Agile, an organizational placebo

Abstract

We live in a rapidly changing world, this is making organizations look to alternative tools and techniques to manage their endeavours in order to survive in the market and generate an effective competitive advantage. Projects are an essential part of any business, they live in an organizational environment and —usually, have some well-defined ways for their management. Agile is one of the most used approaches to manage projects, the software industry usually makes use of this type of methodologies or practices; Scrum being the most adopted one. The impact of agile, and Scrum, is leading organizations to use agile practices in areas other than software development. The aim of this research is to generate sufficient reliable information towards better decision making regarding the adoption of Agile to manage projects and even entire organizations. To achieve such an objective, the research is based on comparative research and experimental design.