Transparency in Project Management – from Traditional to Agile

The article provides a comparative analysis of the transparency phenomenon in different project management methodologies. The key issues of the study are: understanding of transparency in different theoretical paradigms, universal and specific characteristics of transparency, models and types of transparency depending on the type of project, scope of implementation, the regime of accountability, sources of funding, methodology of project management. The research analysis was carried out using the methods of document analysis, secondary data analysis, data integration, benchmarking and case-method. It's has been established that transparency is a necessary condition and tool for project stakeholders' relationship management. The dynamics of the development of the theory and practice of project management -from the classical project management (Project management body of knowledge PMBOK) to the family of flexible iterative-incremental methods of project and product management (Agile) changes the modality of transparency and the processes of its operationalization in the logic of possible and mandatory.