Agile management is the application of the principles of
Agile software development
Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to software development, developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by ''The Agile Alliance'', a group of 17 software practitioners, in 2001. As documented ...
and
Lean Management to various team and project management processes, particularly
product development
New product development (NPD) or product development in business and engineering covers the complete process of launching a new product to the market. Product development also includes the renewal of an existing product and introducing a product ...
. Following the appearance of ''
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development'' in 2001, organizations discovered the need for agile technique to spread into other areas of activity, including team and project management.
This gave way to the creation of practices that built upon the core principles of Agile software development while engaging with more of the organizational structure, such as the
Scaled agile framework (SAFe).
The term Agile originates from
Agile manufacturing - which in the early 1990s had developed from
flexible manufacturing systems and
lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a methods of production, method of manufacturing goods aimed primarily at reducing times within the Operations management#Production systems, production system as well as response times from suppliers and customers. It is ...
/production.
In 2004, one of the authors of the original manifesto,
Jim Highsmith, published ''
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products''.
The term "Agile Project Management" has not been picked up by any of the international organizations developing Project Management Standards and as such, Agile management has become common parlance to engage organizations without the formal recognition or institutions to back.
* The
ISO
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
Me ...
Standard ISO 21502:2020 refers to the term "agile" as a delivery approach of products (
project scope).
* The PMBoK Standard published by the Project Management Institute refers to an "adaptive" type of development lifecycle also called "agile" or "change-driven" about the
product development
New product development (NPD) or product development in business and engineering covers the complete process of launching a new product to the market. Product development also includes the renewal of an existing product and introducing a product ...
lifecycle of a project (an element of the project lifecycle).
Use
Agile management is a current leader in popular project and team management methods. However, new practices have emerged attuned to the complexities of advancing technologies and have evolved to cover specialized areas such as
Platform engineering and
Site reliability engineering. Agile management has been noted to bring about positive responses in unpredictable, complex, and frequently changing environments. In Agile management, creativity is noted as an important factor and is encouraged through experimentation with a focus on practice innovation. In teams and projects that adopt agile management, it is necessary for organizational management components to stimulate team members' creativity, focusing on bringing about continuous innovation for solutions and promoting the project's overall development.
See also
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Scrum (software development)
Scrum is an Agile management, agile team collaboration framework commonly used in software development and other industries.
Scrum prescribes for teams to break work into goals to be completed within Timeboxing, time-boxed iterations, call ...
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Scaled agile framework
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Agile learning
References
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Agile software development
Project management