Agile Project Management has its share of detractors. But we’ve spoken with a few of its backers as well from a variety of backgrounds. There are full-blown “agilistas” out there that can make the case for a project’s management being capably addressed by the agile way; so, too, exists the full-blown project manager who backs agile.
Until now, we’ve mostly been left to wonder what agile PM’s supporters are saying? For those on the outside of this movement, the fuss seems to be large and unaddressed. More worrying is that it may be to your professional benefit to understand just what’s going on with all of it, and the confusion inherent in the practise may leave even more clutter.
We’re here to help you with that. But to understand what stakeholders and project enablers are seeing in Agile, it is indeed essential to understand what project managers that have done it see in Agile. We recently solicited the input from several types of project people. We asked varied styles of practitioner the same set of questions regarding agile PM to get a glimpse into why it was successful for them and how it proved beneficial to them.
And it wasn’t merely a waterfall-versus-iterative line of questioning. We dug deep for fringe effects: consider sector measurement. In part because agile has mostly been synonymous with software development, scepticism is high as to whether or not other sectors can be tailored easily for management of their project. As project managers, we need to know these things…
The rest of this article is available from the October edition of our monthly project management & recruitment issues newsletter, Project Management Tipoffs. The issue’s main theme tackled agile project management, so give the article and the remainder of our issue a look for some insight on what has to date been a rather confusing subject! To get Project Management Tipoffs, be sure to subscribe – it’ll land in your inbox on the third Thursday of each month!
The November issue tackles money within project management – specifically, salary and day rate trends in PPM, plus the correlation between accreditation and compensation!
