Traditional and Agile Project Management Methodology

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Introduction
This essay contains two important project management related
methodologies including traditional and also Agile project management
methodology. In this essay, both of the methodologies clearly defines
through the whole lifespan of the project. Moreover, the risk management
is essential part in the field of project management and this technique
offers a process for avoidance of risks from the projects.
Traditional project management
Traditional project management is measured as the utilization of
knowledge as well as skills or tools and also techniques related with
project actions for achieving the requirements of project. Moreover, this
kind of project management consists of five stages including initiating,
planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and also closing under the
supervision of the project manager or project team (Landry and McDaniel
2016). Fundamentally, the project management is an approach of
completing projects under such factors like scope, time, cost or risk within
a certain framework along with the prearrangement of stakeholders’
requirements by using various knowledge areas that are related with
project management including scope, time, communication, risk, cost,
stakeholders, quality, procurement, integration and also human resources
management (Wells, Dalcher and Smyth 2015). All of these processes are
characterised into five types of process groups such as initiating process
group, planning process group, executing process group, monitoring and
controlling process group and also closing process group.
These kinds of process groups were mainly utilized for describing such
elements related with Traditional project management and the other
elements are categorized by the organizations and also detailing of the
planning involving task breakdown as well as task allocation and also
compliances along with the milestones, prearrangement of the
requirements of stakeholders and also leadership (Kaczorowska 2015). As
stated by the PMBOK, this Traditional project management is an
integration of process group which can allow a guidance to the project
management by applying each of the process group based knowledge as
well as skills. These process groups are connected with each other with
their outputs which they have produced (Marle and Vidal 2016). That
means, the output of each process group acts as an input of the next
process group.

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In the case of traditional project management, project success is generally
depends on three important factors such as scope as well as time and also
cost. But as per the recent project developments, it has been noticed that
some others factors are also depended to achieve the project success and
they are business results and also preparation for future or some learning
lessons, all of them are considered at the evaluation time of the projects.
Though working in energy management as a facility manager, the main
responsibilities are to provide the facilities for achieving the requirements
of the employees as well as consumers of any particular organization by
minimizing the cost of energy based processes including the supplying of
energy, distribution and also utilization. In this field, the traditional project
management methodology helps a lot because this process includes the
five main steps by which the facility manger can understand the overall
project of energy management. Though, one of the important dependable
factor of this project management is cost therefore it helps me to
understand the estimated cost for the energy project. However, by using
this project management, the organization has set a baseline for the total
cost for the energy oriented services and by following this methodology, I
will be biased in my workings for providing the facilities to the customers
by reducing energy costs.
Agile/ Adaptive project management
The Agile project management is a combination of concepts of Traditional
project management and this methodology is flexible or lightweight or
made of practices. Generally, the concepts of the Agile project
management is inclined with the Agile software development techniques
(Kuchta, Pierrick and Ptaszyńska 2016). There are several development
related methods available in this Agile methodology like Scrum, Extreme
Programming or Lean with the help of a number of practices. This
methodology is made of short type of delivery iterations along with the
continuous learning at the starting time of project. The team arranges a
planning phase, project requirements as well as solution designs for
beginning the project (Ramazani and Jergeas 2015). However, the project
team involves with the influences of iterations which contains of detailing
of planning phase, analysis of requirements as well as design, execution,
tests and also delivery to the consumers or stakeholders.

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This project management approach provides an allowance of the instance
revision of projects based on their requirements and the operations are
occurred in each of the iterations. Moreover, this project management
approach is basically the feature based methodology (Kaur and Bahl
2015). This approach provides a full concentration to define the project
scope and arranges the project features as well as project requirements
as per their values. It is very crucial to understand the customers
involvement in the project scope as well as requirement analysis. This
Agile project management includes the collaborative development or
management for delivering the outcomes and collects the feedback from
the customers so that it can help to continuous improvements within the
projects. Though this approach is iterative in nature, therefore the team
members and also stakeholders provides a collaborative effort for
understanding the project domain and also identifies the requirements.
In this project management methodology, one of the unique
characteristics is that every iteration is basically self-contained in
character wise along with the project activities from the requirement
analysis to the designing phase as well as implementation and also
testing (Fichera 2016). At the ending phase of each of the iteration, the
customers provide a feedback which may use to refine the project
requirements or features. Fundamentally, this project management
methodology is based on the value oriented delivery for satisfying the
customers’ requirements from the starting period of projects and
continuous improvements according to product value.
In the energy management, though I will be working as facility manager,
therefore the main responsibility is to provide the best support services to
the customers by minimizing costs. Though the Agile project management
is based on the customers’ feedback, therefore it is more effective than
traditional project management in the case of energy management. As a
facility manager, I follow such steps in this methodology and at the first
step, it requires to gather the information regarding the customers’
requirements and then it needs to deter mine project scope as well as
project requirements based on the customers’ needs. Through this
methodology, I have designed a solution by prioritizing tasks in the third
step. After completing the design method, I have communicated to all of
my team members for discussing this design solution and started the
project. After completion of projects, it requires to test the functions for
checking whether it is correct or not. If the functions are correct, as a