Project management has become a paramount tool in project development, regardless the sector or size of a project, Project Management Methodologies (PMM) is employed to enhance the probability of meeting the project targets. According to the recent trend of using the agile approach on different types of projects, it becomes obvious to say that there are two opposite flows - traditional and agile project management approach. The paper starts with a presentation of the traditional approach and the agile movement. It provides an overview of different methodologies of the two sides. The literature review shows a comparison between the two approaches and what the main characteristics of each methodology are. This study aims in the first instance to provide some criteria to choose the appropriate approach for a project. In the second instance, through a bibliometric analysis to show the synergy between the two movements.

Keywords
Project management, Traditional, Agile, Engineering, Scrum.