Agile Project Management Approaches

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AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPROACHES
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Introduction
Mainly aimed at facilitating continuous improvements, agile project management
approaches greatly increases project prospects for success. Different companies, however, use
different approaches to achieving their project management goals. Some of the frequently used
methods include Scrum, Kanban and lean. Google Company has been using the scrum approach;
Spotify uses Kanban approach while Government digital service utilizes the Lean project management
approach (Conforto and Amaral, 2016, p.10).
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As a huge company, every team of the Google Company has been operating differently because
the products are orthogonal to an extent that they require special treatment. A good example is
comparing the development process of google maps and that of google glass which has different
constraints and engineering specialties (Gold and Vassell, 2015, p.50). Google is famous for its rock
solid stability and quick iteration on its user’s feedback. Canary releases are among Google’s top secrets
which are aimed at ensuring stability and high-quality products. In canary release approach, Google
releases features to some of its users and if the features are not successful it reverts them to be fixed or
removed.
Spotify on the other hand, which is a music streaming service mainly on desktop and
smartphones providing a wide range of music served with virtually no lag uses Kanban in their
operations. The reason behind the adoption of this project management approach is because of the many
operations which are managed by a single operations team (Hoda and Murugesan, 2016, p.250). For
instance, at one moment the team may be designing a new site for the company and the next moment
will be modifying firewall rules for developers. Kanban approach has enabled the operations team to
plan far in advance while remaining proactive.