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Agile Project Management Primer 2008 (5MB PDF)
Agile Project Management (also known
as eXtreme or Radical Project Management) is an integrated set of
tools and techniques for managing the new types of projects that
have emerged in all organizations.
These projects are typified by:
- unstable requirements within evolving organizations;
- complex stakeholder inter-relationships;
- innovative business requirements;
- constrained deadlines, budgets and people; and
- tight focus on strategic alignment and added value realization.
Traditional
project management approaches (such as those in Prince 2 and the Project
Management Institute)
have failed to adapt to these projects and, as in other industries
such as manufacturing and construction,
new approaches to business and IT project management are demanded.
While it is fashionable to deride
traditional project management (typified by the PMBOK), these
approaches worked well in the stable and
engineered projects of the past. Simply, creative and dynamic project
management must replace the overengineered
and mechanistic project management of the past as projects (and
organisations) become more
creative, agile and dynamic. Agile Project Management is simply the
management of creativity. [read more - download
PDF (5MB)]