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Agile Project Management - The Basics: AgilePM - Philosophy

About the lesson

This lesson emphasises that the successful implementation of Agile Project Management is dependent on the stakeholders understanding of the underlying
Philosophy of the approach.

Additional Reading: Agile Project Management Handbook Chapter 3

Narrative / Transcript
The Agile Project Management philosophy is that any project must be aligned to clearly defined strategic goals and focus on early delivery of real benefits to th
business.

It is vital that stakeholders buy in to the philosophy. The key stakeholders including the Business and Technical representatives need to have a good
understanding of the business objectives for the project.

The Solution Development Team need to be empowered to take decisions about the development. There needs to be a great deal of collaboration between all
stakeholders to ensure the solution meets the business needs.

The Business needs to understand that they will get a working solution on the agreed date but that it won’t always be 100% of the solution.

When first using an Agile Project Management approach, the stakeholders will have concerns, they will say “so you can’t always say at the outset exactly what
will get in the end?”.

Their concerns are allayed by explaining that they will be defining what is important to meet the business needs and that the majority of the discussion is aroun
the finer detail of the deliverables and not the major requirements.

Change is inevitable as more is understood about the solution being developed.

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