Project Management
Information comes at us so fast and furious these days that looking at new books on Amazon.com is actually a
good practice for learning about new, hot topics such as Agile PM. The single best book, arguably, to come out
to date on how PMBOK-schooled and practiced PM's can best make the transition to Agile PM and/or learn
some new tricks from Agile PM is The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility. Click on the link below to
see the Amazon.com page o this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Software-Project-Managers-Bridge-Agility/dp/0321502752/ref=sr_1_2?
ie=UTF8&qid=1359604494&sr=8-2&keywords=pmbok+agile
To complete this Discussion, you need to do the following.
Read over the information at the above link and "look inside" the book's table of contents by clicking on the
book image. In your Discussion post, explain why or why not this books appeals to you. After you explain your
reaction to the book, describe in 50-100 words what this books tells you about how PMBOK and Agile PM
techniques compare with each other. If it's useful to you, search the authors and book title on the web to read
more background information on this book. No citations are needed in your Discussion post, but if you use
outside sources, be sure to cite them appropriately.