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Paper Abstract
The concept of Agile Project Management is very rapidly evolving and will have a significant impact on the project management profession
and cause us to rethink many things we have taken for granted about what “project management” is for a long time.
However, we are in the very early stages of that transformation and there is a lot of confusion that exists in today’s world between
the Agile and traditional plan-driven Project Management communities and many people see them as competitive and mutually-exclusive alternatives.
Some of the factors that contribute to this confusion are:
- Many stereotypes and misconceptions exist about both Agile and traditional plan-driven project management
- Agile and traditional plan-driven project management principles and practices have been treated as separate and independent domains of knowledge with very little or no integration between the two
- Agile and “waterfall” have been treated as binary, mutually-exclusive alternatives and many people make the mistake of force-fitting a project to one of those extremes
It’s no wonder that project managers and others might be confused by all of this!
A large portion of closing the gap that exists
between the Agile and traditional plan-driven project management communities can be attributed to a mindset change that includes:
- Getting past a number of stereotypes and misconceptions that exist about both Agile and traditional project management
- Broadening our thinking about what “project management” is
This paper will help you unravel the confusion that exists and see Agile and traditional plan-driven project management principles and practices in an entirely new light as complementary to each other rather than competitive.
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