What is Agile Project Management?
Nowadays the world “Agile” is in trend, which in full variant is, Agile Project Management. What is it and why is it attractive?
Agile Project Management, or just Agile, is comparatively new format of project management. Its sense is in organization of productive projects and in their flexible management. The demand in such type of a manageable format appeared in terms of quickly changing markets, firstly and foremostly, in the sphere of high technologies, electronic communications and IT. Today the term of resistance in business has become more then relative and conventional. A problem not only to produce, but also to sell final product before it, has not become old morally and technologically has appeared before business. In other words, factor of time has become critical as it has never been before.
Flexible project management is based on several systemic for its principles: Limited perception of yourself in “difficult moving environment”
- Strict understanding of what consumers are ready to pay for and what they will be ready to pay for tomorrow
- Readiness for an experiment and refusal from unworkable ideas, approaches, instruments and even development
- Permanent improvement of your commercial offers and technological decisions
- Ability to reconsider your plans
The main advantage of Agile as a new style of projects management is that it allows to optimize expenditures, working loads, time limits and logistics, and also with high level of possibility to guarantee realization of a final product.
What is the content of the flexible project management? The following features of Agile as a management style are considered as the main ones:
- Orientation on quick growth in a changing environment;
- Longing for optimal business- model;
- Self-management in working project team;
- The highest level of expertness as an entrance ticket to the team;
- Client-orientation as a defining working principle and customization as its characteristic feature;
- Feedback with the market as a necessary term for project realization in the regime of permanent correction;
- Readiness for that the final product could be different a lot from the one, foreseen in the beginning;
- Work in short queues with small, but functioning, products release.