Traditional, agile and lean project management: A systematic literature review

Abstract

This paper presents a systematic literature review about traditional, Agile and Lean Project Management methodologies. A general overview on the methodologies was also made, either on the perspective of the traditional based methodologies or the Lean and Agile methodologies. The systematic literature review (SLR) results revealed more than 3500 papers. After filtering and applying exclusion criteria, just 80 were analyzed. Main findings were that, in spite of some reserves, project management methodologies based on Lean are used. Nevertheless, Agile methodologies are the most used.