Agile Project Management: Essentials from the Project Management Journal

Agile Project Management

Christophe N. Bredillet

The development of the Agile movement, whatever the area of application or discipline, comes from the acknowledgment that traditional approaches are not sufficient to meet higher competitive market conditions and requirements such as a need for faster development and delivery of (new and differentiated) products and services (time dimension) and an increased productivity (cost dimension), while insuring a higher level of quality meeting customers’ expectations, the famous “faster, cheaper, better.”

For instance, the study of literature on agile manufacturing reveals that the birth of agile manufacturing principles is marked by the constitution of the Agility Forum by a group of researchers at the ...