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if an organization is using Agile aproach for project management how is dealing with the Vendors that are not in Agile model and with external entities that are also not in agile approach?

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DORA LUZ Mejia CEO| IT Explore Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia
I want to share some ideas about how to integrated the project management when the project is involving multiple vendors and external entities that not all are incorporating agile. I have had that challenge to integrated the project with multiple organizations and vendors that some of them are working in agile others are waterfall. In fact the vendors and organziations that are using agile approach also have multiple differences in their aproaches thanks if you can share ideas about:
1. How to manage and integrated approach? best practices? learning experiences?
2. What kind of standards is having more benefits to use in this case?
3. is program management useful to use in those cases? why?
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DORA LUZ Mejia CEO| IT Explore Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia
May 13, 2019 9:14 AM
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I can't recall a situation when it mattered how my vendors operated- whether they were agile, command and control, or mafia. I needed a specific deliverable (service or product) by a specific date, and we agreed to pay them a specific amount of money to accomplish this. How they managed their end was of little importance to me, as long as they met their contractual obligations.

This is also true for other departments within my organization. My projects may rely on them, but it doesn't matter how they're managed, so long as we all meet our commitments. to each other.
thanks for your contribution . in that sense is more important to take the approach of hybrid and having clear the deliverables for each party and not having unique single agile aproach losing the deliverables commitment for each party and the global interactions, objetives and plan.
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May 13, 2019 3:16 PM
Wade Harshman
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You don't need to have a hybrid approach. You should not have to alter your organization to accommodate your vendor. You only need to carefully review your statement of work and coordinate closely with your vendor. This is true regardless of the agility of your organizations.
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Wade Harshman Scrum Master| GDIT Indianapolis, In, United States
May 13, 2019 3:03 PM
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thanks for your contribution . in that sense is more important to take the approach of hybrid and having clear the deliverables for each party and not having unique single agile aproach losing the deliverables commitment for each party and the global interactions, objetives and plan.
You don't need to have a hybrid approach. You should not have to alter your organization to accommodate your vendor. You only need to carefully review your statement of work and coordinate closely with your vendor. This is true regardless of the agility of your organizations.
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DORA LUZ Mejia CEO| IT Explore Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia
May 13, 2019 3:01 PM
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thanks for your contribution.
Thanks. It is a good rule of thombs to review.
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