Diffusion and opinions by Italian non-IT companies concerning Agile Project Management for IT projects

The business world is facing nowadays three big tendencies: • the proliferation of IT systems, useful to sustain business in a plenty of ways; • the projectification, that is the recent trend to operate the business activities through projects, especially the ones which add something new to the life of the companies; • increased speed of every aspect of business, driven by new technologies. Agile Project Management methodologies could be the right answer to all these issues, but it is needed that these are used in a proper way; indeed, these methods, despite of what is sometimes believed, will be effective only if their rules are strictly followed and consistently enforced. The main goal of this thesis is to examine the current utilization of the Agile methodologies for IT projects by Italian companies, both in terms of quantity (how much is used) and quality (how is used). Finally, an interpretation of the results will be done, suggesting different proposals for the enhancement and the refinement of Agile project management methodologies.