Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations

CHAPTER 2

Literature Review

2.1 Agile Approaches

Agile methodologies are specific approaches to implement flexibility in the project management process, which have been designed in response to the specific challenges of the software industry (i.e., high uncertainty, ill-defined requirements, short development cycle, and no physical deliverable) (Agile Alliance, 2001; Lindvall et al., 2004). For example, Gruver, Young, and Fulghum (2013) describe how Hewlett-Packard went from spending 20% of their project budget on plans to 5%, the argument being that plans needed for business decisions do not require the detail and precision of traditional project plans and that the resources are put to better use developing the product rather than producing ...