IT Agile Paper
Importance of Agile Project Management to IT Projects
Student
College
03/27/2017
| Need to prepare a research paper discussing, in depth, a subject related to one of the topics covered in the course. The paper should be from 2,000 to 3,000 words in length (8-12 pages) and contain a separate title or cover page and separate pages for the list of reference sources. The paper is expected to be authoritative, and based on at least 10 high-quality sources (i.e., no Wikipedia, newspaper, or web page citations allowed). Use the library resources to find relevant journal or respected trade publication articles for your report. The majority of reference sources should be from recent publications no older than five years. Follow the APA format (6th ed.) for the paper and for all citations, figures, tables, and the list of references. You may include in your paper any of the articles assigned as readings, as well as any other reference sources encountered during the course. The style and content appropriate for an academic literature review can be seen in most scholarly journals found in peer-reviewed literature. Most articles will contain a section called, Literature Review. Look over a few to get a feel for the general style of writing expected. The report should exhibit graduate-level writing, in terms of grammar, punctuation, format, quality of analysis, coherence, insight, logical flow, and reasoning. The paper is NOT an essay, how to, or opinion piece, it is to be a research report based fully on facts and data derived from appropriate sources in the literature. Provide a reference citation for EVERY statement of fact you include in your paper. Do NOT string together direct quotes from reference sources to create a narrative in the report. More than three quotes within the paper will be too many. Write in your own words and include quote marks for ALL material copied from other sources. |
| Literature Review Individual Paper Criteria: Write a review of the literature that describes the findings of other researchers related to a specific topic in the Project Management field (Agile project management). The objective of the research paper is to enable you to conduct independent academic research in an area directly related to the course subject matter. Your efforts will generate a high-quality written report summarizing the results of your research into the current scholarly and relevant trade literature related to your chosen topic.
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Importance of Agile Project Management to IT Projects
Abstract
Agile project management continues to gain popularity in modern software developments and similar projects. As the agile project management becomes increasingly part of every project, need for detailed research on this type of project management arises. The contribution of agile project management has several topics that demand deeper research through evaluation of several resources and collection and analysis of data. One of the major topics is ‘Agile Project Management and its importance to IT Projects’ which relates to the process of software project management. It also relates to methods that make use of agile frameworks like scrum and Extreme Programming or XP (Cobb, 2011).
Software development projects in the modern days involve a very dynamic environment that has complex variables. The project managers of the project usually face challenging times when requirements keeps on changing, increase or decrease of demand, budget changes and fast change of system functionalities. The projects usually end up depleting the budget faster than expected while resources become less. In such situation, agile project management give project managers and agile coaches a better alternative to meet the needs of such dynamic environment (Cobb, 2011). Research conducted in the past few years have shown that agile project management has helped use the little resources to increase performance of software projects.
This research paper provides a detailed research on the effective ways of adopting agile project management, the importance of agile project management to project managers and the ways the approach can increase the performance of Information Technology projects. In addition, the paper provides analysis of data collected for agile project management in various projects for small and large business projects.
References
Cobb, C. G. (2011). Making sense of agile project management: Balancing control and agility. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
