Agile vs Waterfall

• Autor(a) principal: Pestana, Marcos André Andrade
• 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/10400.13/2604
• topic: Agile; Waterfall; Project management; Gestão de projeto; Informatics Engineering; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

In project management the structured process - Waterfall - has often led to ineffective project developments. The introduction and the use of new and more agile approaches – agile methodologies - has become an increasingly appropriate answer for organizations to have more effective projects in what concerns time, budget and scope. Over the years, these agile methodologies have been acquiring their position in the market. On one hand, Waterfall method is a structured process in Project Management, on the other hand agile methodologies are based on processes, so they are more interactive and its easier to make changes in the project. Although they are two antagonistic approaches in what concerns principles, characteristics and processes, this is an attempt to understand if there can be an interaction or complementarity between them. This study is based on my professional experience all over the years and it seeks to demonstrate if it is possible to use both approaches in a business context.