What’s Different about Agile?
Agile is advancing rapidly up project management and systems development agendas worldwide. Specific approaches such as Scrum are becoming mainstream. It’s not new. DSDM has origins in the 1990s. The Agile Manifesto was written by advocates of iterative and incremental development methods in 2001.
The table below is derived from the 2005 book “Challenges of Migrating to Agile Methodologies” by Sridhar P Nerur (et al).
The vital issue for those attracted to the concept of Agile is, for any given situation, to balance the benefits of a responsive and flexible approach with one that imposes more rigour and discipline.
| Traditional | Agile | |
| Control | Process Centric | People Centric |
| Management Style | Command & Control | Leadership & Collaboration |
| Knowledge Mgt | Explicit | Tacit |
| Role Assignment | Individual | Self Organising Team |
| Communication | Formal | Informal |
| Customer Role | Important | Critical |
| Project Cycle | Guided by Tasks/Activities | Guided by Product Features |
| Development Model | Life-cycle | Evolutionary |
| Org Structure | Mechanistic/Bureaucratic | Organic/Flexible |
| Technology | No restriction | Favours Object Oriented |
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Blogalot - June 2010
Tags: Agile, Project Management Training Courses, Systems Development
IT, Project Management | admin, June 15, 2010 10:03 am | 
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