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By Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin
Agile and traditional PM: for most organizations, it can’t be either/or. Both/and is the way to go.
If you had been a fly on the wall during the early meetings of a team that met weekly last May to update the PM Maturity Model, you would have heard quite a bit of passionate talk about how – or if! – project management and agile can work together.
“But that’s not pure agile …”
“Oh, brother. I knew somebody was going to say ‘pure agile.’”
You’ve been there, probably. But our task on that team was to find a way to help organizations that have attempted a hybrid path to gauge how that “agile transformation” is going, alongside of measuring the more traditional process maturity. And, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention.
The impetus for this dual update/revision was twofold: we were responding partly to the needs expressed by some clients of our consulting practice, and partly to the strong trend we saw in our 2018 research study, The Adaptive Organization. That study indicated that the most successful organizations were pursuing a hybrid strategy for adding agility to their projects. It also showed that those organizations who were having the most success with agile projects also scored high in traditional PM capability. Hmm. That would seem to indicate that a marriage between these two is not only possible, but beneficial. And, given the focus in the new PMBOK Guide, 7th Edition on results, not processes, it would seem the time is right to ramp up a dialogue about how we can use everything that works to bring home the best business outcomes.
Join the Discussion on 25 March at 10:45 a.m. ET
Are you interested in learning more about how we bridged this divide in the new maturity model? While the model itself is already in use, and the book based on it is scheduled to be released in April by CRC Press, I look forward to sharing my experience and answering your questions along with my colleague, Sydni Neptune, one of the Agile SMEs from the team. Should be fun! Join us by registering today for PMXPO. This event is complimentary for PMI members; non-members can attend for $29 and take advantage of the full suite of live and on-demand offerings.
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Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Heather
After reading this teaser, which seemed very interesting, I was even more excited about the March 25th event
Thanks for sharing
Alok Priyadarshi
Project Manager| Tata Consulting Engineers Limited
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Thank you Heather !! Looking forward for exciting sessions in PMXPO.
Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Interesting,thanks Jeanette and Heather
Paphatpisit Klinklan
Regional Sourcing and Operation Manager| Krones (Thailand) Co., Ltd
Samutprakan, Thailand
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