Comments on Better Projects: The Myth of Agile Project Management

I look at "agile project management" as being a mi...

2007-08-03T07:44:13.079+10:00

I look at "agile project management" as being a mindset more than formal methodology....although Jim Highsmith might disagree with me. I may change my mind on this once I read his Agile Project Management book though. :)

I agree, that project management already exists re...

2007-08-03T06:09:29.068+10:00

I agree, that project management already exists regardless of the methodology.

Agile practices, however, introduce the need of managing these short cycles of development called iterations - Iteration Management.

On smaller projects, often a Project Manager is an Iteration Manager as well. Even on the outward looking side (towards the client) where a PM concentrates her/his attention to, the frequency at which the iterations play themselves may change a few practices around communication and the payload of the communication. Progress of the team is reflected using a bit more sophisticated yet meaningful concepts like velocity, load factor, etc.

So, I guess, what I am trying to say is that Agile requires to manage iterations and forces a PM to change their pace and nature of communication in a certain fashion. That's all there's to Agile Project Management.

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2007-08-02T17:27:52.579+10:00

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