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Is agile still in practice?

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Josh Nicholson Customer Success Manager | Project Management Tools| nTask Ca, United States
Is agile methodology still practiced today? What are some other project management methodologies?
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Kimberly Chavez Platform Program Manager, Integration| Brightspeed Overland Park, Ks, United States
It is still in use. I think there are hybrids of it employed on a lot of levels though. Six Sigma/Lean Six Sigma is still out there. What types of projects largely determine the best course of approach.
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Aug 31, 2019 6:32 AM
Josh Nicholson
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I agree. It totally depends on the type of project. Though, I think agile is most common in the tech sector.
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Justus N Scrum Master| BCBSTX Arlington, Tx, United States
Agile is very much alive.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Agile is not a methodology. What you will find are methods based on Agile.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Josh -

An organization can develop a set of methods which incorporate agile values and principles.

As such there are infinite possible methods based on agile.

PRINCE2 is another set of methods which covers both adaptive and predictive lifecycles.

Kiron
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1 reply by Josh Nicholson
Sep 03, 2019 4:04 AM
Josh Nicholson
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Thanks Kiron. Yes you are right that Prince 2 is effective in project lifecycle management.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Josh

Agile is always there because it is not a methodology but a mindset. Sometimes it’s there in its pure form, sometimes as a Hybrid with predictive approaches. Under Agile falls many frameworks like Scrum, Extreme Programming, DSDM and others.

Like Kiron said, PRINCE 2 and PRINCE 2 Agile are for project management in controlled environment that is widely used in UK.

RK
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John Farlik Program & Project Management| SPX FLOW Waxhaw, Nc, United States
Josh,

Our colleagues above have provided some excellent insight to your question. My question back to you is why do you ask? What business situation prompted you to ask this question?
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1 reply by Josh Nicholson
Aug 31, 2019 6:39 AM
Josh Nicholson
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Because nowadays there are other methodologies in place as well like Kanban, Waterfall, Scrum etc. So would like to know if there are agile user here.
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James Shields IS Director - Portfolio Solutions| City and County of San Francisco, SFPD San Francisco, Ca, United States
The keywords about Agile as Kiron pointed out are values and principles. That is what Agile is: A set of values and principles.

When the term methodology is used, it is about a strategy that employs specific methods to be used. And that is not what Agile is.
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Walter Macias Ingeniero Electrónico en Automatización y Control| Corporación Nacional de Electricidad CNEL EP Guayaquil, Ecuador
I would like to understand it but I still can't find it in my organization, I am very traditional
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2 replies by Josh Nicholson and Sergio Luis Conte
Aug 31, 2019 6:37 AM
Josh Nicholson
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I think if an organization is working on multiple projests the using agile methodology or others should be implemented to become productive.
Aug 31, 2019 6:57 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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The problem is Agile demands a transformation. Lot of people talk about it without understand what is the thing to transform. The thing to transform is the whole enterprise architecture which is componsed by business, application, technology, information and security layers. Do you need to discard the actual siloe based architecture? Not at all. What you need to to integrate it in horizontal way.
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Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz RYLAI Access Control Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
Agile is current nowadays with Scrum, Kanban, Lean Techniques. Other enterprises choose to use hybrid methods, combinating agile with cascade form.
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2 replies by Josh Nicholson and Sergio Luis Conte
Aug 31, 2019 6:36 AM
Josh Nicholson
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Hybrid makes sense as Project Managers can best choose a mix of methodology with the project needs.
Aug 31, 2019 6:55 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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You put on the table a great point. Lean and Agile are totally different things in the basement and because of that it is impossible to mix them except that the only thing organizations can use from Lean as a tool is the set of principles. Kanban is a whole method but people thing is kanban board. Kanban is used from long time before in any type of environment for example manufacturing.
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JonAnn White Project Implementation Manager| Trax Technologies Austin, Tx, United States
agree with Josh

Agile is always there because it is not a methodology but a mindset.

Been interviewing and every interview I was asked about Agile.
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1 reply by Josh Nicholson
Aug 31, 2019 6:34 AM
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Thanks JonAnn for the heads up.

Yes Agile is much popular still today. I agree that it's a mind set.
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