Overview
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 smörgåsbord of project methodologies to choose from. And they often come with their own rules, lists, principles, and endless acronyms.
PM Methodologies
| Method |
Description |
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| Waterfall |
The Waterfall method is a traditional approach to project management. In it, tasks and phases are completed in linear, sequential manner, and each stage of the project must be completed before the next begins. |
Yes |
| Agile |
Agile project management methodologies usually involve short phases of work with frequent testing, reassessment, and adaptation throughout. |
Yes |
| Scrum |
Scrum methods usually split work into short cycles known as "sprints", which usually last about 1-2 weeks. It is an agile framework with a small set of rules that emphasize team collaboration. |
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| Kanban |
Kanban methodologies work in which tasks are visually represented as they progress through columns on a kanban board. It is not a process, framework, or method. it is a commitment to a set of principles to visualize work, limit work in process (wip), focus on flow, and continuous improvement. |
Yes |
| Scrumban |
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). |
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