Agile Software Project Management Methodologies

Constanţa-Nicoleta Bodea · 2005

Successfully project planning, coordinating and controlling in order to deal effectively with projects sponsors, customers, unexpected risks and changing scope are difficult tasks even for the most experienced project managers. Different surveys indicated that about half of the software projects were considered total failures and only a few of them were successful. The tight deadlines, volatile requirements and emerging technologies are the main reasons for this lake of performance. This agile project environment requires an agile project management. The paper presents the main characteristics of the agile software project management approaches such as: MSF for Agile Software Development, Extreme Programming, Scrum, Crystal, Feature Driven Development, DSDM.

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