Leadership Management: Comparing Project Methodologies Report

This report provides a comparative analysis of two prominent project management methodologies: Agile and Waterfall. It begins by defining the concept of a methodology and its crucial role in project management, including planning, implementation, and objective achievement. The report then delves into the specifics of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, contrasting their approaches to project execution, team collaboration, and the handling of project changes. Agile is presented as a methodology that emphasizes communication, teamwork, and rapid development cycles, utilizing techniques like sprints and scrums. Waterfall, in contrast, is described as a more structured, sequential approach suitable for projects with well-defined requirements. The report highlights the similarities and differences between the two methodologies, discussing their relationship to the project life cycle and the factors that influence their selection for different project types. The report concludes by discussing the strengths of each methodology, with references to the sources used.

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Contents
Define what a methodology is and the role it serves in project management.................................2
Choose two methodologies from this list to compare and contrast.................................................2
Methodologies and processes relate to the project life cycle (PLC):..............................................3
References........................................................................................................................................5

Define what a methodology is and the role it serves in project management.
The methodology is about how the project managers are able to employ for the design, planning,
implementation and setting the achievement for the better project objectives. The adaptive
project framework is based on the time and cost which is considered to be constant for the
project scope with maximised business value. (Alliance, 2016). The project managers work on
delivering the projects and setting principles, themes, frameworks and processes that are sets to
provide a stack with PMBOK or XP. This includes the delivering of the projects which includes
the proper working collaboration and responding to the changeover following a plan. The set of
values are defined with the principles to follow the process that needs to be applied to a
particular object. Through this, there is also a major possibility to work on the individuals and
the interactions over processes and tools so that there is an easy methodology setup.
Choose two methodologies from this list to compare and contrast
Agile Methodology: This is based on the project management, where there is a need of handling
adequate delivery of the process with improved framework that has been put to practice. The
goal of the same is to improve the communication, teamwork and the development speed.
(Sharma et al., 2017). Through this, there is a possibility to handle the sprints, scrums and the
backlogs which are set with the ongoing framework development and maintaining the complex
products. The approach is based on defining and setting the roles, to meet the tools in effective
manner. The incremental forms of the delivery are found to be valuable with the easy shipping
functionality. Agile is considered to be the technology which is for the setup for the self-
management of the teams and for delivering and defining the goals that would be to create the
health tension which would advocate for the small and the cross-functional team of people upto 9
in number. The collection is for the user stories defined under the product ownership.

Waterfall methodology: This is based on handling the SDLC where there is a proper project
management approach to work on planning and handling the agile approach as well. The
planning is based on charging and working over the plans which adhere to the requirements and
delivering the project. The requirements need to be defined with the plans adapted through the
necessary changes. (Ghafoor et al., 2017). The designing, implementation, testing and the
maintenance is possible through this, where the approach mainly reflects about the scope to
handle and revise the concepts related to the testing stage.
Similarities and differences
Methodologies and processes relate to the project life cycle (PLC):
The agile technology is based on advocating with the cross-functional team where there is a need
to handle the development with the team report. It works with the development and improvement
in the progress of the team. (Campbell et al., 2016). The technology is facilitated mainly by
enabling and leading the demos and the reviews with proper and best working. The optimisation

and improvement is designed through the software development where there are other agile
artefacts that could be leveraged and set in the creative agency world. The standards for the
development project include the agile methods where there is a possibility to work in fixed
budgets with providing heavy constraints.
Waterfall is considered as one of the project where the requirements are fixed in a well-
documented and clear manner. The technology is understood with the project that is short with
no additional value which is gained from going agile. The approach of the project is to handle the
details under a particular budget, with timeline and scope. The tasks and the testing stages are
examined with the forms that include the changes that are designed in the concept stages.
References
Alliance, S. (2016). What is Scrum? An Agile Framework for Completing Complex Projects-
Scrum Alliance. Scrum Alliance. Available at: https://www. scrumalliance. org.
Campbell, J., Kurkovsky, S., Liew, C. W., & Tafliovich, A. (2016, February). Scrum and agile
methods in software engineering courses. In Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical
Symposium on Computing Science Education (pp. 319-320). ACM.
Ghafoor, F., Shah, I. A., & Rashid, N. (2017). Issues in Adopting Agile Methodologies in Global
and Local Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review Protocol with
Preliminary Results. International Journal of Computer Applications, 160(7).
Sharma, A., & Bali, M. (2017). Comparative Study on Software Development Methods: Agile vs
Scrum.