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Agile Project Management

Project management is an important issue that is addressed by companies in their attempt to increase their efficiency. Agile project management provides an efficient approach that more and more companies tend to prefer in comparison with other project management approaches. It is important to focus on the benefits that agile project management provides to companies.

There are numerous articles on agile project management that can be reviewed in order to develop an opinion on this issue. Such an article is represented by "Managing the Work in Agile Project" and was written by Dan Rawsthorne, Senior Consultant. The article addresses work breakdown structure, business value, earned business value, and earned business value index, and their influence on agile project management.

The target public of the article is represented by specialists in the field mostly. These are project managers, analysts, and individuals that must manage agile projects that are familiarized with agile project management, that use or develop tools for it, and that are interested in expanding their knowledge on the issue. But the article can also be useful to people that are not specialized in agile project management, and that want to learn about the process and its implications.

The tone of the article is formal. The language used by the author is professional. The author uses scientific terms regarding agile project management. However, the article is not difficult to understand by individuals that are not specialists in the field.

The purpose of the article seems to refer t increasing the knowledge level on the situation of agile project management tools. This is intended to help the developers of such tools improve the techniques they use in developing agile project management technologies. However, this objective can be reached also with the help of companies that make requests to developers. In other words, developers provide what their customers ask them to. It is likely that they do not improve these programs if they are not required to. Therefore, it is important that customers learn about agile project management technologies, their benefits, and how they can be improved in order to require developers to provide improved software version.

The article identifies several problems that are usually associated with agile project management. The author states that these issues are represented by the dependence on developers, the superficiality of these technologies, and by the fact that feedback to businesses is difficult to understand. Agility is based on validation and feedback. Agile projects are intended to develop software while understanding the dynamics of objectives, requirements, and others.

The author of the article states that the success of agile project management relies on several factors (Rawsthorne, 2004). Some of these factors are represented by discipline, focus, and communication. The article does not address discipline and focus, but addresses management communication. It seems that some of the issues that have been identified regarding the process of agile project management refer to communication of progress to management. Basically, this is the case of project teams.

The importance of the article relies on the fact that the author addresses several issues of great interest to developers, but also to project managers, and companies. In addition to this, the article analyzes situations that project managers encounter in their activity. This is intended to help readers understand the issues addressed by the article, and to apply the information they find in it.

The situation addressed by this article refers to project teams that must develop products. Basically, the author provides information on how the activities required by this project are seen by team members, how they are seen by agile project management developers, and how agile project management can help increase the efficiency of the team. The article provides information on how agile project management software addresses the activities in such projects in comparison with how they are addressed by the project team.

The article also addresses the issue of business value. This is an important issue that managers intend to reach when developing different projects. Therefore, the author provides information on how agile project management software can be used in order to calculate the business value of the project (Gale, 2012). This is an important issue for managers and their companies. This is because in order to determine the investments level in these projects, it is important to establish the business value that the projects in case can provide.