This page contains the most recent articles from the Agile Project Management Academy.
I often see questions on “How do you choose between Agile and Waterfall?” Is There a Binary and Mutually-Exclusive Choice? The typical Agile versus Waterfall question implies that those two are discrete and well-defined alternatives and there is a binary and mutually-exclusive choice between the two. It also implies that there is one “best” methodology […]
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Why is Agile Change Management so important? Implementing an Agile transformation can require a big shift in thinking and possibly also require changing a well-established corporate culture for many companies. That is not an easy thing to do and it requires some skill and planning to do it successfully. The Need for Agile Change Management
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How do you define Agile? I’ve seen a lot of discussions where people have attempted to answer the question of “What is Agile?” with very different answers. Do You Really Mean Scrum? First, there’s a lot of confusion about Agile and Scrum. Scrum is so widely-used as an Agile approach that when many people say
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Many people have asked about “Applying Agile to non-software projects”. I’ve done a lot of that myself in using an Agile book publishing approach for publishing five books. I’ve also used similar techniques in designing and developing numerous online training courses. I thought I would summarize some of the techniques I’ve learned from doing Agile
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Is Agile just a development process? There is still a big gap between the Agile community and the project management profession although much progress is starting to be made to close that gap: There seem to be a lot of project managers who are in “denial” about the influence of Agile on the project management
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What can Physics teach us about Agile Project Management? We can learn a lot from how the science of physics has evolved. I think there are a number of interesting similarities the way that Agile Project Management is evolving. How Has the Science of Physics Evolved? For many years until the late 1800’s and early
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Background PMBOK version 6 and the new PMI Agile Practice Guide signal a new direction for the future of project management. For the first time, PMI has started to integrate Agile and traditional plan-driven project management. What does that mean for the future of project management? What’s the Impact? I’ve written a number of articles
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PMI recently published PMBOK version 6 as well as a new document called “The Agile Practice Guide”. The Agile Practice Guide is a totally new kind of document for PMI and raises some questions about “What is the purpose of the new PMI Agile Practice Guide?” For a long time, PMI has treated Agile
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One of the biggest changes in PMBOK® version 6 is that it has incorporated more guidance about Agile. Does PMBOK version 6 go far enough to integrate Agile? I think that the release of PMBOK version 6 and The Agile Practice Guide is a huge step forward. It is a noble attempt to create
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I have mixed feelings about the subject of “Is PMP certification still relevant in today’s world?”. On the one hand, I am a PMP myself, I have had a PMP certification since 2004, and I’m proud to be a PMP, but I recognize the limitations of a PMP certification. On the other hand, I can
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