Priya PatraDelivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services LtdMumbai, India
This is in continuation with the PMI Xchange discussion at the PMI Global Congress 2015, I had with a group of very bright attendees.. Organization Agility
In this discussion we talked about internal and external factors that can affect organizational Agility. Internal factors were governance, HR process, quality and delivery processes.
Any thought son the external factors that can affect organizational agility and what actions that we as project and program managers needs to take to ensure that the organization is truely Agile Saving Changes...
Michael AdamsSolutions Architect| LANLLos Alamos, Nm, United States
Lawrence, I''m neither arguing for or against waterfall or agile. I''m simply highlighting assumptions from the thread, which I find to be erroneous and backing up my assertions. There are projects where Agile is almost certainly preferable. While there are projects where a standard PM approach with progressive elaboration will prove superior. In either case, the PM abs the organization need to be ready for changes to occur. In terms of change management, the term has different meanings. Organizational change requires management to be optimized and accepted. However scope change on an infrastructure or implementation project may require a CCB, where scope changes in a development or innovation project may be more likely to call for examining strategic initiatives or portfolio choices.
This is one area, where I see a distinction between Agile and agility: being agnostic and choosing pm approach based on what best serves a specific project. Agile vs. Waterfall strikes me much the same way as Windows vs. Linux. I love Linux, but it isn''t right for every situation. Sometimes, Windows really is the way to go! Saving Changes...
Kevin ColemanSubject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - InsightsPa, United States
Agility is a term being used in a growing number of topic areas Saving Changes...
