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Agile management is the application of the principles of Agile software development and Lean Management to various team and project management processes, particularly product development. Following the appearance of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, organizations discovered the need for agile technique to spread into other areas of activity, including team and project management. [1] This gave way to the creation of practices that built upon the core principles of Agile software development while engaging with more of the organizational structure, such as the Scaled agile framework (SAFe).

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The term Agile originates from Agile manufacturing - which in the early 1990s had developed from flexible manufacturing systems and lean manufacturing/production. [2]

In 2004, one of the authors of the original manifesto, Jim Highsmith, published Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products . [3]

The term "Agile Project Management" has not been picked up by any of the international organizations developing Project Management Standards and as such, Agile management has become common parlance to engage organizations without the formal recognition or institutions to back.

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Agile management is a current leader in popular project and team management methods. However, new practices have emerged attuned to the complexities of advancing technologies and have evolved to cover specialized areas such as Platform engineering and Site reliability engineering. Agile management has been noted to bring about positive responses in unpredictable, complex, and frequently changing environments. In Agile management, creativity is noted as an important factor and is encouraged through experimentation with a focus on practice innovation. In teams and projects that adopt agile management, it is necessary for organizational management components to stimulate team members' creativity, focusing on bringing about continuous innovation for solutions and promoting the project's overall development. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Denning, Steve (13 August 2016). "What Is Agile?" . Forbes. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Sanchez, Luis M.; Nagi, Rakesh (November 2010). "A Review of Agile Manufacturing Systems". ResearchGate. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  3. ↑ Highsmith, Jim (1 January 2004). "Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products". The Agile Software Development Series. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  4. ↑ ISO. "ISO 21502:2020: Project, programme and portfolio management — Guidance on project management". ISO. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  5. ↑ PMI (2022). "PMBOK® Guide". PMBOK® Guide. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  6. ↑ Olszewski, Mieszko (1 January 2023). "Agile project management as a stage for creativity: a conceptual framework of five creativity-conducive spaces". International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. 16 (3): 496–520. doi:10.1108/IJMPB-05-2022-0111. ISSN   1753-8378.
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