Agile Project Management for Business Transformation Success

This book is intended to provide project management office (PMO) executives practical information to promote enterprise Agile for business value compatibility within their organization. The primary benefit of this book is to promote a sense of common purpose and collaboration between the project delivery and the organization. Agile project delivery methods are adaptable to the emergence of unknown requirements identified in the later part of the project delivery lifecycle. The key success factor is direct business participation and collaboration to ensure that a business focus determines the output. Agile promotes innovation and creates synergies through a business focus viewing technology deployments as a catalyst for change rather than the final objective. Technology investments implemented through Agile processes result in improved market leadership, organizational alignment, and resource efficiency delivering competitive advantage.

Paul Paquette, MBA, PMP, is a technology project manager. Paul received his MBA at the University Canada West, completed the project management program at the University of Toronto and his undergraduate degree (economics) from the University of Western Ontario (Kings College). He has over 15 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering over 80 enterprise infrastructure projects across the Unites States and Canada.; Dr. Milan Frankl, MBA, PhD, worked for IBM, the Desjardins Cooperative Movement, and CGI (a management consulting firm) in various executive positions. After retiring as a partner from CGI, he became a senior executive of a number of high-tech Canadian firms. He earned his MBA in information technology management, and later received his PhD, studying the business decision-making process. He is a principal with MFA Inc., a management consulting firm in Victoria, BC, Canada. Milan is also a professor of business with University Canada West and teaches from time to time business and computer science courses at the University of Victoria.