Agile Project Management with SCRUM
Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle. Scrum is one of the agile methodologies designed to guide teams in the iterative and incremental delivery of a product. Often referred to as “an agile project management framework,” its focus is on the use of an empirical process that allows teams to respond rapidly, efficiently, and effectively to change.
Traditional project management |
Agile Project Management -SCRUM |
Fix requirements to control time and cost |
Fixes Time and Cost to control requirements |
Business knows the product and require the project management to execute base on requirement. |
Frequent feedback collaboration with business to create the product. |
Design is defined during project initiation or early in project to translate into project requirements -Design Freeze |
Design start with a broad vision and constant development toward the end product.
Constant Development/Continuous Integration
CD/CI |

Stacey Diagram- when to use Agile Project Management

Life Cycle |
Requirements |
Activities |
Delivery |
Goal |
Predictive |
Fixed |
Performed once for entire project |
Single Delivery |
Manage Cost |
Iterative |
Dynamic |
Repeated until correct |
Single Delivery |
Correctness of solution |
Incremental |
Dynamic |
Performed once for given increment |
Frequent smaller deliveries |
Speed |
Agile |
Dynamic |
Repeat until correct |
Frequent small deliveries |
Customer value via frequent deliveries and feedback. |
Stacey Diagram- when to use Agile Project Management

Project Manager can adopt a servant leadership role in an agile project and take up the role of a Coach, promoting
- Purpose : Work with team to define “WHY?”
- People : Team to work together to contribute across the project work.
- Process: Results oriented process. Team focus process.
Agile Roles in local Singapore terms
Cross-Functional Team Members (“Kay Poh” King)
Product Owner (“Sai Kang” Warrior) -Customer Facing
Team Facilitator (“One Leg Kick”)
Sample Agile Management Digital Cloud base Kanban board -Trello
Currently there are a number of collaboration software like Trello, Monday.com which can be used for the digital Kanban board which can sync with your application on your laptop, PC and mobile phone application and save you time in transferring information as it is Cloud based.

Team Performance
- Agile measures the actual delivery from the team
- Working product
- Smaller deliverables
Agile Manifesto Values
Working software over comprehensive documentation.
Principles:
Working software is the primary measure of progress.

No |
Manifestos Value |
Agile Practices |
1 |
Individuals and interactions over process and tools. |
Servant Leadership
Team composition
Regular Stand Up |
2 |
Working software over comprehensive documentation |
Backlogs
Demo/ review |
3 |
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. |
Measurements in agile projects
Procurement and contracts
Organization standards
Team composition. |
4 |
Responding to change over following a plan. |
Retrospective
Backlog refinement
Demo/review. |
SCRUM- Agile Project Management Methodology


Scrum –Development Team (Squad)
- 3 to 9 members max
- Self-organizing
- Contribute to the project daily
- Cross functional
- Can change only between sprints
- Creates the definitions of “DONE”
- All are called “Developers”
SCRUM meeting
Attendees
- Management Stakeholders
- Project Manager
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- Development Team
Duration
Objective
- Answer 3 questions on lesson learned. DONE>DOING>TO DO
- “Parking Lot”