Project Management in Digital Supply Chains

Abstract

Agile project management approaches have gained tremendous popularity over the last two decades for managing supply chains. However, there is an ongoing debate as to which approach, the agile or the traditional approach, yields successful supply chains. Agile project management has gained popularity by infusing adaptability, collaboration, and continuous improvement in the supply chains. Agile project management has the advantages of adapting to changing business requirements, utilizing resources efficiently, and creating a constant improvement culture. It is capable of yielding overall success for the project and achieves faster time to market. It also infuses better transparency than traditional project management techniques, as the latter is criticized for being rigid and having minimal stakeholder interaction. The paper discusses the emergence of diverse project management techniques. It highlights the
limitations of the traditional waterfall technique and also discusses the advantages of the emergence of agile techniques. It covers in detail the different agile project management techniques in supply chains such as Kanban, Scrumban and Crystal Techniques, Extreme Programming, Scrum, etc. In conclusion, agile project management supports supply chains through its data-integrated approaches.