting Inc.,
  
  
  The Tech Academy
  
  
  PROJECT MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK
  
  
  Rapidly Learn the Basics of Agile, Scrum and DevOps in Hours
  
  
  Written by:
  
  
  Jack C. Stanley and Erik D. Gross,
  
  
  Co-Founders of The Tech Academy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
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  We wrote this book to provide an easy, “one-stop shop” for project management.
  
  
  
  
  
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  As the cover states, this book includes the basics of:
  
  
  
  
  
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  Project management
  
  
  – the art of completing tasks through running people and organizing.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Agile
  
  
  – a type of project management that focuses on teamwork and flexibility.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Scrum
  
  
  – the most popular form of Agile, named after the rugby term “Scrum” (packing
  players close together in an attempt to gain possession of a ball).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  DevOps
  
  
  – short for Development and Operations; a business practice that coordinates
  the work of technology professionals with the work of employees no