The effectiveness of implementing agile project management : a systematic literature review

Purpose: The paper's primary goal is to provide a concise summary of the key challenges associated with agile project management (APM) and how these challenges affect the overall effectiveness of APM. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a systematic literature review (SLR) methodology to synthesize research rigorously. Two hundred papers were identified in the first step, and a final sample of 95 paper studies was synthesized. Findings: The findings of this study reveal a total of 677 factors from various papers that have been classified into four distinct categories: customer, organizational, team, and project management methodology (PMM). The primary obstacles to implementing APM encompass knowledge, culture, characteristics, support, and communication. Research limitations/implications: Further analysis still needs to be done to explore how to overcome challenges in implementing APM. Originality/value: This study will be used as a reference as a starting point for further qualitative and quantitative studies to explore the effectiveness of APM.