Project Management - Migration from Waterfall to Agile methodology and its impact

Antonio-Ante Šerić

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Choosing the right management approach is a challenge for many companies. Maintaining a positive culture, creating a sense of well-being among the team members, and allocating time more effectively may all be achieved by selecting the appropriate project methodology. There are various methodologies that have different principles from each other, and it is up to the company to choose the most suitable one. Serval internal and external factors can impact the choice of the methodology. Such was the pandemics outbreak. Covid-19 pandemics forced many businesses in different sectors to shift their working online. Such immediate changes require the companies to be more flexible. In order to quickly adapt to these updates, companies need to implement management methodologies that are able to provide the required flexibility. One of the most flexible methodologies is Agile because it gives organizations the capacity to respond swiftly to shifting demands, protocols, technologies, and external circumstances. Adopting Agile principles requires significant modifications to the projects' designs. The adaptation might require more time if the change is done from rigid methodologies like Waterfall.

Keywords

principles, pandemics, Agile, methodology, flexible, Waterfall, rigid, technologies, changes, process

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 4. 4. 2023

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 31. 5. 2023
• Supervisor: Ing. Richard Selby, Ph.D.
• Reader: Dagmar Charvátová, externi

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme:
Economics and Management