Agile project management: a potential tool for enhancing innovation capacity in organisations

• Autor(a) principal: Lamps, Manon Marie Philippine
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19505
• topic: Innovation; Innovation management; Agile project management management; Agile methodologies; Inovação; Gestão da inovação; Gerenciamento agile de projetos; Methodologias Agile

To develop their projects, organisations have different methodologies to use. Thus, they often use the same methods they already know and are used to. Often organisations would favourite common project management methodologies like Waterfall methodology. It has already proven its worth, but has also its flaws and limits. Since the beginning of the century new methodologies have been developed: the agile methodologies. Those methodologies are quite new and not very much known or used except by organisations from IT sectors. This thesis aims to analyse if and how the agile methodologies used during project managements encourage the innovation of an organisation. This thesis will highlight the advantages and limits of both waterfall and agile methodologies, before emphasising innovation enablers. Through qualitative interviews, this research will establish and compare the characteristics of an innovative team and the characteristics of an agile team. Then, it will establish the interests and issues to use agile methodologies to innovate.