Going Agile, Part II

Janis Rizzuto - April 7, 2010

Janis is an award-winning journalist and editor who has covered many industries beyond project management, including health care, financial services, higher education and retail sales.

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The worlds of classic project management and contemporary agile development are not as far apart as some practitioners seem to believe. In the second part of our series, two respected agilists share tips for realizing Agile’s benefits on a variety of projects by building understanding among stakeholders and within organizations.

“The agilists don’t need to hate on the PMs, and the PMs don’t need to think the agilists don’t know what they are doing.” So said Dave Prior, a senior consultant at Valtech, an international agile consulting company, in part one of our two-part series “Going Agile.” Projects@Work talked to Prior and Rodney Bodamer, a program manager at Agilex Technolgoies, to get their views of how project management professionals can come to better understand agile methods and lead successful agile projects. In part one, they focused on project managers and teams.

Here, in part two, they focus on project stakeholders and organizations, along with suggestions about which types of projects might be best to try and examples of agile success.

THE STAKEHOLDERS

Be honest about owners’ increased involvement.

A lot of project owners get excited about the improved results available via agile methods — until they learn that they have to be more available than before, …

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