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Project management

March, 2012

Agile Project Management

Agile means flexibility. It is the capability of being able to respond cope to different

situations. Due to the numerous changes in the service and management industry, and

the great pressure of them to deliver output, there has been an increase in the interest

in agile software methodologies. This is because it greatly helps to rapidly deliver

results and outputs while keeping track of the changes and at the same time sustaining

the project quality.

One of the examples of Agile methodology include eXtreme Programming. What this

does exactly is calculate the tradeoffs by also maintaining the lowest costs possible by

the shortest route possible. This is a great advantage due to the numerous budget cuts

and the different uncertainties that may occur doing a project. Other Agile

methodologies include SCRUM and Feature-Driven Development. Technically all of

them work the same. Their main goal is to help deliver the highest values possible.

Its not going to be easy for these methodologies to spread however. This is mostly

because they take away the power of managers to foresee the projects so that they can

be successful. Also, it is difficult to find management support to accept and enforce the

technology. Last but not least, many older project management software that does not

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agree with the new agile methodologies which will make it even harder and in my

opinion more expensive for the system as well as the individuals operating it.

Agile project management is not really different from other projects; however it more or

less requires another way of thinking however revolving around the same concept. The

first few steps such as defining, planning, executing and monitoring are still needed.

They are just done in a different process. Agile project management makes a

managers life easier by freeing him or her from task controlling to actually taking the

leadership role.

Agile management framework includes:

An intrinsic abilityto deal with change

A view of organizations as fluid, adaptive systems composed of intelligent living beings

A recognition of the limits of external control in establishing order, and of the role of

intelligent control that employs self-organization as a means of establishing order

An overall problem solving approach that is humanistic in that:

It regards employees as skilled and valuable stakeholders in the management of a

team.

It relies on the collective ability of autonomous teams as the basic problem solvingmechanism.

It limits up-front planning to a minimum based on an assumption of unpredictability,

and

instead, lays stress on adaptability to changing conditions. (ccpace2008)

Bibliography:

http://www.ccpace.com/resources/documents/agileprojectmanagement.pdf

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