Project Management: Adopting Agile Methodology for Software Projects

This report explores the adoption of Agile methodology in project management, specifically within software development organizations. It highlights the shift from traditional methods like the waterfall model to Agile approaches, such as Scrum, emphasizing iterative development and continuous integration. The report presents case studies of companies in Australia and elsewhere that have successfully implemented Agile, demonstrating its benefits in terms of increased customer satisfaction and the ability to adapt to changing project requirements. It contrasts Agile with the stage-gate model, showcasing how Agile can minimize the changes needed to complete a project on time. The report concludes that adopting Agile methodology is justifiable due to its flexibility, adaptability, and reliance on customer feedback, making it suitable for modern IT projects.

Running head: ADOPT AGILE METHODOLOGY FOR A PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Adopt Agile Methodology for a Project Management
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Task A:
In any software organization, Software Development Life Cycle is the process followed
for specific software to enhance, develop, maintain, alter or replace to improve the software
quality and development process in whole. It is very important to choose the right model for the
development of software products and application. Today IT projects are aiming to develop a
fast-changing technology with agile methodology. There is a number of companies where the
implementation of agile software development increases. The same situation goes with the
Australian software organization where the local and reputed businesses follow the same trend.
The agile methodology uses phased planning or iterative and continuous integration (Flora &
Chande 2014, pp.3626-3637). This methodology will increase the satisfaction of the customer
with the collaborative measure. However, in combination with the traditional management of the
project, agile development methodology is feasible and preferable to any software organization.
A case study has done to support the evidence of the companies that adopt agile
methodology as a new software development method (Calitz, Cullen & Greyling 2015). The
company focuses on outsourcing firm where providing software solutions to various areas. They
have expertise in the area of JAVA, .NET and PHP who deliver mobile application, website
development mainly from Australia, United States and Asian nations. They all have an approach
to waterfall model in their project for about four years. It has found that the drawbacks of the
traditional method have affected the success of the project. In that case, the director of the
company decided to adopt the new software development methodology. Scrum is the part of the
agile project management that was adopted by the company.

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Another supporting evidence was the company that offer the solution and services of
software to each customer and businesses that aims at supplying business software in the market.
They have done it with innovative solutions and revolutionary ideas to provide the best quality
product. This company pays high attention to follow the customer-oriented concept and ensure
customers’ satisfaction. Even after offering adaptive, innovative and friendly products to
customers due to the approach to waterfall model there had limitations with the flexibility and
optimization that has prevented the company from reaching the development process. To address
the problem of the working model, the CEO then found the Scrum that is the part of the agile
methodology (Vlietland & van Vliet 2015).
Agile methods as compared to the traditional method are most suitable for the
development of the software projects just because of the duration of the development of the
project is short. When it is already increasing the satisfaction of the customer, it has found that
the implementation of the agile method has served a solution to change the requirement of the
projects rapidly. The stage-gate model has developed a lifecycle of the project management with
a different stage of the product development to manage the project (Mahadevan, Kettinger &
Meservy 2015, p.5). In contrast to management of the agile project and the stage-gate model,
agile can minimize the changes require to complete the product in time.
Thus, Adam concept of adopting Agile Methodology for the IT project is justifiable as it
uses phased planning or iterative and a continuous integration towards the life cycle of the
project. The agile method has considered the needs of the project flexibility and adaptability to
rely on customer feedback to change the requirement of the project in time.

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