Projects are regarded as a typical post-taylorist form of work. However, they often show contradictions between claims of creativity and bureaucratic reality. This is one of the reasons why agile project management has gained importance since the Agile Manifesto (2001), both within the IT sector, where it was developed, and increasingly in other industries and activities. The core ideas of agile project management franeworks, as Scrum, include a reduction of documentation, a far-reaching self-organization of teams, and an orientation to quick work results and to coordination processes with customers. This paper presents outlines of the concept of agile project management and empirical research of stress factors and relief factors in agile procject management. It goes on to show how agile processes, e.g. sprint plannings, can be used in practice to reduce stress and to boost innovation and efficiency.
agile project management, project management, scrum, sociology of work, empowerment, cooperation, teamwork, collaboration, software development