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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3
Implementation of Agile Project Management ..................Error! Bookmark not defined.
Impacts of Agile Project on Traditional Project ................Error! Bookmark not defined.
Impact of Agile Project Management on the Future professions ....................................... 6
Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 10
References ........................................................................................................................ 12
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Introduction
Many organizations today are increasingly moving towards management project-based
organizations. This is majorly because according such initiatives have been deemed to be
intensive in the sense that companies will record improved performance. Project
management’s ability to enhance flexibility, remove organizational bureaucracy, power
to companies more adaptive to change have been cited as the major drivers for this
paradigm shift. Agile management is an advance and a more unique project management
technique that demonstrates various guidelines as needed by project administrators.
Project management can never be thought as merely a tool, but a set of regulations used
by the project managers.
Therefore, this paper will focus about the objectives, advantages and limitations of the
Agile project management and will disclose why advance management tools are steadily
rising as management techniques.
Implementation of Agile Project Management
The ever-changing business demands, drivers and requirements call for a project
management approach that is flexible and adaptable to giving the desired
products/services faster and with more customer satisfaction. The failure of the traditional
project management approaches to cater for such demands have necessitated the
evolution of Agile project management. Agile project management methodologies are
increasingly becoming quite popular across different businesses and hence there is need
to understand their foundation, applicability and even implications to other business
industries like consulting firms. This is particularly very important if one should
considers the successes registered in all other industries and the recent efforts reached as
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well as the rise in interest to explore the relevance of agile concepts to the construction
and manufacturing sectors where its implementation has led to improved project
managers’ effectiveness in unpredictable environments.
Although Agile project management methodologies emerged from software engineering,
they were initially referred to as light weight approaches before the adoption of the term
"Agile" to disclose their impacts on projects experiencing very high levels of change. To
this stance, however, it is somewhat controversial because Aguanno combines both the
lean factor and agility. According to Bontis, N. (2008) the governing principles of APM
and practices are closely hinged on more new science theories of more complex adaptive
systems. This complexity is popularly derived from the theory that was defined as the
basic study of how the order and patterns arise from apparently disoriented systems. It is
more concerned with the functionality of complex behavior and structures that emerge
from the simple underlying rules as evident in the flocking of birds and many ant
colonies.
Cheng, C.H. et al (2005) states that the agile systems have self-organizing ability and are
more capable of adapting to many environmental changes even when their behavior is not
governed by any central regulations. Since the system encourages interaction among
other sub-parts or between the environment and the systems to establish any adaptive
behavior, its application to project governance may eliminate some of the prevalent
weaknesses associated with the traditional project management due to its content and
flexibility on specific approaches to management. It is thus, interesting to note that a
complex global behavior in this system is a result of the simple, localized rules that guide
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the system interactions between the semi-autonomous entities (Augustine and Woodcock,
2008). And as Elliot (2008) postulates, when this systemic concept is applied to project
governance, it will eventually yield more time for the project managers to concentrate on
other pertinent issues as opposed to manpower control because agents will be semiautonomous. However, it can be argued out that the potential generalizability of such
findings have individualized pitfalls.
Impact of Agile Project on Traditional project Management
Agile Project Management’s Approach has widely impacted on the Traditional
Management Projects, since it mainly focuses on short and the incremental iterative
development of systemic projects ). Similarly, the system takes into cognizance the
phases of the TPM .
However it largely differs from the spiral provision because it emphasizes on
collaboration and iterations which are conducted over a very short period of time, mainly
weeks as opposed to months. This iterative aspect of APM makes it more suitable for
projects that are conducted during conditions where uncertainty and rapidly changing
environments exist. In Agile Project Management, only a few of the ranked requirements
get selected for outward developments at each stage. Just like in the TPM system, the
subset of selected modalities is then analyzed, developed, subjected to tests and may even
be evaluated during a short, fixed time limit of iteration. Furthermore, risk assessment is
also implemented in this specific system to minimize the effect of projected risks in the
given portfolio and thus making this process appear robust.
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Meetings with organizational stakeholders and also project units for feedback on the
incremental development are a regular provision in the APM approach when compared to
the problem solving. In addition to this feature, lessons learnt and many other
recommendations for future are gathered in the meetings and used to improve the
foregoing iteration. Thus, this specific APM approach is such that as opposed to trying to
develop the entire system in one setting, the system is sub-divided into a number of
iterations with each adding some functionality or even perhaps improved performances to
its predecessors. The most important feature of the APM system is that there are lots of
continuous collaborations between consultant and the clientele during the progressive
project development which then enhances deeper understanding of both the business and
the technical necessities for the development of subsequent iterations. To this effect, the
benefits of such approach is well documented, offering more improved managerial and
inter-personnel skills, customer responsiveness, speedy procession, flexibility, high
quality and evident predictability. Additionally, it may also be issued that by achieving
the benefits the organization may also witness downstream gains through cost
minimization, short time deliveries that helps in dealing with more clients and with
increased customer satisfaction which results in good customer retention.
Impacts of Agile Project Management on future profession
Although APM offers a lot of hope to future professionals, the proje...