Benefits Of Agile Project Management

Because priorities, finances and resources may change at any time, it is critical that this process be well-defined and easy to follow. It is also important that its value is understood and supported by corporate leaders and the business organization.

Knowledge: The more projects a business undertakes, the more knowledge it will acquire over time. This will serve as an asset to any business and project management helps to capture and retain knowledge.Creates an opportunity for learning: Sometimes, projects work out perfectly and other times, project fail miserably. Either way, much can be learned from previous experience and past mistakes can be avoided in the future. Project management ensures that these lessons are learned and applied in the future.

Use Criteria, This process is intended for proposed projects that… Are of significant size and will require a significant amount of time to complete. Must be tightly coordinated with other active projects. Will use new or emerging technology. Will require a new work process. Are intended for a new customer or unproven market. Will impact numerous departments or organizations. Are highly critical to the success of the business. Are a known high risk. This process is not intended for operational requests (Type 3) that may be handled directly by the IT Help Desk or small initiatives (Type 2) that are routed to IT Managers for immediate scheduling and execution.

The key feature of this activity is recognizing that identifying candidate projects is something that an organization should do on a regular basis, not just once each year. Further, when examining projects for approval, it is vital to also examine the resource capacities and capabilities available for assignment. It is futile to assign a major new project requiring extensive discovery of business requirements if no business analysts are available. Project Identification proceeds Project Initiation.