The document compares agile and traditional project management methodologies, highlighting that agile is more flexible, adaptive, and collaborative, allowing for customer involvement and rapid feedback. Traditional project management is characterized by a rigid, top-down approach with heavy documentation and planning. Agile promotes self-organization, iterative processes, and a focus on delivering customer value, while traditional methods prioritize extensive upfront analysis and a structured development process.

1. Agile vs. Traditional Project Management
Agile Project Management
Traditional Project Management
Created by: Saqib Javed John (PMP, ACP, ITIL, SCJP, SCWCD)

2. Difference between Agile and Traditional
Project Management
Cookbook
Innovation
Waterfall
Agile
Structured
Adaptability

3. Traditional Framework
Agile Framework
More Rigid and Directions coming Top Team may conduct dozens of
to Down
experiments to see which works best
More Commanding and Controlling
style of Leadership
Communication flowing freely
between all the team members
Spoon Feeding; Management tell
everyone “What to Do”
Self-Organizing; work is distributed
with consensus by the Team itself
Planning Centric and Plan Driven
Plan could be very fluid in Agile world
as Agile projects are more fluid then
waterfall projects
Document Oriented and Document
Driven
Cross functional, Self-Contained
and Agile is ultimately pragmatic
Resistant to Change
Agile Projects are welcoming to
change; true even changes are
introduced late in the project

4. Traditional Framework
Agile Framework
Customer get involved early in the
Customer involvement is the key here
processes but tended to keep at arm’s as more closely involved at the time of
length once the project begins
work being performed
Escalation to managers when problem When problems occur, team works
arise
together resolve them internally
Heavy upfront analysis and design
Daily stand-up meetings are held to
discuss work done yesterday, plan of
today and impediments if any
More serious about processes than
the product
Agile methods less focus on formal
and directive processes
Product is planned extensively and
then executed and tested
Work is delivered to client in small and
frequent releases to get rapid
feedback loops
Traditional models favors
“Anticipation”
Agile model favors “Adaption”

5. Traditional Framework
Agile Framework
Team Commits so early in the project
before they can put their hands on
Daily Stand-Up meetings are held to
discuss work done yesterday, plan of
today and impediments if any
Heavy documentation before
executing the work packages
Agile Projects are highly democratic
and implement a series of short and
repeatable practices
Slow and structured development
process usually focus on one time
release
Agile is built on the concept of
frequent and small releases known as
“Incremental Delivery” in small chunks
More focus on How than Why
Agile more focus on Why and
retrospective is held at the end of
each Iteration or Release
Ownership belongs only to the Project
Manager
Shared ownership

6. What Agile is Not or hasn’t
o Traditional
o Pizza box methodology
o Predictive
o Black and White proposition
o Unplanned
o Just a development
o Undisciplined
methodology
o Inefficient
o Departmentalized
o Wild
o Perspective by design
o Adhoc
o Analysis up front
o Chaotic
o Design up front
o Procedure based

7. What Agile is or has
o Mindset, Philosophy, Culture,
o Efficient and Effective
Lifestyle, Approach and
o Business Focused
Thinking
o Delivery Focused
o Unique Project Management
o Iterative & Incremental
Framework
o Visionary, Evolutionary and
o Customer Value Focused
o Faster
o Better
o Reliable
Adaptive
o Where everybody understand
the vision
o Cooler
o Collaborative

8. What Agile is or has
o Innovation
o Self-Managing
o More Visible and
Transparent
o Self-Organizing
o Improved Time-to-Market
o Self-Contained
o Less emphasis on designing
o Self-Commitment
and documentation
o More Feedback Oriented
o Decreased Risk
o More Satisfaction
o Business-Driven
o More Customer Involvement
o Mission-Drive
o Less confusion
o Feature-Driven

9. What Agile is or has
o Consensus-Driven
o Pragmatic
o Test-Driven
o Continuous user involvement
o Quality-Driven
o Rapid Feedback Loops
o Value-Driven
o Short feedback loops
o Four Eye Technique
o Planning based on High-
o Build-In Quality
o Combined ownership
o Shared ownership
o Freedom to move
level business view point

10. What Agile is or has
o Just Enough Project
Management
o Has focus of project
Requirements only (Build
only what asked for)
o Project Specific (don’t build
more than the Bare-Minimum
or Bare Sufficient )
o Light weight
o Time boxed
o Responsive to Business
o Become main-stream
o Is an approach which can be
applied on Waterfall

11. Thanks….
Created by:
Saqib Javed John
MSc CS, PMP, ACP, ITIL v3F, SCJP, SCWCD
Email: saqib.jav@gmail.com
Skype: saqibjohn76
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