The landscape of project management methodologies can seem a bit overwhelming.
Whether you have a formal project management certification or you’re learning to become a project manager from experience, there’s an absolute smorgasbord of project methodologies to choose from. And they often come with their own rules, lists, principles, and endless acronyms.
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The Waterfall method is a traditional approach to project management. In it, tasks and phases are completed in a linear, sequential manner, and each stage of the project must be completed before the next begins. |
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Agile project management methodologies usually involve short phases of work with frequent testing, reassessment, and adaptation throughout. |
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Scrum methods usually split work into short cycles known as “sprints”, which usually last about 1-2 weeks. |
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Kanban methodologies work in which tasks are visually represented as they progress through columns on a kanban board |
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| The methodology of scrumban is that instead of deciding which task from the backlog to work on in each sprint at the outset (like you would in a “traditional” scrum framework), scrumban allows teams to continuously “pull” from the backlog based on their capacity (like they would in a kanban framework). |