Topic Teasers Vol. 167: Is It Change, or Sloppy Practices?

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  Agile   Change Management   Scrum  

We are an organization that has both manufacturing type teams and those who do more software-oriented things. Management really wants us to do things that are more similar in the way we manage projects. Since what we do doesn’t really lend itself to a single approach to the work we need to complete, how can we set up something that works for both parts of the organization​?

A. The reason PMI has been successful internationally is because of the five process groups: initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Even though the PMBOK® Guide—Seventh Edition doesn’t stress them, they are still mandatory for a project to achieve the goals of time, budget, and scope…which lead to quality.

B. If you are using an agile approach, it is important that your team be respectful of the reason this type of project management has been successful. In fact, when it first came out, many organizations didn’t find it gave them value. But once they learned to stay true to each and every tenant of the practice, it has been a transformative technique. All teams must use agile for a corporation to achieve profitability.

C. As the workplace and marketplace change, even PMI realizes that the processes we …

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