Agile Project Management

Agile Project Management

Michelle Pelletier

MGMT 462

4/14/2014

Introduction

A project is a short-term activity to reach some specific objectives. At the present, organizations perform business operations in the form of projects, which are managed through some proper mechanism known as project management. Project management is a set of separate but interconnected tasks and is an important activity of more or less every organization in view of the fact that almost every organization at the present is concerned with some kind of project management. Project management is a methodical technique for managing and scheduling project resources and tasks from inauguration to completion. These tasks and resources are separated into five stages, i.e. initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and completion or termination of the project. This standardized format of project management can be used for almost every kind of project, its basic purpose being to systematize the different processes of project development (Haughey, 2009; TechTarget, 2008; Kerzner, 2009). In agile project management, iteration is an opportunity to go back over the plan and adjust to reality for the next iteration (Freedman, 2010). This paper presents a detailed analysis of the agile project management approach. The main purpose of this research is to discuss the agile project management with respect to aviation industry.

Agile Project Management

Traditional project management does not allow changing requirements during project development. However, project change is inevitable. Thus, to address this issue of traditional project management methodology, a new project management approach was introduced that is known as the agile method. This project management approach is straightforward and much faster than all other traditional project management methods. Agile project management methodologies are composed of iterations. Small teams work in partnership with project stakeholders to...