Introducing Agile Project Management Strategies in Technical and Professional Communication Courses

Pope-Ruark, Rebecca

doi:10.1177/1050651914548456

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“…Project management has not often been discussed or formally researched as a form of writing or documentation within writing studies, except as an aspect of technical communicators’ practice (e.g., Hackos, 2007; Lauren, 2018) or technical and professional writing pedagogy (Pope-Ruark, 2015); yet, at the same time, it is arguably the single most essential site for coordinating and enabling the large-scale projects of big science. When “big” is understood to mean “expansion on many axes” (Galison & Hevly, 1992, p. 2), meaning that projects might have impact on whole regions, budgets of millions or billions of dollars and depend on the investment of multiple nations, the sheer complexity of coordinating this many often competing stakeholders against a fixed budget and time frame becomes apparent.…”

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How to Build a Supercomputer: U.S. Research Infrastructure and the Documents That Mitigate the Uncertainties of Big Science

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In this article, I argue that technical reporting and documentation processes function to mitigate uncertainty and enable complex systems in the endeavor of big science. The argument draws on two years of field research investigating technical reporting and documentation processes at a federally funded supercomputing center dedicated to scientific research. A central question the study sought to answer was, “How does one build a new supercomputer?” One of the answers that emerged is that supercomputers are built by the genre assemblages of documents that mitigate financial, political, and technological uncertainties, and their attendant risks, that are inherent to technoscientific cutting-edge enterprises. Given their centrality, these genre assemblages function as essential infrastructure for the U.S. national laboratory system and for big science endeavors in general. In conclusion, this article argues that documentation that mitigates uncertainty serves an important infrastructural function for organizational life more generally.

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“…Other authors also refer to the Agile model with its versions, advantages and risks, but only theoretically (Ashisdeep et al, 2016;Chandra, 2015;Chandrasekara, 2017;Krishna et al, 2012;Maximini, 2018;McHugh et al, 2013;Pope-Ruark, 2015).…”

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Opportunities and Risks of the Agile Software Development Management in the IT Field. Case study: IT Companies between 2009-2018

Maassen¹

2018

RMCI

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The IT sector has been one of the most active and dynamic fields, stimulating innovation and research for multiple fields in the last fifty years. As customer needs and competition requirements are changing, the software development models of the IT companies have also evolved, especially in the direction from a static (Waterfall) to an dynamic perspective (Agile), by involving customers and stakeholders directly into the production process. The main objective of the paper is to analyze specific characteristics of the Agile model implemented in IT companies between 2009-2018. As a methodology the Delphi method based on interviews and questionnaires was used in order to obtain an overview of the subject from IT specialists using the Agile model. The results indicated a clear orientation towards the Agile model as a main method of the software development in the IT sector.

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“…The capability of this approach to respond to change resulted in a widespread interest in the agile approach [7]. By contributing to rapid development and adaptive systems [1], [8], the agile approach has transcended to projects outside the confines of the software domain to marketing, management, or engineering [9], [10]. More aptly known as APM, this approach to managing projects reduces, or in the very least manages, complexities in projects [11].…”

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Agile Project Management: A Systematic Literature Review of Adoption Drivers and Critical Success Factors

Noteboom

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Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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With an emphasis on adaptive processes that respond to uncertainties, the Agile Project Management (APM) approach has evolved the way projects are managed beyond the traditional processes. This study aims to investigate recent literature on APM to discover the adoption drivers and the critical success factors that influence APM success and provide recommendations for the development of APM best practices. The study conducted a literature search on academic databases ABI/Inform, ACM Digital Library, EBSCO Host, and IEEE Xplore with keywords 'agile' and 'project management' for peer-reviewed English language articles published between January 2015 and January 2020 to discover insights regarding adoption drivers and critical success factors. Eleven (11) drivers of adoption and thirteen (13) critical success factors related to the project dimensions of Project, Team, and Culture were discovered. The findings of this study outline the current state of APM adoption and use and is relevant to project management practitioners and researchers.

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Introducing Agile Project Management Strategies in Technical and Professional Communication Courses

Cited by 31 publications

References 16 publications

How to Build a Supercomputer: U.S. Research Infrastructure and the Documents That Mitigate the Uncertainties of Big Science

How to Build a Supercomputer: U.S. Research Infrastructure and the Documents That Mitigate the Uncertainties of Big Science

Opportunities and Risks of the Agile Software Development Management in the IT Field. Case study: IT Companies between 2009-2018

Agile Project Management: A Systematic Literature Review of Adoption Drivers and Critical Success Factors

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