Risks characteristic to Agile project management methodologies and responses to them

• Authors: Dorota KUCHTA
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Agile methods for project management are often treated as methods for mitigating risk. However, there is disagreement as to whether explicit methods of risk management should be used in projects which are executed according to Agile methodology or is the implicit risk management built into Agile methodologies sufficient. To contribute to the discussion, an attempt has been made to identify risks that are either caused by the introduction of an Agile methodology to a project or become more significant when such methodology is in use. If such risks exist, this would be evidence that explicit risk management is required, even in the case of Agile methodologies. The results of this research may be useful for any organization that is in the process of selecting a methodology for project management and is considering Agile methodologies.

Keywords

EN

risk; risk management; Agile software development; Agile project management

• Publisher: Politechnika Wrocławska. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
• Journal: Operations Research and Decisions
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 75-95

Contributors

author

Dorota KUCHTA

• Institute of Organization and Management, Wrocław University of Technology, ul. Smoluchowskiego 25, 50-372 Wrocław, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5277/ord130406