AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT REINVENTED: A COGNITIVE TWIN APPROACH TO CYBER RESILIENCE

The present paper suggests a new path towards improving cyber resilience in Agile Project Management (APM) via incorporating the Cognitive Digital Twins (CDTs). Since the nature and amount of cyber threats are increasingly becoming sophisticated and frequent, reacting remedies used in traditional security is ineffective, particularly in agile and changing environments. CDTs, intelligent replicas of workflows and systems that AI powers, provide real-time simulation, threat forecasting, and autonomous response. Implementing CDTs within agile cycles will provide situation awareness and decision support to agile teams to facilitate proactive risk management without interrupting the sprint velocity. This paper simulates an agile development project by integrating CDT-based security monitoring. The results prove that the speed of threat detection, response coordination, and the continuity of the whole sprint are measurably improved. Finally, live cyberattack exercises are examples of adherence to the principles of agility, including flexibility, openness, and iteration to CDTs. The visual representations of data also support this model. The results indicate that CDT-enhanced agile systems are an essential milestone in sane execution practices of projects as there is a dynamic, intelligent framework scalable to organizations in high-risk digital systems.