Agile project management

1.1 Task 1: Agile Transformation

Background: Companies need to constantly adapt to market developments and remain flexible. It is essential to

recognize changing customer needs and requirements promptly and to respond to them with concrete

entrepreneurial measures to ensure long-term success. Agile approaches aim to implement these newly emerging

customer wishes as quickly as possible. Therefore, agile approaches are centred around the individual, whether

customer or employee, and the interactions between people leading to fundamental changes within the

organization. In this context, agile is more than just a methodology, but also a matter of attitude (agile mindset),

how to react flexibly to changes. Self-organization, responsibility and trust become important in an agile context.

Task: Given a previous sequential approach (waterfall model or similar) and the associated hierarchical

organizational structures, a project team is to be transformed into an agile approach. Consider a project team of

your choice. For example, use a project team in your professional environment, such as a development team or a

department. Such teams can also be located in private contexts, e. g. in associations or NGOs. Consider this agile

transformation of the team as a project.

1. Describe the team's traditional approach, the team constellation, roles and organization to date.

2. Describe the team's desired agile approach, for example based on the Scrum framework. In particular,

address the mindset, values and principles, and roles and responsibilities.

3. Develop an action plan that identifies the measures necessary to transform the team to an agile team,

addressing the differences between traditional hierarchical and agile organizations.

Introductory literature:

Beck, K., Beedle, M., van Bennekum, A., Cockburn, A., Cunningham, W., Fowler, M., & Grenning, J. (2001).

Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

https://agilemanifesto.org/iso/en/manifesto.html

Measey, P. (2015). Agile Foundations - Principles, Practices and Frameworks. BCS The Chartered Institute for IT.

Project Management Institute, Inc. (2017). In Agile Practice Guide. Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI).