Agile Project Management Techniques

INTRODUCTION The world is constantly changing, the world of the project as well. A few years ago a traditional project management was a great thinking of how to manage the projects, meanwhile, the technology advancement contributes an important vector of change of projects methodologies. To be competitive, big and the old organisations ought to re-think their ways of approaching the project. The small and youth organisations did their insertion with "innovation" approaches; this facilitates many innovation organisations to become more aggressive in the business environment. Shawn Dickerson (March & April, 2015) highlighted the limits of traditional project management in our actual environment. The use of the traditional project management

According to Version One, 2012 recorded three (3) most used techniques: Daily Standup, Iteration Planning and Unit Testing with two growing techniques Kanban and Retrospectives. Meanwhile, the recent report illustrated the top five (5) used techniques in different organisations: Iteration Planning, Daily Standup, Iteration reviews and Short Iterations. The major tools employed in 2012 were Taskboards, Kanban boards, Agile Project Management Tools and Release Management. While the recent survey focused on those top five (5) tools: Taskboard, Bug Tracker, Kanban board, Spreadsheet and Agile project management tool. Agile is a dynamic innovation approach not yet all exploited - Viewed its aggressive penetration in the market today, people seem to confuse Agile as a project management methodology. Henjewele (2018) released certain limitations of Agile to be adopted as a project management methodology. Issues that limit its adoption include:

• It does not satisfy top management’s need for budget, scope and schedule certainty and control.

• Its principles of self-organisation and close collaboration can be incompatible with corporate

The traditional project management was developed for most engineering projects where the delivery is well known by the customer. Agile project management brings another view of managing the projects especially IT projects. No need to specify every detail of a product up-front, because there are plenty of assumptions and uncertainty. Anyhow, most innovation methodologies can add great value and it is really up to the team to decide where to start and when to apply which methods and techniques. The majority of the team must agree to the methods to be used instead of falling in love with one specific solution. The qualitative and quantitative customer feedback collected will state as a gear of the team to know what to continue improving. Innovation initiatives can range from exploring an abstract problem space, to experiment with a number of solutions, before continuously improving a very concrete solution in a specific market