Could taking an Agile approach to project management be the future?

Ongoing technological evolutions have made the working world complex and unpredictable, meaning many traditional project management approaches may now be too rigid for some of the challenges facing organisations.

As the pace of change across the business world continues to accelerate, Agile is proving itself as an effective approach for successfully navigating these challenges and offering a solution for the future. Embracing flexibility, collaboration, and iterative development, Agile allows professionals and organisations to meet increasingly complex customer demands and tight timelines to provide high quality products.

What is Agile project management?

Agile project management is a flexible and iterative approach to managing projects. It emphasises collaboration, customer-centricity and adaptability, focusing on delivering value incrementally through small, frequent iterations and fostering continuous feedback and improvement.

How does Agile differ from waterfall project management?

Waterfall project management

The waterfall method is a traditional approach to project management that follows a linear sequence of actions, where the completion of one project stage marks the start of the next. Timelines, budgets, and objectives are set out from the beginning, as a result customer interaction is limited aside from pre-agreed check-ins and deliverable points.

Agile project management

Agile approaches are more fluid i