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Making a Case for Agile Project Management
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
If ever there were an ideal time to make the leap from a traditional to an agile project management approach, it’s now. In this tense, uncertain, cost-cutting environment where CIOs are watching their bottom lines like hawks, the concept unfailingly proves successful. It not only delivers consistent, excellent results on time, but often under budget.
Leonardo Mattiazzi, vice president of international business for Ci&T--a Campinas, Brazil-based IT consulting company with offices around the globe--says that there is little question that the agile approach makes sense when companies are compulsively watching their bottom lines. Yet from a big-picture perspective, Mattiazzi insists that agile makes sense regardless of the economic climate. Simply, it translates to a sound, sturdy and unfailingly reliable project management approach. In fact, Ci&T stakes its reputation on the PM methodology.
The IT consulting company has been using agile methodologies for only two years, yet 80 percent of the firm’s projects use the agile framework, says Mattiazzi. “By year’s end, it will be used for all projects,” he says.
There are sound, irrefutable reasons behind this thinking, says this seasoned PM. “Projects using agile methodologies are about 25 percent less expensive than projects using traditional methodologies,&…
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