IT Project Management Method Trends

Traditional methods were introduced in order to face the ascending complexity of software development. Plan-oriented and generally heavy-weighted, these methods have been loosing advocates in favour of new methods called Agile. These methods present certain limitations when it comes to critical projects and big teams. To benefit from both methods’ strengths and to palliate their weaknesses, Hybrid methods appeared. This paper aims to present different traditional, agile and hybrid project management methods, provide a comparison between traditional and agile methods and discuss the problem of the choice of the method to adopt for a given project.