  The objectives of this study was to bring out the understanding of the
concept of agile IT project management; what it is and what it is not. It was
also aimed at comparing the pros and cons of both agile and traditional methods
of IT project management in a typical industry setting; the challenges of going
purely agile, and so on. It is purely a review of literature of peer reviewed
papers sourced mainly from Google Scholar. It was revealed that agile outweigh
the traditional methods in terms of benefits, but its implementation poses a
lot of challenges due to a number of issues, paramount among them being
organizational culture and empowerment of the project team. This has resulted
in a number of industries sticking to the traditional methods despite the
overwhelming benefits of agile. In another school of thought, the combination
of the two paradigms is the way forward.
