Agile Project Management with SCRUM

Abstract

First agile project management (APM) methodologies are created and implemented in the early 1990s, especially for IT projects, mainly cause of the fast-changing project environment. In the manifesto of agile software development, the following key values for APM are defined: " Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan" .

The overall goal is to reduce complexity in the development of projects, to support a quick implementation in an inexpensive and high-quality way according the customer needs. The SCRUM agile project management approach is the dominant methodology used in the practical context and was introduced by Nonaka and Takeuchi in their "new product development Game". In general, SCRUM consists out of different rules, roles, meetings and artefacts which are described in the following article. In addition, a comparison between the traditional "old-school" project management approach and APM is executed and the benefits as well as limitations of the SCRUM methodology are discovered and critical analyzed.