Priya PatraDelivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services LtdMumbai, India
Now is the time for the SMART and interconnected things ( IoT), this number of interconnected devices is set to grow exponentially.An unprecedented explosion of data in multiple formats is coming our way and will impact our projects. How do you think we will need to manage our projects, will the traditional project management practices work. What do you think would be the next frontier in project management. Waterfall -Agile-DevOps Agile - Now What ? Saving Changes...
Devops Agile is the way to go for now and continue to be some more time. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
The only way to be succeful is to understand that we need to separate discipline, process, approach, method. Project management will be at PMI way if you follow the PMI. On the other side, you can take a life cycle to follow (waterfall for example) or a method based on the life cycle, After that, you can apply the approach you want. For example, you can apply agile approach using a waterfall life cycle. So, that is critical to understand. If you take the PMBOK and you take any agile software development method you will see that all stated inside the PMBOK is addressed. What changes? Perhaps the use of some techniques that will help to make the process more agile, understanding that agile is a way of thinking an behaive with focus in quality and the client. So, we need to understand that the big mistake we can do is to mix all those things: life cycle, method, approach, discipline. Saving Changes...
Priya PatraDelivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services LtdMumbai, India
@Sergio. Well said, so we project managers keep doing what we are doing, but how we approach it matters ! Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Sure Priya. In fact, to take my last work place as example, we have five different life cycles defined to do things and we take one depending on a checklist. One of those life cycles is based on SCRUM. So, I firmly believe and I can sustain it, that to be successful each time you start an initiative one of the critical things to make is to select one approach, one life cycle, one discipline to apply and one method. All of that after making an enterprise analysis activity (now the name is needs analysis or strategy analysis depending on you follow the PMI or the IIBA) Saving Changes...
saurabh mahajanPMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafonePune, Maharashtra, India
Agree with Sergio and as reiterated by Priya - "...but how we approach it matters"
I recently had this experience. We were working on enhancing customer experience about our services (were aiming for delivery excellence). So we started our journey by typically looking at loopholes, managing risk of ambiguous information, disorientation of customers, etc,etc. So if you see these same things are being managed since last so many years as part of project management stuff and I am sure you all must have also at some of time in your career must have come across it. However the important thing to mention here is the way (technique) we did it this time. We used customer journey map to get into customer's shoe and see the impediments from their perspective.
So this time the approach we took was different. I then realized that way of handling service delivery is same, we are thinking in the same manner for improving it, but the approach is different, the technique we used was new for us. I am sure this is how slowly but surely approach for doing project management stuff will also change though the basics would be the same. Saving Changes...
Michael AdamsSolutions Architect| LANLLos Alamos, Nm, United States
There are a variety of things to consider in this discussion:
1) The type of project matters. If you are doing a software implementation, a traditional plan, execute sort of approach might be the most beneficial.
2) If you are working on an innovation project, then an agile approach is going to be more valuable
Regardless, when we start discussing the IOT, there are risk considerations that people are glossing over. Cyber-Sec is a growing industry, and it will be more important with the threats faced by interconnected infrastructure.
With major world powers investing in cyber-warfare programs, with the rise of a cyber-terrorism threat, cyber-sec is something that many/most organizations are overlooking and at their great peril.
As we've seen the recognition that project BAs are vital, so too will we see that a project leader in the role of cyber-sec risk analyst who works closely with the BA and the PM is essential to long term viability. Saving Changes...
Surendar EnduriPMP| Ogilvy PennyWise SolutionsHyderabad, India
Thank you all for different views in this interesting topic.
Just want to bring another perspective into this discussion. We see a shift from a slow & steady, proven methodologies to an experimental based approaches like DevOps being considered for large scale projects.
With the advent of these newer methodologies, it is essential for project managers to keep abreast of latest technologies and know the trends. The importance of PMI's PM triangle is even more evident in this area of evolving paradigms . Project manager may not be able to control without the technical know how in the DevOps area. Similar there is a strategy involved in adopting it and the leadership skill would help drive this throughout the projects.
As stated by other members, the basics are more important. Just know the concept, follow the basics and apply the right technique. Saving Changes...
Kevin ColemanSubject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - InsightsPa, United States
The overall size of the IoT market space and the projected impact requires a speed that is often not obtainable by many if not most organizations. Saving Changes...
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