Pmp agile practice guide11/10/2023 ![]() ![]() I don’t think this document has gone far enough to address the real “elephant in the room”.This is a great step in the right direction but it’s not the final step to close that gap. Agile and traditional plan-driven project management are two very different ways of thinking and it will be very difficult to fully integrate the two.However, that is a huge gap and there is still a lot more work to be done to create a truly integrated project management approach. Overall, I think this document is well-written and really helps to close the gap between Agile and traditional plan-driven project management.Here’s a brief summary of my review of the Agile Practice Guide: General Comments In the not-too-distant future, any project manager who only knows how to do traditional plan-driven project management and attempts to force-fit all projects to that approach will be at a serious disadvantage. The project manager of the future needs to be proficient in both of these approaches and also know how to blend the two approaches as necessary to fit a given situation. The right approach is to fit the methodology to the nature of the problem rather than just force-fitting a problem to some predefined methodology (whatever it might be). Heavily adaptive (Agile) at the other extreme.Heavily plan-driven (predictive) at one extreme to.There is a continuous spectrum of different approaches ranging from:.Those two areas are actually complementary to each other rather than competitive. There is not a binary and mutually-exclusive choice between “Agile” and “Waterfall” as many people have seemed to think.This strongly reaffirms what I’ve been saying for a long time. What Does This Mean for the Future of Project Management? That is the major purpose that the PMI Agile Practice Guide attempts to serve in my opinion. However, there is some commonality and we need to start to develop a more unified view of these two different worlds. Those two formats are very incompatible with each other in my opinion. It is primarily based on some very simple and succinct principles and values in the Agile Manifesto Agile documentation has a very different and less prescriptive format.To some extent, some (not all) of the practices in PMBOK provide a foundation for a general project management approach It is very detailed and somewhat prescriptive. PMBOK has become well-accepted for many years as the “bible” for a traditional plan-driven approach to project management.Here’s how I see this all fitting together: Here’s how I see these various documents fitting together: I think that is exactly the role that the Agile Practice Guide attempts to fill. See my article on Does PMBOK Version 6 Go Far Enough to Integrate Agile? What is the Purpose of the New PMI Agile Practice Guide?Īgile and traditional plan-driven project management are two radically different approaches to project management that each require significant individual focus however, at the same time, we need to build a much more unified view of these two areas. I don’t believe that to be a realistic way to accomplish that goal at all. They might think that PMBOK version 6 would become a universal guide to both of these areas. I think this is a major step forward to begin to close this gap.Ī lot of people may have thought that integrating these two areas might be as simple as adding more content about Agile to PMBOK version 6. ![]() A major goal of this guide s is to start to develop a more integrated view of these two areas. 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?”įor a long time, PMI has treated Agile and traditional plan-driven project management as separate and independent domains of knowledge with little or no integration between the two. PMI recently published PMBOK version 6 as well as a new document called “The Agile Practice Guide”.
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