Ezara PenningSystems Administrator I| Lincoln Land Community CollegeSpringfield, Il, United States
Agile is a project management methodology that uses short development cycles called "sprints" to focus on continuous improvement when developing a product or service.
The Project Management Institute (PMI) states "Agile approaches to project management aim for early, measurable ROI through defined, iterative delivery of product increments. They feature continuous involvement of the customer throughout the product development cycle. Although agile has its roots in software and IT, agile adoption is growing and expanding in a wide range of industries." https://www.pmi.org/learning/featured-topics/agile
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2 replies by Basi Reddy Venkata Reddy and Sergio Luis Conte
Dec 13, 2017 9:37 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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Agile is not a methodology. Agile is totally independent of a methodology. Agile is not an approach. You have approaches based on Agile. What the PMI is trying to say is that when you use some approach based on Agile then you have to take into account incremental delivery. In fact, you can read it into the new PMBOK where the PMI took an "elegant" and salomonic decision in defining the life cycle including a embeded phase named "development" and a new life cycle model named "agile" based on iterative-incremental life cycle process.
Dec 14, 2017 9:33 AM
Basi Reddy Venkata Reddy
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I would like to add "retrospective meetings" which takes place after completing each Sprint. This allows the lessons learned implemented in the upcoming Sprints. This allows better quality on forthcoming sprints. This is one good advantage in Agile.
AGILE methodology is a practice that promotes continuous iteration of development and testing throughout the software development lifecycle of the project. Both development and testing activities are concurrent.
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1 reply by Sergio Luis Conte
Dec 13, 2017 9:39 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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Agile based methods promote what you stated. Those methods becomes today solution delivery methods so you can use it for any type of product.
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Anish AbrahamPrivacy Program Manager| University of WashingtonAuburn, Wa, United States
Agile project management is an iterative approach that focuses on incremental releases and incorporating customer feedback with every iteration.Scrum is one of the agile methodologies used in the iterative and incremental delivery of a product. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
Sergio, where are you :)
Agile is NOT a methodology - sorry Shadav & Anish
Anish - all PM methodologies and approaches must consider customer feedback Saving Changes...
I have to recognize that I opened this question looking for them too. :)
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Anonymous
Dec 13, 2017 4:18 AM
Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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I was waiting for Mounir or Sergio to go crazy.
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No need to go crazy - just offer to correct statements. Agile as a general topic is for Sergio --- Agile on capital projects - you can bet I will jump in with all my weight :) and I am not light LOL Saving Changes...
Agile is a framework of values and principles which can be applied to project or non-project work. It encourages efficiency, customer-focus, team empowerment, quality and value delivery.
Agile methodologies such as Scrum codify these values and principles into roles, practices, tools & techniques. These methodologies are usually aimed at specific types of projects.
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Agile is an umbrella for a set of frameworks and practices for delivering 'something'; Scrum, Kanban, etc.. Focus is on delivery [value] and feedback. Saving Changes...
Amir, as Kiron pointed, agility in a project is mainly a mindset and principles to get work done in a project very much triggered by different principles coming from lean manufacturing. A framework for this can be Scrum with defined roles and rules. Scrum very much focuses on the tactical operational level of a project and needs to be synchronized with the strategic level. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
JAJAJAJJA, Thank you very much my friends. Here I am. First of all, I always comment about Agile because I firmly believe that the general confusion outside there jeopardizes the work for all of us and mainly the intentions of people that are trying to find a job. All I will write as follows can be checked and my only objective is that: search for the basement and the real information. Here I comes. By definition, the definition created in 1990 inside the USA DoD NSF/Agility Forum and then taking by creators of methods for software development based on Agile (I worked with some of them like Arie Van Bennekum) Agile is "a way of behave and thinking with focus on client and quality". When you use behave Agile then you gain into agility which is "the ability to respond to changes and to create changes". That is the reason because Agile is not the same of Lean, while Agile was born trying as an innovation on Lean.
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2 replies by Ezara Penning and Rami Kaibni
Dec 13, 2017 10:36 AM
Ezara Penning
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Sergio, thank you for the correction, it is greatly appreciated. My apologies for posting incorrect information.
My Agile course focused on it being a "methodology" rather than a behavior or way of thinking. What I learned in the course made Agile seem rather cumbersome and not agile at all. Thank you for providing me with this information, I am now beginning to understand what Agile really is. :-)
