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Agile Project Management
Objectives
- Recognise the conditions in which traditional project management versus agile project management should be used.
- Identify core agile principles.
- Understand the basic methodology used in scrum.
- Recognisethe limitations of agile project management.
Discussion Questions
Question 7.1
Why is the traditional project management approach less effective when project scope and technology are not well known?
Question 7.2
What are the benefits and limitations of agile project management?
Question 7.3
What is iterative incremental development? Why is it useful for developing new products?
Question 7.4
What similarities and differences exist between a traditional project manager and a scrum master?
Question 7.5
Refer to the case study Dog Shelter App. After attending a seminar on agile scrum, you have decided to use scrum techniques rather the traditional waterfall approach to complete the project.
Answer the following questions:
- Who is the scrum master, product owner and the scrum team members? What are the responsibilities of these roles?
- You decide to hold a release planning meeting? What will be the purpose of that meeting? What outcomes can you expect?
- Create a product backlog for the project (assuming you are the product owner). Use the template provided in Table 1. The first one has been completed for you.
Question 7.6 - Case Study
Read the case study Project A. What do you do? What impact do your decisions have on Highsmith's (2010) agile triangle?