Agile Project Management: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Comparison

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
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Executive Summary
The paper aims in discussing the concept of agile project management methodology that is most
commonly used in handling and managing the complex software projects. The paper will provide
a brief overview of the history of origin of this particular system development method and will
try to examine the advantages and disadvantages of using this methodology in management of
the software projects. It is integral to understand the basic feature of methodology to judge the
effectiveness and implementation of the particular methodology in a project. The approach of
agile project management provides the project team to make use of new methods in management
of a project. In the last few years, although there have been a steady increase of the different
project methodologies, the importance of agile methodology has not decreased. This is one
primary reason why hiring managers considered agile certification as a must need requirement
for working in their firm.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
1. Agile Methodology: Overview........................................................................................3
1.1. General Principle of Agile........................................................................................4
2. History of Agile...............................................................................................................5
3. Advantages......................................................................................................................6
4. Disadvantages..................................................................................................................8
5. Comparison of Agile with other project methodologies................................................10
5.1. Difference between agile and traditional development model...............................10
5.2. Agile vs Scrum.......................................................................................................11
6. Success and Failure Stories/ Application/Industry use..................................................12
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................12
References..........................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The paper introduces the readers with the concept of agile project management approach
and its use in managing software projects. The market opportunity of agile is quite strong and
therefore, the agile project management methods are being embraced by a number of business
organization across the world. In this paper, the history of origin of this methodology is
discussed and agile methodology is being compared with the other project management
methodology. The agile project management approach makes use of iterative development and
prototyping approach to deliver products as per the requirements of the customers (Conforto et
al., 2014). The paper discusses the advantages of agile along with both positive and negative
impacts of agile project methodology. One of the most significant criticism linked with agile
methodology is that it fails to pay attention to the basic architectural designing issues. Therefore,
it is crucial to identify the impact of agile methodology in development processes of software.
The paper will compare agile approach with other software development methodologies in order
to identify the major advantages and the significant disadvantages of making use of agile project
methodology. One of the main characteristics of agile methodology is that it makes use of short
iterations needed for effective project delivery. Agile is quite different from the traditional
methodologies as the former is quite efficient in management of the rapid change requirements
(Larson & Gray, 2017). The report provides a description of the key benefits of software
development process by making use of agile project methodology (Špundak, 2014). The history,
advantages, disadvantages and the comparison of the methodology with other methodologies are
indicated in the paragraphs below.
1. Agile Methodology: Overview