Agile Project Management Techniques and Methodologies

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AGILE PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT
• Introduction
• Agile project management process
• Difference in traditional framework
and the agile model
• Agile Framework
• Why to use agile framework
• Scaled agile framework
• Different alternative to agile PM
methodologies
• Scrum as an alternative to agile
• Kanban as an agile
alternative
• Development and
operation of agile
(DevOps)
• Agile estimation
techniques
• Story point estimation in
agile
• Planning poker
• Conclusion
• references

INTRODUCTION
• Agile project management is considered as an interactive approach that helps
the company in guiding and planning the project processes.
• This is considered as the plan which helps in breaking down the projects into
small pieces so as to complete the work session in time.
• This helps in designing and providing the quality assurance to the company
so that they are able to achieve objective of maximising the performance.
here the sessions are run in the software to increase the management of the
project.

AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS
• The manager of the companies must have a great
knowledge about agile project management to
inculcate agile project management within the
company
• Manager should check that the agile project
management emphasis on the fact that entire team is
tightly integrated with each other.
• Frequent communication is adopted in the team as the
key to integration.
• Deliveries are considered to be short term which are
known as sprints.
• There should be open communication techniques and
tools within the organisation.

DIFFERENCE IN TRADITIONAL
FRAMEWORK AND THE AGILE MODEL
Fixed Requirements
Resources Time
Estimated Resources Time
Features
Waterfall Agile

AGILE FRAMEWORK
• There are various agile frameworks that are helps
in increasing the performance of the company.
These includes the following:
• Scrum(Ken Scwaber)
• XP(Kent Beck)
• Lean software development(Mary Poppenndieck)
• Crystal
• Dynamic system development method
• Adaptive software development.

WHY TO USE AGILE FRAMEWORK
• The framework is considered to be simpler and lighter in
weight, also it helps in expanding and handling the need of
complex structure of the organisation. through this
framework following benefits are resourced by the
company which includes:
• Increase in productivity of the company by 20-40%
• Increase in quality of the products by 50%
• Faster integration of time to market by 30-75%
• Increase in the employees engagement and satisfaction
towards their job.

SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK
• SAFe was developed in the year 2011 where it was officially released in this
year.
• Scaled agile framework is considered as the freely available online
knowledge tool that helps in allowing lean practice within the organisation.
• This helps in providing a simple light weight experience for the software
development team through which the software is developed.
• There are tree segment under which the SAFe whole framework is divided ,
this includes team, program and portfolio.

DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVE TO AGILE PM
METHODOLOGIES
• A methodology is define as the
process that helps in defining
the system of practice and the
techniques to increase the
productivity of the company.
• There are various examples of
risk management policies
which includes lean practices,
Kanban, six sigma, Scrum ban
and many more.
• These helps in
assisting the project
manager throughout
the project and also
specifies the steps
that are to be taken to
complete the tasks on
time.
• Hence these different
methods has different
strategies to be
followed.

SCRUM AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO AGILE
• The scrum project management system comprises
of the five values that are attributed to the project
so as to manage it.
• The goal of this system is to collaborate,
accountability and making the process more
interactive.
• The distinguishing factor of the scrum management
is how it operates certain factor by using certain
roles, events and the artefacts which are related the
company .

KANBAN AS AN AGILE ALTERNATIVE
• This is the factor that relates to the popular agile
framework, but it is similar to scrum.
• This has early access to the collaborative and self
managing teams.
• This was developed in the production line of Toyota
factories.
• This is a visual method which aims to deliver high
qualities of result through the concept of painting a
picture.
• This generates on six practices.

DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF AGILE
(DevOps)
• DevOps is considered as an phrase where the
development of the enterprise software is done by the
company.
• This is used to make an agile relationship between the
development and IT operations.
• The goal of DevOps is to enhance the relationship
through better communication and collaboration among
the units of the company.
• This has three phases which includes the DevOps in
Enterprise, DevOps in the culture and DevOps in the
professional principles