Agile Santa

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

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I guess that the “Andy Christmas article” is becoming a bit of a trend--this is the fifth in total and the fourth straight year that I have written one. They are articles that generate quite a few e-mails to me and I thank you for that, but most of all I thank the people at ProjectManagement.com for allowing the frustrated comedian inside of me out once a year--they really are a tolerant group [Editor’s note: true story!].

As usual, please don’t take anything here too seriously, it’s just a bit of fun. But I’ll try and tie it back to a “real” message at the end. Alright, with that said, here we go--Andy’s insane rambling, 2013 version. Journey with me to the North Pole, it’s early January 2013…

“Santa, I’ve got a great idea!”

“Really Rudolph, what is it?”

“How about this year we go Agile for Christmas?”

“Rudolph, what the heck are you talking about? How do you think I get down some of those chimneys? I’m pretty darned agile--I do Pilates every morning, you know.”

“No Santa, you don’t understand, not agile. Agile.”

“Rudolph, you are making less sense than you did that time you got into the fermented oats. For the love of Christmas, please tell me what you are talking about.”

“Okay, …

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