Agile Project Management: A Comprehensive Overview and Analysis

This presentation provides a comprehensive introduction to Agile Project Management. It begins by defining Agile and contrasting it with the Waterfall methodology. The presentation then outlines the core principles of Agile, including individual and team interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. It explores the benefits of Agile, such as better stakeholder engagement, increased transparency, and improved product quality, while also acknowledging its disadvantages, such as potential resource planning inefficiencies and fragmented documentation. The presentation further delves into alternative Agile methods like Kanban and Scrumban, and introduces Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). It covers Agile development methodologies, operational aspects, and estimation techniques, including Planning Poker and affinity grouping. The stages of Agile estimation are discussed, along with the purpose of estimation in Agile project management. Finally, it explains Agile story cards, story point estimations, and budget calculation in Agile, concluding with recommendations for successful Agile implementation and a list of relevant references. This presentation is a valuable resource for anyone looking to understand or implement Agile Project Management principles.

AGILE PROJECT
MANAGENT

INTRODUCTION
This presentation will deal about the basic terminology that will be
helpful in understanding the functional part or the Agile method
implementation. Agile project management has been benefitting the
project management process in a drastic manner.

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
Agile methodology is one of the major project management methodology
that is used in commencing project management in a drastic manner.
Replacing waterfall model and gaining acceptance has been one of the
major reason that this preparation of power point will be important

ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED
This power point will discuss about the functional process of Agile
methodology. Benefits and disadvantages of the same is also discussed.
Operational process of Agile method is also discussed. Recommendations
to avoid the issues will also be stated in the power point.

UNUSUAL TERMS
• Waterfall methodology: A project management methodology that was
used before introduction of Agile methodology
• Lean software development: translates lean manufacturing principles
and functional practices as per the software domain.

AGILE METHOD
• Agile method is one of the most used terminology that provides a
continuous iteration process. Concurrency in the testing and
development process is efficient unlike the waterfall model

AGILE METHOD
The 4 cores of Agile methodology are as follows: -
• Individual and team interaction based tools
• Software that enhances comprehensive documentation
• Collaboration amongst the customer and contract negotiation
• Processing changes as per the plan

BENEFITS
The major benefits of using Agile methodology are as follows: -
• Better Stakeholder engagement
• Higher transparency
• Better estimation and predictability
• Predicted costs

BENEFITS
The major benefits of using Agile methodology are as follows: -
• Has a scope of change
• Business Value is the major concern
• Quality of the products are better

DISADVANTAGES
Disadvantages of using Agile methodologies are as follows: -
• Resource planning is not very efficient
• Documentation process is not very distinct
• Output generated is fragmented

DISADVANTAGES
Disadvantages of using Agile methodologies are as follows: -
• There is no distinct end to the project
• Measurement process gets difficult (Cooper 2016)

PERIODIC RECAPITULATION
• Agile was initiated in the year 2001.
• Initially waterfall methodology was used but due to the issues in the
waterfall methodology, Agile method was introduced.

ALTERNATIVE AGILE PM
Kanban: Kanban Method is a design that is used for improving the flow
system that will be used in knowledge work. This will help in better
analysis of the existing workflow. A limit in work in progress is taken into
consideration

ALTERNATIVE AGILE PM
• Scrumban: Scurmban is considered as a hybrid project management
methodology. This project management methodology is hybrid between
the Kanban and Agile project management method. Minimizing of the
batching helps in adopting the pull based system

SCALED AGILE METHODOLOGY
Scaled Agile Framework is now available freely and is available as per the
knowledge that is available online. This aspect takes into consideration
light weight experiences. The three segments are namely Team, Program
and Portfolio.

AGILE DEVELOPMENT
The methodologies used in Agile development includes Scrum, Crystal
methodologies, Dynamic Software development method, Feature driven
development, Lean software development and Extreme Programming
(Soni and Kohli 2017).

OPERATION
Agile Operation is diversified as per DevOps.
The pillars of the Agile operations are as follows: -
• Individual interaction process (Dubey and Gunasekaran 2015).
• Implementing software over comprehensive documentation
• Performing collaboration among customer
Performing proper response

AGILE ESTIMATION
Agile estimation techniques are as follows: -
• Planning Poker (Ebert and Paasivaara 2017)
• Affinity grouping
• Forecasting Schedule and budget

STAGES OF AGILE ESTIMATION
The stages are as follows: -
• Design
• Coding
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• Acceptance testing

PURPOSE OF ESTIMATION IN AGILE PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
The main reason of implementing estimation in agile project
management is that with the help of this technique proper planning of
the functional management can be made. Hence increasing the
predictability will occur and undesired outcomes can be avoided (Batra
2018).

AGILE STORY CARDS
Agile story cards or user stories are mainly concerned with the informal
and natural language precision of exclusive features of the software.
User stories are mainly are performed as a vision of the user. This
aspects are mainly recorded in the index cards.

STORY POINTS ESTIMATIONS IN AGILE
The steps that are to be taken by the performing story points estimation
are as follows: -
• Analyze user stories
• Choosing of another story a per the current product backlog
• Prepare a list for creation of alteration (Conforto and Amaral 2016).

CALCULATING THE BUDGET IN AGILE
The main steps that are taken for calculating in Agile are as follows: -
• Using a blended rate
• Using specific Labor charges (Fernandez and Fernandez 2018)

CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be stated that better management of the
entire scenario gets performed in a better manner after implementing
the Agile methodology. After implementation of the Agile methodology
decision making gets easier and hence acceptance of this method is
high.

RECOMMENDATION
• Development of life cycle must be well collaborated with integrated
testing
• Self organizing teams must be established
• Proper communication must be enhanced

REFERENCES
• Conforto, E.C. and Amaral, D.C., 2016. Agile project management and stage-gate model—A hybrid framework for technology-based
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• Ebert, C. and Paasivaara, M., 2017. Scaling agile. IEEE Software, 34(6), pp.98-103.
• Dubey, R. and Gunasekaran, A., 2015. Agile manufacturing: framework and its empirical validation. The International Journal of
Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 76(9-12), pp.2147-2157.
• Cooper, R.G., 2016. Agile–Stage-Gate Hybrids: The Next Stage for Product Development Blending Agile and Stage-Gate methods
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pp.21-29.
• Fernandez, D.J. and Fernandez, J.D., 2018. Agile project management—agilism versus traditional approaches. Journal of Computer
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• Batra, D., 2018. Large-Scale Agile Methodology Acceptance.
• Soni, D. and Kohli, P.J., 2017. Cost estimation model for web applications using agile software development methodology. Pertanika
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