Project Management Design Management - 1278 Words

Project management is a tool that the organization can use to eliminate waste, increase capacity, or increase positioning in the market place. The concept of project management is broad with methodology dating back across the decades. Project management itself is not new; however, methodologies associated with project management have continued to develop and change over time. Specifically, during the last two decades, the Agile methodology was introduced to project management. In recent years, merging of agile methodology and project management is occurring. Agile project management can be explored by researching agile methodology in software engineering. Agile project management combines the flexibility and responsiveness of agile†¦show more content†¦The agile manifesto allows for flexibility and responsiveness by prioritizing people over procedures, the opposite of the project management framework. In addition to flexibility and responsiveness, Agile project management focuses on continuous planning, execution, and feedback. Agile methods are designed to adapt quickly to changes; whereas more traditional methods focus on planning the future in detail. Agile methodologies are able to more efficiently bring advances to a project (City A.M., 2015). Research shows that agile methodologies are increasingly popular because it helps employees avoid delivering a wasting time completing a project that is later realized to be the complete antithesis of what was truly needed (Pozzebon, 2015). In short, â€Å"agile methodologies enable you to do is deliver something quickly but then adapt it and change it at a given point in time based on what you now know and what you ve already implemented† (Sunday Business Post, 2012)). Agile is juxtapose to traditional project management. Traditional project management methodology is focused on the sequential lifecycle of a project, referred to as waterfall. Waterfall projects are common in the construction of infrastructure such as the construction of a bridge, electrical substation or a highway. The waterfall