VIDEO: Agile Project Management, Explained

if you've had any exposure to project management especially in software development then i'm willing to bet that you've heard the term agile agile may seem like a murky term but by the end of this video everything will be clear hey there project managers i'm meredith and in this video we're talking all about agile project management but if you want to dive deeper be sure to check out our website at project management.com for in-depth articles helpful tips and info about project management software click the link in the description below to learn more now if you watched our video introducing project management you might remember that we briefly touched on agile project management but if you haven't seen our project management video first of all go ahead and go watch that and we'll be right here waiting for you but otherwise it might be helpful for us to do a quick recap before we talk about agile let's start by talking about project management here's a definition for you project management is the practice of planning allocating and adjusting disposable resources to efficiently and sustainably achieve project goals there are multiple ways to do this and many project management methods today come from a style or philosophy of project management called agile now agile is based on the agile manifesto a set of 12 principles written in 2001 by 17 authors i'm not going to go through every single principle but in general agile emphasizes collaboration transparency and adaptability over silos and rigid linear plans so instead of working for a long time to get a product as perfect as you can before it goes to customers agile methods attempt to continuously deliver value to customers by delivering a product in a much shorter amount of time collecting the feedback making those improvements and then delivering a new version of the product now that's the gist of agile but the best way to explain it is by using an example so let's say that you're making a social media app if you're using an agile method you won't start out by thinking of every single possible feature or functionality that you can squeeze into your brilliant app instead you'll start with the basics since you're making a social media app you'll probably want to give users the ability to make posts follow other users engage with the other users posts and of course get notified when somebody engages with your post you call this software version 1.0 and you publish it to the app store and google play store now your new app is a hit but as reviews start coming in you notice a few include suggestions for how your app could be better there's some pretty good ideas in these so you start to take your notes and you get to work adding the most requested features when the next month rolls around you publish a whole new version of your app software version 2.0 and the whole process starts again now before you know it you're releasing version 150.0 and your app can do all kinds of cool things that you never thought possible and people love it so that's a simplified version of agile project management but there are multiple different methods that you can use to follow agile principles the most popular these methods might be scrum but other methodologies include extreme programming feature driven development crystal and kanban or lean methodology choosing the method that works best for you will depend on the type of project that you're working on the complexity of the project your available resources and of course the time you have among other factors no matter the method that you choose you stand to see much greater success from your agile project management efforts by using the right tools now this is where agile software can be really useful there are many different systems out there but we recommend checking out jira software asana target process activecollab and zoho projects we have a whole other video dedicated to this topic so be sure to check that out by clicking the card in the top right corner now that you know the basics of agile project management visit our website at project management.com to learn more about project management tips software recommendations and certification programs click the link in the description below to keep learning be sure to subscribe turn on those notifications for more project management software videos and i will see you next time bye

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