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Extreme Project Management: Agile Approaches for Delivering Value in the Face of Volatility
Doug is the author of the landmark book, Extreme Project Management®: Using Leadership, Principles and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility. He works with clients who undertake projects in very demanding environments: those settings that feature high speed, high change, high unpredictability and high stress. Doug has lived in the trenches—from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Beijing, China—with over 275 project teams with budgets that ranged from $25,000 to over $25 million. He is one of the founders of the Agile Leadership Network, an organization dedicated to connecting, developing and supporting great project leaders. He is known for his hard-hitting and humorous keynote speeches that address vital issues facing today’s project-based organizations. You can visit Doug at www.dougdecarlo.com.
No sooner do you say the word “plan” when something else has changed. Today’s software development and systems implementation projects are increasingly falling into the eXtreme zone—that arena of projects that is not only organizationally and technically complex, but also features high speed, high change, high unpredictability and high stress.
The goal of our Extreme Project Management department is to connect you with the growing number of tools, resources and people that can help you succeed in keeping today’s new breed, change-driven projects under control, while delivering value each step of the way.
Delivering value in the face of volatility can be challenging due to our past conditioning. That’s because today’s eXtreme projects defy the ceremony, monumental methodologies and well-intentioned practices of traditional, waterfall-like project management—practices that many of us have grown up with and may not yet be ready to let go. Such approaches work well on projects that feature low speed and low change, but backfire on today’s new breed, eXtreme projects. But, there’s hope.
Out of the Darkness and Into the Light
Up through the late 1990’s I harbored the mistaken belief that one project management approach could be made to work on all projects. So, in my project management training and consulting practice, I preached the gospel of traditional project …
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