Comments on: Small Steps Are Good; Be Careful What You Call Those Steps

By: Agile Projects Need Full Commitment - PM Hut

Agile Projects Need Full Commitment - PM Hut — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:27:17 +0000

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By: سیاره مدیریت پروژه فارسی » Blog Archive » Plunge In or Dip Your Toe? (for Managers)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:24:23 +0000

[...] the Small Steps and Plunge In posts, I said projects should transition to agile all the way. But does it work the [...]

By: Pradeep Bhanot

Pradeep Bhanot — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:40:42 +0000

Johanna,
I too am a proponent of incremental development strategies having practiced them for decades.

Agile is more than a fad. I have seen it used with success in projects that take a hybrid approach by using traditional methods to structure the macro project plan, but employ agile for key deliverables that are time critical and require intense customer participation.

As you state, traditional development methods are maturing to adopt continuous build and integration and have started to pass more builds to QA at earlier stages of development to save time, but that is not enough to be termed agile.

By: rick

rick — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:01:59 +0000

There are at least 2 reasons to be picky about terminology:

1) “Why isn’t this agile stuff working?” – from management if a partially implemented process isn’t producing the results promised by agile.

2) Clarity when hiring and training people. Don’t insist on new hires having experience with agile when you’ve not moved to agile. Makes you look foolish and starts the off with the thought “these people don’t know what they’re talking about” or “will say anything to sound good.”