An Agile Software Project Management Manifesto - A Reference Disciplines Framework for Agile Development
Roy Morien · 2014
The Agile Development approach to systems development is fundamentally based on the Agile Manifesto published in 2001 by a group of independent consultants and practitioners. Twelve Principles supporting the Agile Manifesto were elaborated in support. Following the spirit of the Agile Manifesto, this paper proffers the Agile Project Management Manifesto. In part, this Agile Project Management Manifesto looks towards identifying and proposing appropriate reference disciplines which are manifest in the Agile Development Universe of Discourse. The paper will attempt to bring together concepts and practices of ‘agile development’, ‘lean product development’, ‘chaordic systems’, ‘leadership studies’ and concepts of the ‘learning organisation, together with ‘the Model of Concurrent Perception’ to suggest a new Paradigm of Software Development and Project Management. This new paradigm is framed by the Agile Project Management Manifesto described. The Manifesto evokes some reference disciplines to support its various aspects. Why is it desirable and necessary to search for such reference disciplines. The answer is that Alternative Software Development and Project Management approaches, such as Software Prototyping and Rapid Development. and now including Agile Development, all seemed based on pragmatic experience and have been designed mostly by consultants and practitioners. While this is not in any way to denigrate or deprecate them, it is felt that support for these approaches needs to also come from other disciplines, such as management studies, leadership studies and the like to give Agile Development a more solid theoretical and intellectual basis.