SO, WHAT IS AGILE?

Agile Project Management (APM) describes an iterative approach to project preparation and direction.

ITERATIVE? What does that mean?

The key benefit of Agile Project Management is the ability to address problems when they emerge in the project.

Making a required adjustment to a project at the right time will save money and eventually help deliver on schedule and within budget a good project.

Agile Project approach breaks down projects into small parts which are completed in work sessions ranging from the design phase to testing and quality control (QA).

The Agile Technique helps teams to release segments when they finish.

This continuous release schedule helps teams to prove successful in these segments and, if not, easily repair flaws.

The idea is that this will minimize the risk of large-scale failures, as the lifecycle of the project is constantly improving.

Agile Project Management also calls for teams to constantly measure time and expense as they progress through their work.

To calculate their work, they use velocity, burndown, and burnup maps, instead of Gantt maps and project milestones to track progress.

Agile Project Management doesn't need a project manager to be present or active.

While a project manager is necessary for success under the conventional methodologies of project delivery, such as the waterfall model (where the position manages the budget, staff, project scope, quality, specifications, and other key elements), the task of project manager under APM is distributed among team members.

The agile theory is based on motivated people and their experiences, and early and consistent value creation to an organization.

Agile project management focuses on yielding maximum value in the time and budget available against the business goals, particularly when the desire to deliver is greater than the risk.

Principles include: the project splits a requirement into smaller bits, which in terms of priority are then prioritized by the team.

The agile project promotes collaborative work, especially with clients.

The agile project incorporates, develops, and improves at regular intervals to ensure that the consumer is always happy and that outcomes that result in benefits are given.

Agile approaches combine preparation with implementation, creating a working mentality for an organization that makes a team adapt effectively to evolving requirements.

• Agile strategies empower those involved; create accountability; foster diversity of ideas; enable early release of benefits; and facilitate quality improvement.
  
• Agile helps create consumer and user loyalty as improvements are gradual and evolutionary rather than revolutionary: therefore, it can be successful in promoting cultural change that is necessary for most transformation projects to succeed.
  
• Agile allows the' gremlins ' decision to be checked and discarded early: the close feedback loops have benefits that are not as apparent in the waterfall.