What is Agile Project Managment?
This brief blog post teaches about Agile project management’s core values and principles. Consider this post a starting point for your quest to learn more about the subject.
What is Agile project management?
Agile project management is an incremental and iterative approach to managing projects that breaks down large projects into small, manageable tasks and incorporates feedback at each stage of a product cycle to make responsive changes. Sprints are essential to Agile project management. Sprints are what cause Agile project management to pivot to change. Agile project management was developed when software development teams aimed to get products to the market faster. Keep in mind that Agile project management aims for continuous improvement while aiding quick decision-making by promoting customer and user engagement.
In 2001, the Agile Manifesto was created, which presents four important values and 12 agile principles.
Agile Core Values:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
Working software over comprehensive documentation.
Customer collaboration over contract negotiations.
Responding to change over following a plan.
The 12 Agile Principles:
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
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