A maturity evaluation model for implementing agile management in Iranian building companies with respect to identifications of its challenges

Abstract

Agile management originally introduced in development of software projects in computer industry but it is applied in different non-software projects because of its success in managing projects. This approach contains some different tools and techniques for working with the dynamic and changeable environment of projects. According to the previous attempts, some investigators believed that the agile management is useful for construction projects and some others do not agree with this statement. The purpose of this paper is, firstly, to identify the challenges of implementing the agile management in the building companies in Iran and the second one is to prepare a model for evaluating the level of the maturity of a company for implementing agile management. The field studies and distributing questionnaires will be applied for the first objective of this paper and for the next purpose, evaluating the maturity level of companies, the authors will use one of the multi-attribute decision making models named TOPSIS. The results show that the level of the maturity of companies should be surveyed separately in each company in three different parts including: engineering, procurement and construction. It means that the level of maturity in these phases is different.

Keywords

• project management
• agile management
• building companies
• maturity
• topsis