8. Agile Project Management 2024/2025
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Key characteristics of Agile project management - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cross
functional teams that work on short iterations
Incremental approach to develop
Focuses on business priorities and customer value
Strives for continuous improvement
CFT members have more power to make decisions, and they are involved from
start to end
Continuous improvement - customer provides feedback, features added or
updated. Useful where requirements change often.
Product features with highest priority with customers are developed first.
Progress is measured in terms of each features readiness for review and
deployment to customers
Meeting milestones on schedule becomes priority
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,Short iterations (repeatable cycle in a process). Iterations are 2-4 weeks before
delivery of entire set. Customers provide feedback after each iteration
Agile doesn't focus on baselines - instead it is based on adjustings plan as a
project progresses, with mods made after each iteration.
IN agile approach, project team iterates and customers are reviewed, changes in
requirements are incorporated into subsequent iterations
Benefits of Agile PM approach - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- reduce risk
1. Risk of developing the wrong thing
2. The risk of building a product of poor quality
3. The risk of not meeting budget/schedule requirments
-speed up delivery due to faster decision making
- generate more value (because of focus on customer)
- reduce cost of making changes
Agile Principles: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Satisfy the customer
2. Welcome change
3. Deliver software frequently
4. Work together
5. Motivate individuals
6. Use face-to-face communication
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,7. Working software = progress
8. Constant pace
9. Technical excellence
10. Simplicity
11. Self organizing teams
12. Reflection
What are primary values in Agile methodology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔individuals and
interactions
Working software
Customer collaboration
Responding to change
What are secondary values in Agile methodology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Process and
tools
Comprehensive documentation
contract negotiation
Following a plan
Development models are a guide to the development process. 2 types -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Defined and linear
Planned in detail before performed
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, Also called a "waterfall development" model
2. Empirical and iterative
Frequent evaluation and adaptation
Customers can't or don't want to set their requirements too far in the future
Waterfall model phases: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Requirements
Design
Development
Testing
Deployment
Weakness of the waterfall model - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Customers feedback too late,
errors are id'd late, and are costly to fix late in the process
Agile approach rejects the triangle of scope, cost, schedule because it focuses on
customer value
What is the Agile iron triangle? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The "agile iron triangle" is
reversed with the schedule becoming the primary driver; doesn't show value
The "agile triangle" looks at value, quality and constraints as the three
components.
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Update | A+ Rated
Key characteristics of Agile project management - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cross
functional teams that work on short iterations
Incremental approach to develop
Focuses on business priorities and customer value
Strives for continuous improvement
CFT members have more power to make decisions, and they are involved from
start to end
Continuous improvement - customer provides feedback, features added or
updated. Useful where requirements change often.
Product features with highest priority with customers are developed first.
Progress is measured in terms of each features readiness for review and
deployment to customers
Meeting milestones on schedule becomes priority
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,Short iterations (repeatable cycle in a process). Iterations are 2-4 weeks before
delivery of entire set. Customers provide feedback after each iteration
Agile doesn't focus on baselines - instead it is based on adjustings plan as a
project progresses, with mods made after each iteration.
IN agile approach, project team iterates and customers are reviewed, changes in
requirements are incorporated into subsequent iterations
Benefits of Agile PM approach - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- reduce risk
1. Risk of developing the wrong thing
2. The risk of building a product of poor quality
3. The risk of not meeting budget/schedule requirments
-speed up delivery due to faster decision making
- generate more value (because of focus on customer)
- reduce cost of making changes
Agile Principles: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Satisfy the customer
2. Welcome change
3. Deliver software frequently
4. Work together
5. Motivate individuals
6. Use face-to-face communication
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,7. Working software = progress
8. Constant pace
9. Technical excellence
10. Simplicity
11. Self organizing teams
12. Reflection
What are primary values in Agile methodology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔individuals and
interactions
Working software
Customer collaboration
Responding to change
What are secondary values in Agile methodology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Process and
tools
Comprehensive documentation
contract negotiation
Following a plan
Development models are a guide to the development process. 2 types -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Defined and linear
Planned in detail before performed
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, Also called a "waterfall development" model
2. Empirical and iterative
Frequent evaluation and adaptation
Customers can't or don't want to set their requirements too far in the future
Waterfall model phases: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Requirements
Design
Development
Testing
Deployment
Weakness of the waterfall model - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Customers feedback too late,
errors are id'd late, and are costly to fix late in the process
Agile approach rejects the triangle of scope, cost, schedule because it focuses on
customer value
What is the Agile iron triangle? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The "agile iron triangle" is
reversed with the schedule becoming the primary driver; doesn't show value
The "agile triangle" looks at value, quality and constraints as the three
components.
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