Agile management is the application of the principles of
Agile software development and
Lean Management to various management processes, particularly
product development
In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market, renewing an existing product or introducing a product in a new market. A central aspect of NPD is product design, along w ...
and
project management
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...
. Following the appearance of the
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
In software development, agile (sometimes written Agile) practices include requirements discovery and solutions improvement through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams with their customer(s)/ end user(s), a ...
in 2001, Agile techniques started to spread into other areas of activity.
The term Agile originates from
Agile manufacturing
Agile may refer to:
* Agile, an entity that possesses agility
Project management
* Agile software development, a development method
* Agile construction, iterative and incremental construction method
* Agile learning, the application of increme ...
- which in the early 90s had developed from
Flexible manufacturing systems and
Lean manufacturing/production.
In 2004, one of the authors of the original manifesto,
Jim Highsmith, published
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products.
The term "Agile Project Management" has not been picked up by any of the international organizations developing Project Management Standards.
* The
ISO
ISO is the most common abbreviation for the International Organization for Standardization.
ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance
* Iso (supermarket), a chain of Danish supermarkets incorporated into the SuperBest chain in 2007
* Iso ...
Standard ISO 21502:2020 refers to the term "agile" as a delivery approach of products (
project scope).
* The PMBoK Standard
published by the Project Management Institute refers to an "adaptive" type of development lifecycle also called "agile" or "change-driven" with regard to the
product development
In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market, renewing an existing product or introducing a product in a new market. A central aspect of NPD is product design, along w ...
lifecycle of a project (an element of the project lifecycle).
See also
*
Scrum (software development)
Scrum is a framework for project management with an initial emphasis on software development, although it has been used in other fields including research, sales, marketing and advanced technologies. It is designed for teams of ten or fewer m ...
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Agile software development
Project management