Agile Practices and Impacts on Project Success

Scheduling Practices and Project Success

odern project scheduling techniques have been around for almost 50 years. The original development work on the critical path method (CPM) and the performance evaluation and review technique (PERT) began in the mid 1950s [6]&[7]. Although the basic principles behind CPM and PERT have not changed, significant advances in project scheduling have taken place in the years since these techniques were...

Does Agile work? — A quantitative analysis of agile project success

The Agile project management methodology has been widely used in recent years as a means to counter the dangers of traditional, front-end planning methods that often lead to downstream development pathologies. Although numerous authors have pointed to the advantages of Agile, with its emphasis on individuals and interactions over processes, customer collaboration over contracts and formal negot...

Project Success in Agile Development Projects

The paper explains and clarifies the differences between Waterfall and Agile development methodologies, establishes what criteria could be taken into account to properly define project success within the scope of software development projects, and finally tries to clarify if project success is the reason why many organizations are moving to Agile methodologies from other ones such as Waterfall....

Agile values and principles - An asset towards project success!

Using Agile Practices to Influence Motivation within IT Project Teams

This exploratory study of IT project teams in Sweden and Ireland investigates how three agile practices, namely daily stand-ups, iteration planning and iteration retrospectives, contribute to motivation or demotivation in an agile team. Several studies recognise that motivating staff is critically important for a project manager and have identified factors that motivate IT project staff in part...