Benefits of Agile Project Management Methodologies for IT Projects

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES
Project Management Methodologies
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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................2
Background:................................................................................................................................................2
Popular Type of Agile Project Methodologies:............................................................................................4
Extreme Programming:............................................................................................................................4
Scrum:.....................................................................................................................................................4
Feature Driven Development:.................................................................................................................4
Crystal Method:.......................................................................................................................................5
Literature review:........................................................................................................................................5
Benefit of the Agile type of Methodology for the IT Projects:.....................................................................8
Handling Change Requirement:...............................................................................................................8
Detection of Faults:.................................................................................................................................8
Increased Performance:..........................................................................................................................8
Incremental and Iterative Delivery:.........................................................................................................9
Design Related Flexibility:........................................................................................................................9
Quality Related Improvements:...............................................................................................................9
Limitations:................................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................................11
References:................................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction:
Project management is very much important concept for successful completion of a project. A
perfect project management is required for managing different types of project management
procedures (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017). In this aspect a perfect project management methodologies is
required so that each of the individual projects can be managed very easily. The project management
methodologies are very much useful for helping the managers in every stage of the project which starts
from project initiation to project closure. The project management methodology is actually a model
which is used by the project managers to planning, designing, achievement and implementation of the
project related objectives (Saltz & Crowston, 2017). Different types of project management
methodologies are capable of benefitting different types of projects. In this context the project manager
needs choose appropriate type of project management methodologies for their projects. In IT related
projects one of the main constrains is the development of software. In this context the best way of
development of the software is implementing the agile project management methodologies.
Considering the above factors of the agile project management methodologies how this
methodology is used in the big IT projects such as development of the software technologies will be
discussed in this research paper. For the brief discussion, background of the agile project management
methodologies will be discussed. Following that popular type of agile project methodologies will be
discussed. In the further section limitation of this agile project management methodologies will be
discussed in this context.