A Guide to Agile Project Management Implementation

January 31, 2021Publications

Adopting a new framework for development that changes the way a company works is a strategic, long-term process rather than a quick fix.

What is Agile?

Agile is a people-centred and result-oriented methodology adopted from the rapidly changing world of software development. When implemented correctly, Agile focuses on self-organising, adaptive planning, fast and continuous improvement in quality, and short delivery times. It’s fast and flexible and uses tools like Scrum and Kanban, Scrumban or JIRA.

How it works and why we recommended Agile to our client?

In 2011, Jeff Sutherland together with a group of software engineers created the Agile Manifesto, a set of rules and principles that started the Agile movement. In the manifesto, face-to-face communication is one of the central parts of the Agile philosophy. Feedback is central in Agile because it is how companies move forward in the development process in the right way, that is, according to clients needs. Moreover, through cooperation, trust, and open communication, teams organise themselves in a way that allows them to decide how to prioritize and how to continually adjust the process to keep it simple.

Our team of consultants and the representatives of the client company had to admit that the “waterfall” method consisting of a “plan-build-test and deliver” sequence no longer matched the existing configuration of the company and its ambi