Agile Project Management Implications to Organization’s Performance and Readiness for Digitalization

Medhat Fathy Rashwan; Mohamed Saad

Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2022, 10(4), 233-246
DOI: 10.12691/JBMS-10-4-6

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Agile Project Management Implications to Organization’s Performance and Readiness for Digitalization

Medhat Fathy Rashwan^1, and Mohamed Saad²

¹Doctoral Researcher in Professional Business Administration, Arab Academy for Science, Technology Maritime Transport, Graduate School of Business, Cairo, Egypt

²Professor of the Organizational Studies, British University of Egypt (BUE)

Pub. Date: December 18, 2022

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Medhat Fathy Rashwan and Mohamed Saad. Agile Project Management Implications to Organization’s Performance and Readiness for Digitalization. Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2022; 10(4):233-246. doi: 10.12691/JBMS-10-4-6

Abstract

This study aims to examine the impact of Agile Project Management as one of the prominent Methodologies of projects management on organizational performance as well as the other implications of Agile on projects success and organizational readiness for digital transformation through a real case study for a manufacturing multinational company operating in Egypt that has utilized the Scrum methodology to manage the capacity extensions projects in a fast, dynamic, and Agile way to achieve project success and on turn capture the return on its investments.

Keywords

agile project management, projects success, readiness for digital transformation, organizational performance, multinational companies in Egypt

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