Mapping Agile Practices to Project Management Challenges

Saya Sone

ISBN 10: 3659924164 / ISBN 13: 9783659924163

Published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Aug 2016, 2016

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Neuware -Agile project management (APM) is praised to execute projects faster and to develop software with higher customer satisfaction. Traditional project management (TPM) methods consist of step-by-step, detailed process groups with its formal project plans, well documented customer requirements, and detailed product designs. When dealing with changes, it often put Project Management Triangle (Cost, Schedule, and scope) in dilemma, how is APM credited to use its four major values, interacting with skilled individuals, delivering working software products, establishing close interaction with customers, and adopting changes to overcome the challenge The purposes of this study were to examine whether the use of APM practices helps alleviate project management challenges better than TPM practices and to provide an in-depth understanding of the relationships between APM practices and their effects on common project management challenges. The study is based on qualitative research method by interviewing software project management professionals who shared their real life experiences. The results were organized and utilized to help complete the mapping APM practices to those challenges.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 200 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping Agile Practices to Project Management Challenges
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Aug 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659924164
• ISBN 13: 9783659924163
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 13D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 316 grams

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Synopsis

Agile project management (APM) is praised to execute projects faster and to develop software with higher customer satisfaction. Traditional project management (TPM) methods consist of step-by-step, detailed process groups with its formal project plans, well documented customer requirements, and detailed product designs. When dealing with changes, it often put Project Management Triangle (Cost, Schedule, and scope) in dilemma, how is APM credited to use its four major values, interacting with skilled individuals, delivering working software products, establishing close interaction with customers, and adopting changes to overcome the challenge? The purposes of this study were to examine whether the use of APM practices helps alleviate project management challenges better than TPM practices and to provide an in-depth understanding of the relationships between APM practices and their effects on common project management challenges. The study is based on qualitative research method by interviewing software project management professionals who shared their real life experiences. The results were organized and utilized to help complete the mapping APM practices to those challenges.

About the Author

Dr. Saya Sone, an Enterprise Agile Coach, Executive Life Coach, specializing in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), is a seasonal organizational change leader and has successfully led multiple rollouts for large and complex information system projects in the public and private sectors for more than two decades. She teaches graduate courses in DC area.