The Agile Key

Dr. Rico has been a leader in support of major U.S. government agencies for 25 years. He's led many Cloud, Lean, Agile, SOA, Web Services, Six Sigma, FOSS, ISO 9001, CMMI and SW-CMM projects. He specializes in IT investment analysis, portfolio valuation and organizational change. He's been an international keynote speaker, presented at leading conferences, written six textbooks and published numerous articles. He’s also a frequent PMI, APLN, INCOSE, SPIN and conference speaker. For more see davidfrico.com.

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Agile project management continues to gain momentum as an early 21st century approach for managing the development of innovatively new products and services. It is a lightweight, flexible and highly adaptable yet disciplined approach that is particularly well-suited for high-risk, time-sensitive and often complex research and development-oriented projects.

The agile project management paradigm is based on large doses of customer collaboration and interaction. It is also based on intensive teamwork between project participants and frequent delivery of working products and services at regular intervals. Even more importantly, it is based on responding to changing customer and market needs rather than rigid prescriptive plans.

At the heart of agile methods is the key tenet that teams and teamwork are better than individual contributions and effort. (Try to remember what’s at stake: high-risk, time-sensitive, research and development-oriented, often complex products and services!) The Agile Manifesto assumes that teams are required to create complex new products and services--and they can do so faster:

• Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
• Build projects around motivated individuals, give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
• The best architectures, requirements …

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