RESEARCH
THE AGILE PROJECT MANAGER COMPETENCIES DEMANDED BY INDUSTRIES
THE INCREASINGLY DYNAMIC AND COMPLEX WORLD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT HAS SEEN THE RISE OF AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT (APM) AS AN INCREASINGLY ATTRACTIVE APPROACH FOR MOST INDUSTRIES.
APM is a mindset and cultural shift, defined and guided by shared values and self-managing team principles. APM is a collaborative approach of people, tools, and processes. It can include methodologies such as Scrum and extreme programming (XP). Compared to a traditional ‘waterfall’ approach, APM has a 28% higher success rate, allows a 37% faster timeto-market and a 16% higher productivity rate. 34
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Organisations in Australia and globally are increasingly recruiting project managers to implement APM methods, manage and lead Agile teams, and complete projects successfully. Therefore, Agile Project Managers (AgPM) must understand and expand their diverse set of competencies to successfully manage this approach. In the Agile Project Guide of PMI (2017), the role and competency requirements for
