agile management description

1. Tole Alexandra
Master an 1, TI

2.  Agile project management is an iterative and
incremental method of managing the design
and build activities for a desired project.
 The main difference is that agile cuts delivery
time from months to weeks.
 Companies practicing agile are delivering
software products and enhancements in
weeks rather than in months

3.  The diagram from Microsoft MSF shows the
various components of an agile life cycle:

4.  Agile Project Management divides these
overwhelming project management responsibilities
among three Agile roles:
◦ The Product Owner handles setting project goals, handling
the tradeoff of schedule versus scope, adapting to changing
project requirements and setting priorities for product
features.
◦ The Scrum Master guides the team to prioritize their tasks
and remove impediments to handling their tasks.
◦ The Team Members directly handle most of the task
assignment, daily detail management, progress reporting
and quality control for the product.

5.  Unlike waterfall, agile project management
continuously evaluates time and cost as primary
constraints. Rapid feedback, continuous
adaptation and QA best practices are built into
the team’s committed schedules, ensuring top-
quality output and proven processes. Agile
Project Managers look at proactive, real-time
delivery metrics - such as Velocity, Burndown
and Cumulative Flow – versus out-of-date Gantt
Charts and irrelevant or impossible project
milestones. The net result? You have fewer costly
end-of-project surprises, and the working
product is delivered in weeks rather than
months.

6.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_managem
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 http://www.versionone.com/agile-project-
management/