There has been a lot of polarization between the traditional project management community and the agile community over Agile and Waterfall. There is a perception that project managers and project management are associated with the Waterfall approach. As a result, some people believe that project management skills are not needed at all because the Waterfall approach is an out-of-date approach for many projects.
We need to see Agile and Waterfall in a fresh new perspective as complementary to each other rather than competitive and learn how to blend the two approaches together in the right proportions.
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Agile Versus Waterfall How many times have you heard people compare Agile versus Waterfall? But, if you really think about it, I don’t think that’s a very meaningful comparison and it’s out-of-date. The result of this confusion is people tend too see these two alternatives as binary and mutually-exclusive choices and they try to force-fit […]
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