Agile Project Management Methodologies: A Comparative Analysis

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Agile project
management

Introduction & definition
• Deliver basic requirements
• Life cycle of the overall project
• Exhibit central values
• Ensure the behavior of trust & empowerment
• New innovative ways are being introduced

Agile project management
methodology
• Utilized for the software developers
• Educational institutions or organizations
• Construction companies
• Marketing teams & members in different business
organizations
• Diverse & unique methodologies

List of Agile project
management methodologies
• Agile
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Lean
• Waterfall
• Six sigma
• PMI/ PMBOK

Agile
• Iterative as well as the incremental projects
• Cross-functional teams
• Enhancing customer collaboration
• Effectively responding towards all the changes
• Higher level of satisfaction of all the customers
• Enhancing trust & motivation among all the people
• Higher quality of the results
• Continuous improvement

Scrum
• Sprint planning
• Sprint review
• Short teams including less number of people
• Flexible approach
• Enhancing the necessary improvements
• Group of professionals

Kanban
• Collaborative as well as the self-managing teams
• Deliver the higher quality of results
• Enhancing the effective practices
• Continuous improvement
• Smaller teams
• Enhancement of the personal productivity

Lean
• Maximizing the value of customers
• Reducing the waste
• Improves the production
• Based on the effective & standard principles
• Effective implementation of the processes

Waterfall
• Traditional methodology
• Linear approach of sequential design
• Lack of flexibility
• Importance of documentation
• Software development
• Larger projects
• More expensive

Six sigma
• Improving the quality
• Eliminating the errors
• Improving the processes of business
• Improving team performance
• Reducing the increasing variations
• Methodology of Lean Six Sigma

PMI/ PMBOK
• Association of non profit membership
• Set of standards
• Guidelines for project management
• Best techniques & practices
• Major steps in the process

Scaled agile framework by
pwc Australia
• Organizational patterns
• Scaling lean & agile practices
• Following is the work designed by the business
managers of Pwc Australia in the context of Agile
framework
Strategy
agility
Model of
Agile
Operating
Creation of
Agile
business
case
Agile
mindsets
and
collaborati
on
Agile
transformat
ion
strategy
and
roadmaps